Helft van Europees antisemitisme komt van radicale islam

Terwijl slechts 4% van de bijna half miljard Europeanen moslim is - zo'n 20 miljoen mensen -, blijken zij acht keer zo vaak als christenen antisemitische sentimenten te koesteren, blijkt uit een recente studie. Dit wil natuurlijk niet zeggen dat niet-moslims vrijuit gaan, of dat alle moslims antisemitisch zijn, maar het bevestigd wel het beeld dat door de Arabische media, uitspraken van islamitische leiders en demonstrerende menigtes naar buiten komt. Onder het mom van solidariteit met de Palestijnen beweert men de meest walgelijke dingen over Joden. Het zou mooi zijn als dergelijke onderzoeksresultaten aanleiding vormen voor een grondig zelfonderzoek, in plaats van aantijgingen van islamofobie of 'zionistische propaganda'.

 

 

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Feb 2, 2008 21:23 | Updated Feb 3, 2008 23:29

EU official: Half of European anti-Semitism related to radical Islam

By HAVIV RETTIG

Some 50 percent of anti-Semitic incidents on the European continent are connected to radical Islamic elements, according to a senior European Commission official.

A photo provided by police shows the words "Jew out" in German, smeared on a gravestone at a Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa, Poland, Monday.
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The figure comes from European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini, who is responsible in the EU for combating racism and anti-Semitism in Europe. Frattini mentioned it in a conversation with Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog last week, and said it was based on European Union reports.

Frattini was in Israel last week for the Second European Union-Israel Seminar for Combating Racism and Anti-Semitism at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem.

Herzog, who is responsible for coordinating government activities in combating anti-Semitism at the cabinet level, told The Jerusalem Post that it was "not new that Frattini relates a large percentage of anti-Semitic incidents to radical Islam, and it's important to say, not Islam as such."

According to Herzog, European governments are responding to this "aggressively," including educating Muslim imams throughout the continent on "European values, principles of democracy, the rights of women and the like."

Besides dealing with the radical Islamic source of a large part of anti-Semitic activity in Europe, European and international institutions are beginning to respond to anti-Semitic discourse through education, according to the minister.