"We hoped that the embers of anti-Semitism were long since dead and cold", Mark Malloch-Brown

"This should be an utterly unnecessary conference. We hoped that the embers of anti-Semitism were long since dead and cold. Sadly they're not.

The response must not just address the Muslim-Jewish relationship. It's part of it, but only a part.

The broader issue is to again go back to the basics of this to remind people of the extraordinary role Jews play in so many countries around the world."

British Cabinet Minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, in an interview with the BBC, on The London Conference on Combatting Antisemitism, hosted by the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism and the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 15 – 17 February 2009.

Source: EJP

- The London Declaration on Combating Antisemitism
--Antisemitism: silence is not an option (ICCA) .