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Saturday, November 22, 2003

Baghdad Bob says, "there is no anti-semitism in Europe!" 

Posted by Hei Lun : 3:23 PM

The European Union commissioned a report a while ago on anti-Semitism in the EU. What they found was that it does exist, and is practiced mostly by certain specific groups. They didn't like the conclusion, so they decided to shelve the report:

The European Union's racism watchdog has shelved a report on anti-semitism because the study concluded Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups were behind many of the incidents it examined.

The Vienna-based European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) decided in February not to publish the 112-page study, a copy of which was obtained by the Financial Times, after clashing with its authors over their conclusions.
Wouldn't you say that trying to cover up anti-semitic act is, I don't know, anti-semitic?

When the researchers submitted their work in October last year, however, the centre's senior staff and management board objected to their definition of anti-semitism, which included some anti-Israel acts. The focus on Muslim and pro-Palestinian perpetrators, meanwhile, was judged inflammatory.

"There is a trend towards Muslim anti-semitism, while on the left there is mobilisation against Israel that is not always free of prejudice," said one person familiar with the report. "Merely saying the perpetrators are French, Belgian or Dutch does no justice to the full picture."

Some EUMC board members had also attacked part of the analysis ascribing anti-semitic motives to leftwing and anti-globalisation groups, this person said. "The decision not to publish was a political decision."
These were the best excuses the board memebrs who decided to shelve the report come up with:

Ole Espersen, law professor at Copenhagen University and board member for Denmark, said the study was "unsatisfactory" and that some members had felt anti-Islamic sentiment should be addressed too.

The EUMC, which was set in 1998, has published three reports on anti-Islamic attitudes in Europe since the September 11 attacks in the US.

Beate Winkler, a director, said the report had been rejected because the initial time scale included in the brief - covering the period between May and June 2002 - was later judged to be unrepresentative. "There was a problem with the definition [of anti-semitism] too. It was too complicated," she said.
Okay, let me get this straight: they decided to pretend anti-semitism didn't exist in Europe because saying it does might be offensive to Muslims and left-wingers, who are the perpetrators of most of these anti-semitic acts. Isn't that siding with the criminals over the victims? But that's right, some Israeli built a house in the West Bank, so I guess it's all okay that some Jewish school gets firebombed in Paris.

(Via Roger L. Simon)
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