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AS JEWS ARE BEING ATTACKED ON THE STREETS OF EUROPE, UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION FAILS TO CONFRONT ANTISEMITISM
As Jews are being attacked on the streets, a United Nations Human Rights Commission Report on contemporary forms of racism released yesterday ignored the resurgence of antisemitism even as new violent antisemitic attacks were taking place in Paris, Berlin and Sydney.
"The consistent failure of the United Nations, dominated by more than 60 Moslem countries determined to block any discussion on antisemitism, only encourages further attacks against Jews," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Center's dean and founder. "By continuously minimizing the resurgence of antisemitism, the United Nations has unfortunately become part of the problem and not the solution. In this official report on racism the UN's Special Rapporteur devoted 57 paragraphs to the impact of 9/11 on Moslems and Arabs while only managing to report in one lone paragraph that Israel and Jewish NGO's were concerned about an Egyptian miniseries that they said was antisemitic," he added.
While the report was being discussed in Geneva, new antisemitic attacks blaming Jews for the war in Iraq occurred in Berlin, Paris and Sydney, Australia.
In a related development, Dr. Shimon Samuels who is representing the Simon Wiesenthal Center at the UN Human Rights meeting has demanded that the racism report be tabled until such time that a full section delineating the resurgence of antisemitism worldwide be included in the text.
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