European MP: EU Parliament Ignores Anti-Semitism

Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/11/14 | Hillel Fendel

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European Parliament Member Bastiaan Belder of the Netherlands has urged the parliament to hold a debate on anti-Semitism. "It's a shame that this has not been done before,'' he said.

Belder made his latest comments in an address at the annual conference of the European Coalition for Israel (ECI), a Christian initiative promoting European-Israeli cooperation. The session took place in the European Parliament on Thursday.

Following the synagogue slaughter in Jerusalem last week, the ECI called upon the European Union to halt its funding to the PA until incitement to violence by PA leadership stops.

MP Belder deplored the situation in which ''living in fear is almost normal life for Jews in Europe,'' and denounced what he called the ''Israelisation'' of anti-Semitism. Several speakers stressed that it is dangerous these days to wear a Star of David or a yarmulke in the streets of Europe.

Belder, 68, is a Dutch politician who sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. He also chairs the Parliament’s delegation for relations with Israel and is a Member of the Political Board of the European Friends of Israel (EFI) organization.

This is not the first time Belder has called the European Parliament to task for its passive stance vis-à-vis anti-Semitism. Earlier this year, he said the body “is much too silent on anti-Semitism."

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Churchillian one-liners EU style: Crocodile might eat us last. Time to dig a hole in the sand. I have nothing to offer you, except latte, antiperspirant and tickets to M'bala M'bala's next appearance. If EU bureaucrats live for a thousand years, they will say, 'why have my retirement benefits come to so little?'