The Office of the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism released today a report on Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism. This report, which was provided to the U.S. Congress earlier this morning, is a follow-up to the State Department’s January 2005 Report on Global Anti-Semitism. It reflects the United States’ deep commitment to take a strong stand against growing anti-Semitism around the world.
This report is dedicated to the memory of Tom Lantos, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, a leader of moral force and a champion of human rights. As the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, he attested with uncommon eloquence to a truth based on unspeakable experience: promoting tolerance is essential to building a world of freedom and peace. It is in this spirit that the State Department will continue promoting tolerance and freedom around the world.
The report is thematic in nature and, using illustrative examples of contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, provides a broad overview of anti-Semitic incidents, discourse and trends. The report documents traditional forms of anti-Semitism such as those associated with Nazism, but also discusses new manifestations of anti-Semitism, including instances when criticism of Israel and Zionism crosses the line into anti-Semitism. The report covers anti-Semitism in both government and private media, and within the United Nations system. It concludes with a review of governmental and nongovernmental efforts to combat the problem.
The report is meant to serve as a resource for increasing understanding of contemporary forms of anti-Semitism and for shaping strategies to combat this growing problem worldwide.
Anti-Semitism, including government-promoted hatred toward Jews and prejudice couched as criticism of Israel, has risen globally over the last decade, the State Department said on Thursday.
The report, titled “Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism,” did not give comprehensive statistics, and said that in any case such statistics were skewed against Western democratic countries more likely to report the incidents. But it said other governments and institutions had documented similar trends.
The State Department document also listed examples of some governments and leaders it said “fan the flames of anti-Semitic hatred within their own societies and even beyond their borders.”
It cited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has questioned whether the murder of millions of Jews by the Nazis took place, and Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, who the State Department said had “publicly demonized” Israel.
Syria’s government “routinely demonizes Jews through public statements and official propaganda,” while in Belarus, “state enterprises freely produce and distribute anti-Semitic material.”
To read the report, click HERE.
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This proves once again:
ספרי במדבר פיסקא סט
ר”ש בן יוחי אומר הלכה בידוע שעשו שונא ליעקב
We get impressed with Harvard or yale studies, while this study proves itself unfortunately out time and again.