[lit-ideas] 21. century European anti-Semitism
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 07:37:12 -0700 (PDT)
Pro-Israel groups in the US and Europe have campaigned
to suggest the European Union is aflame with a "new
anti-Semitism," and to thereby stifle criticism of
Israel. But recently they've suffered several
setbacks.
A new 344-page study from the European Monitoring
Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) found that
there has been "a noticeable rise in reported
anti-Semitic incidents" in recent years. But contrary
to the findings in a EUMC report produced in late
2003, the new report concluded there was no evidence
that the increase could be attributed mainly to
Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups. Rather, the
largest group of perpetrators was made up of young,
white Europeans incited by traditional right-wing
extremist groups.
The earlier EUMC report was never officially published
because the EU concluded that its methodology was
flawed. Norman Finkelstein, a history professor at
DePaul University and author of The Holocaust
Industry, examined the earlier EUMC report and pointed
out that it defined almost any criticism of Israel as
"anti-Semitic." Examples of anti-Semitism cited in the
earlier report included complaints that someone wore a
keffiyeh at a meeting of the Italian Communist Party,
where books by Palestinians were being distributed.
Greta Duisenberg, the wife of the president of the
European Central Bank, famously unfurled a Palestinian
flag from the balcony of her Amsterdam apartment. This
too was cited in the original report as an example of
anti-Semitism.
The rest of the article is here:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article2582.shtml
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