British Government calls summit over rising anti-Semitism

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.religiousintelligence.co....s/?NewsID=3929

Sunday, 22nd February 2009. 6:58am

By: Toby Cohen.

Anti-Semitism has become such a problem that the Foreign Office welcomed nearly 100 legislators from 35 countries to a conference this week aimed at tackling the issue.

The inaugural conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA) is the first of its kind to receive such prominent Government support. The two-day summit was held in the Houses of Parliament and at Lancaster House.

The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said: “Anti-Semitism has been with us for millennia, but has mutated in form and expression through the ages. Today it has adapted to new technologies and has no defined borders.

“The internet age, with its manifold benefits, has the downside that hate is able to travel faster and further than ever before. Modern and innovative solutions are essential if we are to combat this. So is international co-operation.”

Attacks on UK Jews increased following the Israeli offensive in Gaza in December.

Speaking at the event, Irwin Cotler, a former Attorney General of Canada, said: “What we are witnessing today – and which has been developing incrementally, sometimes imperceptibly, and even indulgently, for some 35 years now – is a new sophisticated, globalizing, virulent and even lethal anti-Semitism, reminiscent of the atmospherics of the 30s, and without parallel or precedent since the end of the Second World War.”

France’s Council of State took the opportunity to coincide their formal recognition of the countries role in deporting Jews to concentration camps. While the senior court admitted culpability beyond simple obedience of Nazi demands, they ruled out further reparations for the victims.

[oldpaganfreak]

these days one need only criticize the israeli actions in gaza, to hear screams of anti-semitism. i am not anti-semitic, but i think that the israeli government is evil.

[Czymra]

What's with the protectionism?
Oh right, Israel is god's country.

"Seven Jewish Children" for your reading pleasure. It's short and to the point. Have a look.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/package...shChildren.pdf

[Antaletriangle]

It's not the Jewish people;everyone is equal; it's more the Zionist faction that controls the planet that should be addressed-i'm not anti-semitic but the chances are that any crticism of Israel and it's war hungry regime for control will be taken as anti Jewish and racist.The world appears to have lost it's sense of reason and intelligent dissection of matters at hand.

The link below is taken from the documentary "David Icke: The Lizards and the Jews". The whole program is well worth watching and goes into how the tag "anti-semitic" is used, but a key part relating to the topic being discussed can be found at 7m50s in:

Interviewer: David Icke will put his hand to his heart and say I am not an anti-semite, I have the greatest respect for the jewish people. But the jewish hierarchy, like the muslim hierarchy and the christian hierarchy and so on, they are 12 foot lizards.

ADL Spokesperson: Right.

Interviewer: Does that make him an anti-semite?

ADL Spokesperson: I think it does.

And that's the mindset that means criticism of Israel for its attrocities in Gaza is anti-semitic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zVaO...eature=related (part 2 of 5)

[Northern Boy]

Just another excuse they are going to use to shut down the internet and bring in Internet 2. It`s not anti semitism its being critical of the actions of a rouge government and military in that area . They can not differenciate between the 2 or at least refuse to