måndag 13 april 2009

Var är alla de andra?

Rubrikens fråga ställdes av nobelpristagaren Elie Wiesel år 2004, han undrade varför de judiska organisationerna var så ensamma i sin kamp mot antisemitismen.
Nu rapporterar European Coalition for Israel i ett pressmeddelande att antisemitiska våldsdåd är på en nivå som inte förekommit sedan andra världskriget.
Under den senaste månaden har man fått uppleva hur ledande politiker i Europa deltagit i demonstrationer där Hamas och Hizzbollahs flaggor vajat fritt. Dessa organisationer arbetar för Israel skall förintas.
Den ekonomiska krisen har också gett ny fart åt gamla konspirationsrykten där judarna utpekas som skyldiga till svårigheterna i världen.

Situationen i Norden beskrevs av ordföranden för Finlands judiska församling, Ronny Smolar, med följande ord:
- “In the Nordic countries the small Jewish communities have been living in relative peace up till now. Now many feel that they are being personally blamed and targeted because of the events in Gaza. Many feel insecure."

- “But the situation is not out of hand. When Jews in the Nordic countries have been targeted in street demonstrations our Christian friends have come to our help”, he said.

Tomas Sandell:“- As faith leaders we have a duty to be “our brothers’ keeper” and cannot keep silent when Jews are again threatened on the streets of Europe”, he said in his speech. He also called upon the European Union, as well as civil society organizations, to withdraw from the planned UN World Conference on Racism in Geneva in order not to legitimize those powers who want to demonize Israel and wipe out the Jewish state from the world map. In the draft resolution, which is being prepared for the UN conference by a working group consisting of, among others, Libya, Cuba and Iran, only one state is singled out as a “racist state”, namely Israel.

Pressmeddelande kan kan läsas här:
ECI director calls for broad coalition against anti-Semitism at European Parliament conference

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