Posted on 02/17/2007 8:15:58 AM PST by Grzegorz 246
(BRUSSELS) - A Polish member of the European Parliament has caused outrage among European Jews with a tract saying that Judaism has no place in most of Europe, partly because Jews create their own ghettoes.
Professor Maciej Giertych, a non-affiliated MEP, also caused strong consternation in EU circles, not least because the tract bears the parliament's logo and was available online Friday.
It was first distributed at the assembly in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
In the text, Giertych, father of Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Roman Giertych, denounces the Jewish "civilization of programmed separateness, of programmed differentiation from the surrounding communities", saying that Jews "form the ghettoes themselves".
"It was only Hitler's Germany that created the concept of forced separation," he adds.
"Jews are not pioneers" but migrate from poorer communities to settle among other civilisations "preferably among the rich", he said.
Giertych, a member of the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families party who has a master's degree from Oxford University, argues that in Europe the ideas of "integration, middle ground and the 'melting pot' are not possible".
Most of Europe should keep "the Latin civilisation", he argues in his tract entitled "Civilisations at War in Europe".
The pamphlet "uses the same pre-war racial theories that led to the Holocaust," the European Jewish congress said in response Friday.
The Paris-based group coordinates the 40 elected leaders of national Jewish communities in Europe, encompassing approximately 2.5 million Jews.
It said it reserved the right to bring Giertych to court for the text which "reeks of medieval hate and 19th Century racial stereotyping".
European Commission spokesman Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told reporters that the EU's executive "rejects and condemns any manifestations of anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia".
He said the European Parliament could lift an MEP's immunity from prosecution if a court in a member state brought charges against it.
He added that the Commission was backing an initiative by the EU's current German presidency to make Holocaust denial and incitement to racial hatred a crime.
The parliament's Socialist group voiced shock at the tract, and sought clarification on whether the assembly had funded it.
Parliament spokesman Jaume Duch told AFP said that it had not, saying that "we only reimburse eurodeputies for publication linked to parliamentary activities".
He said it would, however, be necessary to "clarify" the use of the parliamentary logo.
Giertych did not confine his comments to Jewish people, declaring that much of public life is "despotic" in the Muslim world and that "few Muslims know the Koran".
For good measure he also criticised modern Western civilisation, especially the role of women arguing that "the mother must be there (at home)".
http://www.giertych.pl/
The book on a right side.
Every society has its idiots -- many of whom seem to be drawn to politics.
Or, they form ghettos.
He's got all bases covered there.
Poland: anti-Semitism without Jews.
I have not read the pamphlet, but wonder if what really got him in trouble had to do with his comments about Muslims.
But that's nothing unusual, in Israel there's anti-Polonism without Poles.
You would find much more anti-semitists in USA than in Poland.
This idiot would have gladly collaborated with the Nazis.
LOL! The professional anti-Semites are not worried about contradictions since they know that logic is not on their side and they don't care for logic anyway. They know their followers are too dull to follow an argument so they can get away with saying the most stupid things.
"You would find much more anti-semitists in USA than in Poland."
I've read that on a per capita basis, Poland is the most culturally biased against Jews. I don't know if it's true. Do you think that Americans on average are more anti-Semitic?
Supposedly, the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe has led to Naziism having much appeal since it has a connotation of a well-structured society, in contrast to the disorder and/or unemployment of today.
What do you think?
As for what I think: I highly doubt your claim. Unless we're talking about absolute numbers.
Poland is considered the most anti-semitist European country just because we had Auschwitz on our land during 2nd WW. Many people think that Nazis built this camp in Poland because we are Jew-haters, but it's not true. We had the largest Jewish population of all European countries because we were very tolerant nation - apart from Jews we had other religious communities here (e.g. large population of Mennonites near my hometown Gdansk [Danzig]). You don't build ironworks far from the mine...
Nicely put!
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