Articles
Anti-Semitism or corruption?
By Eliahu Salpeter
Haaretz
Thu., December 16, 2004
The Ukrainian presidential election marred by fraud and canceled by the
Ukrainian Supreme Court some two weeks ago and the new election scheduled
for December 26 posed and will pose a difficult dilemma for the country's
Jews: should they choose the pro-Russian candidate accused of corruption,
or the pro-Western opposition candidate whose surroundings are tainted
with the smell of anti-Semitism.
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The UN shows some balance
By Avi Beker
Haaretz
November 25, 2004
The proposal on the issue of religious tolerance approved Tuesday by the
United Nations - with the inclusion for the first time of a denunciation
of, and concern for, the spread of anti-Semitism - does not express a historical
revolution in the organization's voting patterns. But it certainly does
send a symbolic message that could have diplomatic significance.
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Seventy percent of religious hate crimes directed against
Jews
By Nathan Guttman
Haaretz
November 25, 2004
FBI report reveals no reduction in anti-Jewish hate crimes in 2003.
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A Hungarian tragedy
By Balint Magyar
Haaretz
May 9, 2004
His mother was hunted by the Nazis and many of his relatives were murdered
in Auschwitz. For the first time, Hungary's minister of education talks
openly about his Jewish roots and about the responsibility his nation's
political leaders, intellectuals and society bear to remember and retell
the horrors of the Holocaust.
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France: The Return of Hate
By Marie Valla and Christopher Dickey
Newsweek International
March 1, 2004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4340887/
A concise and clear statement on the recent antisemitic incidents in
France, the considerable public and official expression of concern about
their "growing magnitude", set against the deafening silence
of the vast majority of the population. It focuses on the impact of these
events on French Jewry and their pessimistic outlook on the future. It
also places this in the context of recent opinion polls and similar incidents
in Western Europe. The article does not indicate that anything is being
done to improve the situation, in terms of education, law enforcement
and the like: another damning silence.
Jews in Sweden are afraid to be known as Jews
By Amiram Barkat
February 12, 2004
Daniel Schechner, a 21-year-old law student from Stockholm,
makes sure to conceal even the slightest hint of his Jewishness when he
goes out in public.
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Europe's moral treachery over anti-Semitism,
by Edgar M. Bronfman and Cobi Benatoff,
The Financial Times, January 4, 2004
Anti-Semitism
can be expressed in two ways: by action and inaction. Remarkably, the
European Commission is guilty of both.
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