EU 'Covered Up'Attacks On Jews By Young Muslims

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 4-1-2004 | Ambrose-Evans Prichard

[blam]

EU 'covered up' attacks on Jews by young Muslims

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 01/04/2004)

Jewish leaders accused the European Union yesterday of covering up the true scale of anti-Semitic violence carried out by Muslim youths, reigniting a controversy over Europe's failure to confront Islamic extremism at home.

A study released by the EU's racism and xenophobia monitoring centre astounded experts by concluding that the wave of anti-Jewish persecution over the last two years stemmed from neo-Nazi or other racist groups.

"The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans," said a summary released to the European Parliament . "A further source of anti-Semitism in some countries was young Muslims of North African or Asian extraction.

"Traditionally, anti-Semitic groups on the extreme Right played a part in stirring opinion," it added.

The headline findings contradict the body of the report. This says most of the 193 violent attacks on synagogues, Jewish schools, kosher shops, cemeteries and rabbis in France in 2002 - up from 32 in 2001 - were "ascribed to youth from neighbourhoods sensitive to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, principally of North African descent.

"The percentage attributable to the extreme Right was only nine per cent in 2002," it said.

The report on Belgium said most of the fire-bomb and machine-gun attacks on Jewish targets were the result of a spillover from the Palestinian intifada.

The European Jewish Congress accused the EU watchdog of twisting data from the 15 member states to suit its own ideological bias, describing the report as a catalogue of "enormous contradictions, errors and omissions."

"We cannot let it be said that the majority of anti-Semitic incidents come from young, disaffected white men. This is in complete contradiction with the facts recorded by the police," it said.

The EU suppressed a report last year by German academics concluding that Arab gangs were largely responsible for a sudden surge in the anti-Jewish violence, allegedly because the findings were politically unpalatable.

Victor Weitzel, who wrote a large section of yesterday's far more detailed study, told The Telegraph that the latest findings had been consistently massaged by the EU watchdog to play down the role of North African youth. "The European Union seems incapable of facing up to the truth on this," he said. "Everything is being tilted to ensure nice soft conclusions.

"When I told them that we need to monitor the inflammatory language being used by the Arab press in Europe, this was changed to the 'minority press'.

"Honestly, it's incredible," he said.

Mr Weitzel's 48-page section - compiled with a Polish academic, Magadalena Sroda - is the fruit of months of interviews with Jewish leaders across Europe. While far-Right and traditional "Christian" forms of anti-Semitism still exist, the report homes in on a new form of "anti-Zionist Left" prejudice.

This demonises Israel and subtly leaks into prejudice against all Jews. The study describes Belgium as a country where anti-Semitism has become almost fashionable among the Left-leaning intelligentsia.

But most of the report focuses on Jew-baiting by Muslim youths. It paints an alarming picture of daily life for France's 600,000 Jews, the EU's biggest community.

In schools, Jewish children are beaten with impunity, and teachers dare not talk about the Holocaust for fear of provoking Muslim pupils, it said.

Britain, which saw a 75 per cent rise in incidents last year, was gently rebuked for hesitating to take "politically awkward" measures against Islamic radicals.

"The government is very anxious not to upset the Muslim community," the report said.

[freeangel]

Hey, if it's Europe, there are no hate crimes against Jews or Christians.

[sheik yerbouty]

They are afraid to offend their new masters, the effendis.

[rageaholic]

why is moslem anti-semitism in Europe and genocide of Christian blacks in Africa ignored by everybody? Yet some Moslems in Bosnia rated a full-fledged police action by the UN and US Army?

I think we're on the receiving end of an enormous PR scam perpetrateed by the arabs.

[Alouette]

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[Klein-Bottle]

The Jews are once again the canaries in the mineshaft.

Today they are attacking Jews; tomorrow it may be French Christians who do not allow girls to wear headscarves in public schools.

If the population trends are not reversed, within my lifetime, there may be a French civil war.

[blam]

" within my lifetime, there may be a French civil war."

How old are you?

[dinok]

As far as Europeans are concerned Jews are wrong no matter how many Jews the Arabs murder.

What do we expect from them? To learn from the past?

Not likely.

[tubavil]

KEY is stopping the Satanic menace before things get to this point.

No islam, no terror.

[expatpat]

No, the real reason is that it is not politically correct to suggest bad things about any minority -- so they have to blame it on the only people that it is possible to criticize: whites.

[Diogenesis]

FLASHBACK: EU LICKS UP TO TERRORISTS

Antisemitic and antiAmerican EU's leaders at an "EU-Meet the Terrorist" queue
to serially drink sputum directly from the lips of the EU's greatest terrorist-hero,
Arafat, serial murderer of hundreds and hundreds of innocent, elderly and children and especially Jews.

PARTIAL LIST OF TERRORIST ACTIVITIES

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on it goes .........

[USF]

EUropistan has it's head firmly in the sand, kidding itself nothing is wrong while practicing self enforced dhimmitude imposed by the loony left gestapos.

[vpintheak]

These UE dummies will pay for what they are doing. Although I disagree theologically with the Jewish people, you don't just mess with God's people and get away with it. There will be justice done after this life is over.

[MrNatural]

.."The government is very anxious not to upset the Muslim community," the report said..

It's not going to stop until the 'Muslim community' becomes 'very anxious' not to upset us.

[Travis McGee]

Welcome to Eurabia. Don't forget to cover your wife.

[jordan8]

The vast majority of victims of hate-crimes at the hands of these immigrants are not Jews, however, they are native Europeans. So deep is the self-loathing amongst the leadership of the West that those far more mumerous victims are never mentioned at all. Just like in the U.S.

[adam_az]

Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

Keep your head down and your powder dry!

[jwalsh07]

Now thats the kind of "Never Forget" I'm talking about.

[Destro]

Hey stupid Euro (and many American) Jews - you backed the Bosnian and Albanian Muslims over the Christian Serbs a people that saved your lives in and endured the concentration camps of WW2 with your kind, all in hopes that the Muslims will learn to love you Jews because of it.

Oops!

I apologoze if this sound offensive but the Jews are not in danger in Europe from Muslims - it is the Orthodox Christians - See the pogrom against the Serbs last week in Kosovo - 30+ killed last week - thousand made homless - dozens of churches burned. That is a real porgrom.

At least Israel sent covert aid to Serbia. You European Jews made your bed don't complain about the new bed bugs.

[canis major]

"Religion of Peace" ping.

[Destro]

Theis scene remind Jews of anything, let's say from movies about WW2? What the SS men used to do over the open pits?

An Albanian man is urinating on the charred ruins of St. George's church in Prizren, Monday, March 22, 2004 as another Albanian immortalizes the moment on his camera-phone. The ruins have also been defiled with graffiti celebrating the KLA ("UCK"). (AP/Pier Paolo Cito)

[YoSoy2]

The vast majority of victims of hate-crimes at the hands of these immigrants are not Jews, however, they are native Europeans. So deep is the self-loathing amongst the leadership of the West that those far more mumerous victims are never mentioned at all. Just like in the U.S.

Excellent!

I tip my hat off to you.

[YoSoy2]

"Now thats the kind of "Never Forget" I'm talking about."

Yes. We will never forget September 11, 2001.

[Guillermo]

If we were simply more tolerant and less xenophobic, the Mohammedans would like us and stop attacking Jews and other non-Mohammedans.

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

It is not their fault. They probably just got through seeing The Passion of the Christ.

[w1andsodidwe]

Last December in Vienna, I was told by a hotel clerk (a native of Munich) that he had vacationed in Egypt, but made sure he didn't wear clothes with American designers as he did not want to be mistaken for an American.

I explained to him that I was a proud American who had done nothing wrong and had no reason to hid.

MY mind flashed to that saying about World War II "They came for the Jews, but I was not Jewish so I said nothing .......They came for me, but there was no one left to speak up for me.

Yes Europe has their head in the sand. I now understand how World War II happened. It is the European who allowed it by pretending it wasn't happening.

[Southack]

Pretty typical EU bureau-bungling...

[expatpat]

Yes, Destro. The Clinton government chose the wrong side in the Balkans. Could it have been bribe money from Saudi Arabia?

[montag813]

"When I told them that we need to monitor the inflammatory language being used by the Arab press in Europe, this was changed to the 'minority press'.

This goes well beyond mere appeasement. Muslims have clearly gained real power within the political offices of the European Union. Jews had better arm themselves immediately. The pogroms are coming.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

"Traditionally, anti-Semitic groups on the extreme Right played a part in stirring opinion," it added.

Socialists are back on the "extreme right" again.

[Southack]

"Hey stupid Euro (and many American) Jews - you backed the Bosnian and Albanian Muslims over the Christian Serbs a people that saved your lives in and endured the concentration camps of WW2 with your kind, all in hopes that the Muslims will learn to love you Jews because of it."

I still haven't figured 1999 out. Clinton and Chirac go to war...WAR...over faked mass graves, with no UN approval...backing the side that is fighting with Iranian Mujaheeden terrorists who were burning orthodox Christian churches?!

The KLA was even listed on our own roster as being a drug-smuggling, terrorist group instead of a "liberation army."

And our press let it slide. No serious questions about the whole war were ever raised by our news media to the Clinton administration...and the Euro press certainly didn't dare question their idol Chirac.

What were they thinking?!

[rageaholic]

yeah what's the problem with these liberal American Jews who trash Israel as a "hinderance to Peace"? Some people are just mindless slaves to doctrine of "Political Correctness", "Diversity" and "Tolerance". That might have been OK in the 1960s, but the world has changed and left them behind.

[miltonim]

Typical, muslims must humiliate completely. Exactly as happened in Fallujah, with the burned corpses.

[tubavil]

A) I never backed a muslim over a Christian.
B) I never will back a muslim over a Christian.
C) Klinton, Berger, and Albright should [DELETED].

Without negating what is happening to Christians, your comment "Jews are not in danger in Europe from Muslims" is 100% wrong.

If muslims are burning down your houses of worship, you should kill them.

[Gritty]

I still haven't figured 1999 out. Clinton and Chirac go to war...backing the side that is fighting with Iranian Mujaheeden terrorists... What were they thinking?!

IMHO, follow the money trail.

Saudi Arabia - billions in oil, cash payoffs, jobs and favors - which fits right into the clinton's low view of morality and statecraft.

The Media loves the clintons, so not a peep is heard from them.

[sheik yerbouty]

A most wise suggestion.

[swarthyguy]

I have no doubt. The Euros are far more concerned about inciting islami unrest and want to keep a lid on things.

Though, y'know, considering the Europeans got Europe almost JudenFrei over a half century ago, I do wonder why many Jews decide to still live there.

But cultural ties are strong, so one can understand.

[Destro]

I should have said "not as endangered as"....

[freedom moose]

you know who that is in the foreground of the photo with the euro leaders kissing arafat?

[Tribune7]

I think our Supreme Court should rule that European governments are violating the civil rights of Jews by not doing enough to protect them, and order them to allocate the necessary resources to do so.

[Klein-Bottle]

I hope to live at least another thirty years.

[Mamzelle]

It dismays, but it is quite true that our involvement in Kosovo was fomented at least in some part by neocons, many of them Jews, in the late nineties. Google up "The New American Century" and read what Bill Kristol had to say.

Kissenger, OTOH, tried to warn and keep us out of the Balkans, as did many Republicans that opposed. Clinton was probably not eager to get involved, frankly. McCain was all for bombing Kosovo.

It was quite an alliance, and very uncomfortable reading for any conservative. It didn't take but an hour's worth to decide I'm done with the neo-cons.

Christian Churches by the dozen are being burnt in Serbia by Albanian Muslims these past few weeks without much action from NATO.

[MarMema]

without much action from NATO.

Well except for terrorizing Orthodox priest and family.

[Nachum]

Time for the Jews in Europe to sell their property and move out.

[Destro]

Come to New York!! America needs you.

[DarthMaulrulesok]

Surely, no one is surprised by this? It is a fact that the Europeans will do nothing to resist Islamic terrorism until it directly affects them. When terrorists blow up EU buildings in Brussels or Napoleon's tomb in Paris, then, maybe, the Europeans will take action. If by then they still can.

[Kenton]

"The largest group of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic activities appears to be young, disaffected white Europeans,"

Sounds like what Bill Clinton and his cronies said about "angry white Christian gun-owning males" being the primary terrorist threat that the US had to fear... or maybe it sounds like Chief Moose's spin on the likely "disaffected white male" ID on the Beltway sniper.