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Monday, December 1, 2003

The shelved EU report on European anti-Semitism has been leaked to the Jerusalem Post. From the sounds of the JPost report, its contents are about as speculated. I could give a synopsis, but you may as well read the report yourselves. I would think we can look forward to more specific leaks upcoming.

Israel News : Jerusalem Post Internet Edition

..."One can not deny that there exists a close link between the increase of anti-Semitism and the escalation of the Middle East conflict, whereas factors which usually determine the frequency of anti-Semitic incidents in the respective countries, such as the strength and the degree of mobilization extremist far Right parties and groups can generate, have not played the decisive role in the reporting period," the report said.

"Anti-Semitic incidents in the monitoring period were committed above all either by right-wing extremists or radical Islamists or young Muslims, mostly of Arab descent, who are often themselves potential victims of exclusion and racism;" but the report also noted that that "anti-Semitic statements came from the pro-Palestinian left."[...]

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