Posted on 09/03/2006 10:28:59 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
A group of prominent MPs, alarmed at the rise of anti-semitism in Britain, will accuse some left-wing activists and Muslim extremists this week of using criticism of Israel as 'a pretext' for spreading hatred against British Jews.
The charge is made in a hard-hitting report - by MPs from all three major political parties - which will be unveiled at a Downing Street meeting with Tony Blair on Thursday.
The report is published in the wake of an alarming increase in verbal harassment, abusive emails and letters, and even violent assaults on British Jews. The number of incidents that took place in July, which came in the middle of escalating violence in the Middle East, was the third highest on record.
The 10-month inquiry into anti-semitism in Britain was chaired by the former Europe Minister Denis MacShane and included the former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith and the Liberal Democrat environment spokesman Chris Huhne.
Details of the report are being kept confidential until its formal release. However, a draft of the document - seen by The Observer - reveals that incidents of verbal abuse, harassment and violence against Jewish community members and their institutions is reaching worrying levels.
It urges more consistent action by police, prosecutors and the government. All have failed to tackle antisemitism with the same determination as other forms of racism, the report suggests.
The report voices particular concern over 'a minority of Islamic extremists who are inciting hatred towards Jews', and it criticises recent moves by left-wing academics to boycott links with Israel. Though emphasising the right of people to criticise or protest against Israeli government actions, it says 'rage' over Israeli policies has sometimes 'provided a pretext' for anti-semitism.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
Seeing how islamic texts call Jews "Sons of pigs and apes." It is not a minority.
I do believe you are correct.
Actually its all non believers but the Muslims use it to further hatred for the Jews. If the Muslims wiped the Jews out, they would call us the same thing . The Koran text is here http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/005.qmt.html#005.060 , further up it talks how not to take Jews and Christians for friends etc. 005.051
Agreed !
The Jews will have to leave Europe. They should do so soon. Muslims are in the ascendancy all across the continent and no European nation, save perhaps Poland,has the guts to oppose them. Europeans may feel that by sacrificing the Jews they can save their own cowardly hides. Perhaps. But only for a while.........
First the Saturday people and then the Sunday people.
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