Friday, 20 February 2009

Vatican readmits society that propagates anti-Semitism, Cnaan Liphshiz

"The society's official U.S. Web site described Jews as "the enemy of man, whose secret weapon is the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy," adding that "heads of Jewry have for centuries conspired methodically and out of an undying hatred against the Catholic name." "

Article by Cnaan Liphshiz in Haaretz
Photo: Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais from the Society of St. Pius X holding a book on Action Française.

"In lifting the excommunication of Bishop Richard Williamson who has been accused of Holocaust denial last month, the Catholic Church also readmitted a priestly society that openly propagates virulent anti-Semitism, according to a probe by a Belgian Jewish newspaper.

The Roman Catholic Church excommunicated the Society of St. Pius X in 1988 along with Williamson and three other member priests, declaring their consecrations were "unlawful" and "schismatic."

In January of this year the Vatican lifted the excommunication. On the same day, a Swedish television station aired an interview with Williamson in which he denied the existence of gas chambers during the Holocaust.

In a research performed after the readmittance, a team of journalists from Joods Actueel, an Antwerp-based Jewish news publication, found what they describe as "a slew of anti-Semitic content" on the society's Web sites in five languages.

The probe whose results were made public on Thursday, found that the society's official U.S. Web site described Jews as "the enemy of man, whose secret weapon is the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy," adding that "heads of Jewry have for centuries conspired methodically and out of an undying hatred against the Catholic name."

The South African site said that "Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion."

The Irish site asks whether "the Jews are guilty of Deicide," answering: "We must say yes."

The site from Germany, a country with strict limitations on anti-Semitic speech, clarifies that "contemporary Jews are for sure guilty of the murder of God, as long as they don't recognize Christ as God."

The Belgian site accuses Jews of "still believing they are the chosen people" while "awaiting world domination."

The Austrian site warns that the Jewish organization B'nai Brith is "found everywhere" and "commands the entire world."

Michael Freilich, editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel, told Haaretz that anti-Semitic content was being pulled offline even as the team of four journalists were documenting and saving the material ? which Haaretz obtained from Joods Actueel.

Noting that The Society of St. Pius X is believed to have between 600,000 and a million followers, Frielich said: "Williamson's Holocaust denial has attracted much attention, but this anti-Semitic content is in many ways worse because he is a lone fool and not taken seriously by the masses, whereas here we are talking about an entire society spreading hatred around the world." Freilich added that "while Williamson's lies negate the past, what we have uncovered here is preaching of lies and hate against Jews today."

The Society of St. Pius X was founded in 1970 by French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

Experts on the Catholic Church such as Dirk Verhofstadt* - brother of the former Belgian prime minister - have said that in addition to expressing these positions on Jews, society members have also disavows the Nostra Aetate - a document whereby the Church says Jews were not responsible for the death of Christ."

* Dirk Verhofstadt, a scholar and brother of former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, has published a well researched and strongly argued book about the Pope Pius XII's sad conduct during the war : Pius XII and the extermination of the Jews (Pius XII en de vernietiging van de Joden).

Thursday, 19 February 2009

Pius X Society: "Jews, the enemy of man"

Don't the Vatican and Catholics do their homework ? Is it acceptable to Catholics that this congregation is reinstated ?

"The heads of this Jewry have for centuries conspired methodically and out of an undying hatred against the Catholic name and the destruction of the Catholic order, and for the construction of a world wide Jewish empire. (...) With vigilance and clear-sightedness we should launch a systematic and methodical opposition to the equally systematic and methodical onslaught of "the enemy of man", whose secret weapon is "the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy". International Judaism wants to radically defeat Christianity and to be its substitute." (American website of the Society of Pius X)

Source: Joods Actueel

An in-depth review of 'Pius X' websites reveals shocking information

Research by a team of journalists from Belgian-based Joods Actueel, a Jewish news publication, has revealed a slew of anti-Semitic content on websites of the St. Pius X Society. Pius X is the catholic society whose excommunication has recently been recanted by the Pope. Much controversy has arisen about the rehabilitation of one of its members, bishop Richard Williamson, a known holocaust denier.

The research comes to the conclusion that Pius X is an extreme conservative Catholic group that rejects the Second Vatican Council and propagates the worst kind of anti-Semitism. (For examples see below.)

For the research the international overarching site of the society was consulted and also a host of national sites such as those of the U.S.A., Brazil, Ireland, Asia, Austria, South-Africa and Poland.

It is to be expected that after publication of this article, a number of incriminating articles will be removed, therefore full back-ups of these sites have been performed by Joods Actueel.

According to Dirk Verhofstadt, author of a recent publication about the role of the pope during WWII, it is not just bishop Williamson who has crossed the red line, so too are the statements of rehabilitated bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais who in the past accused Jews of being "the foremost militants for the coming of the antichrist". A few months ago, this French bishop also gave an interview in which he clearly disavows the 'Nostra Aetate', the document of the Second Vatican Council whereby the church rejects the notion that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ.

Michael Freilich, editor-in-chief of the Jewish publication Joods Actueel, supervised the research and had the following statement:

"This is in many ways worse than the outrageous statements of bishop Williamson denying the Holocaust and the existence of gas chambers. Williamson is a lone fool and not taken serious by the masses, whereas here we are talking about an entire society comprising thousands of priests spreading hatred to hundreds of thousands around the world (The Saint Pius X society is believed to have between 600.000 and 1 million followers). Another difference with Williamson is that, how undeniably awful his lies may be, they negate the past. Yet what we have uncovered here is preaching of lies and hate against Jews today thereby once again promoting hatred against the Jewish people.

Anti-Semitism in the Church is not new; it has existed for centuries. The positive steps taken after WWII, such as the Second Vatican Council, threaten to be completely undone by embracing an extremist group such as this back into the Church. What is needed now are deeds not words. The hate mongering society of St. Pius X has no place in the Church and should be excommunicated as soon as possible."
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A number of examples of texts on St. Pius X websites :

United States Society of Saint Pius http://www.sspx.org/MISCELLANEOUS/whatvaticanIIshouldhavedone.htm

"The Church can not ignore the facts of the past and the clear affirmations of international Jewry. The heads of this Jewry have for centuries conspired methodically and out of an undying hatred against the Catholic name and the destruction of the Catholic order, and for the construction of a world wide Jewish empire.

Money, the media, and international politics are for a large part in the hands of the Jews. Although the Jews are the biggest capitalists and should on that account be the greatest adversaries of the Russians and the communists, they do not fear them, but on the contrary, they help them to win. The founders of communism were Jews. They are the promoters, organizers and bankers.

With vigilance and clear-sightedness we should launch a systematic and methodical opposition to the equally systematic and methodical onslaught of "the enemy of man", whose secret weapon is "the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy".

International Judaism wants to radically defeat Christianity and to be its substitute.
Its chief armies are the masons and the communists. This process of the Revolution began at the end of the Middle Ages, developed itself by pagan Renaissance, jumped forwards by leaps and bounds with the Reformation, destroyed the political and social basis of the Church by the French Revolution, tried to overthrow the Holy See with by an attack on the Papal States, emptied the Church’s resources on the occasion of the secularization of the goods of religious (orders -Ed’s) and dioceses, was the cause of a very grave internal crisis with the advance of Modernism, and finally, with communism, it invented the decisive instrument to delete the name of Christian from the very face of the earth."
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South-Africa
http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/2001_Jan-Dec/Bishop_Williamson.htm

"… as Catholics have grown over the centuries since then weaker and weaker in the faith, especially since Vatican II, so the Jews have come closer and closer to fulfilling their substitute-Messianic drive towards world dominion."
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Ireland (just removed but still on the international site)
http://www.fsspx.org/ger/Archiv/Vortraege/P.Schmidberger/Zeitbomben-Konzils/1989-Zeitbomben-Konzils-3.htm

"There is one other question. Can we say that the Jews are guilty of Deicide? We must say yes because it is they who asked for Our Lord’s death and called for His blood upon their heads and the heads of their children. I want to make it very clear: I do not speak about the Jews as a race, I speak about the Jews as a religion.

So, what about the Jews of our day? Well, as long as they do not withdraw from this crime, from this action of their ancestors, they are also guilty of it. They must disassociate themselves from it and recognise Our Lord; they must be baptised and become His disciples."
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Germany (in German)
http://www.fsspx.info/media/pdf/Begleitschreiben.pdf#page=11

"Die Juden unserer Tage [...] sind vielmehr des Gottesmordes mitschuldig, so lange sie sich nicht durch das Bekenntnis der Gottheit Christi und die Taufe von der Schuld ihrer Vorväter distanzieren." (Schreiben an alle Bischöfe von Franz Schmidberger vom 9. Dezember 2008)
(the Jews of now are for sure guilty of the murder of God, as long as they don’t recognize Christ as God and are baptized to atone for the sins of their forefathers).
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The Netherlands (in Dutch)
http://www.stpiusx.nl/index.php?page=270&news=185

"Paus Johannes Paulus reciteerde Psalmen met joden tijdens zijn bezoek aan de synagoge te Rome (13 april 1986) en nodigde katholieken en joden uit zich samen voor te bereiden op de komst van de Messias (24 juni 1986). Zowel in woord als in daad, predikt de paus dat alle mensen, van welke belijdenis ook, aanvaardbaar zijn voor God, hetgeen strijdig is met het katholieke dogma. (Principe 2). Hierin kunnen we de ideeën van deze paus niet volgen, maar moeten vasthouden aan de constante leer van de Kerk door alle eeuwen heen."

(Pope Johannes Paulus recited Psalms with Jews during his visit to a synagogue and invited catholics and jews to pray together for the coming of the Messiah. Both in word and in deed the pope confirmed that all people and faiths are acceptable to God which is contrary to the Catholic Dogma. Herein we cannot follow the pope but must hold on to the teaching as given throughout the centuries.)
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Belgium : Rejection of Vaticanum II (in Dutch)
http://www.stpiusx.be/index.php?page=74

"Dan hebt ge de niet-bekeerde Joden, die verwach­ten nog steeds de komst van de Messias, die hun de macht over de wereld zal geven. Dat kan echter de anti-christ zijn van de Apocalyps, die wereldvrede brengt in het boze ("ongestoord zondigen en laten zondigen") en de oorlog aandoet aan de ka­tholieken die bekering prediken en dus deze liberale (wan)orde verstoren.

Zij denken dat zij nog steeds het uitverkoren volk zijn (dat zijn ze niet meer na hun verwerping van de ware Messias Onze Heer Jezus Christus) en dat hun een wereldse heer­schappij wacht.

(Then, you have the non-converted Jews, who still expect the coming of the Messiah who will give them all the power over this world. This could rather be the anti-christ of the Apocalyps, who will bring world peace (in the bad sense of the word), unbridled sinning and allowing of sin, and wage wars against the Catholics who preach conversion and will thus disturb this liberal chaos.

They still believe they are the chosen people and they await world domination (yet they are not the chosen people after they rejected the true Messiah, our Lord Jesus Christ).)
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Austria and international site
http://www.fsspx.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10&Itemid=11&show=78

"Durch B’nai Brith wurde die sowjetische Revolution finanziert sowie der Zar und alle Vertreter des orthodoxen christlichen Glaubens massakriert, um den vormals zwar christlichen, wenn auch schismatischen Staat aus Haß gegen das Christentum zu beseitigen." Das ist das Werk von B’nai Brith, einer jüdischen Freimaurersekte, die nur Juden vorbehalten ist. Léon de Poncin schreibt, daß diese Loge damals 120.000 Mitglieder zählte. Vor kurzem las ich in einer Veröffentlichung, daß die Mitgliederzahl inzwischen auf eine halbe Million Personen angewachsen ist. Diese Freimaurersekte findet man überall. Sie kommandieren auf der ganzen Welt. Diese Juden haben alle Banken in ihrer Hand und sind im Besitz aller bedeutenden Geschäfte der Welt, auch in der UdSSR und in Amerika. Sie verleihen Medaillen und Orden für die Religionsfreiheit."

(Synopsis: B’nai Brith financed the Soviet revolution so that the Tsar and all representatives of the Orthodox Christian Faith could be butchered. This Jewish organization is found everywhere. They command the entire world. These Jews control all banks and are the owners of the most important companies, both in Russia and America.)
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For your information, excerpts of NOSTRA AETATE, The Second Vatican Council proclaimed by Pope Paul VI on October 28, 1965

Since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great, this sacred synod wants to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies as well as of fraternal dialogues.

True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed their lead pressed for the death of Christ;(13) still, what happened in His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today. Although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures. All should see to it, then, that in catechetical work or in the preaching of the word of God they do not teach anything that does not conform to the truth of the Gospel and the spirit of Christ.

Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony she shares with the Jews and moved not by political reasons but by the Gospel’s spiritual love, decries hatred, persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
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For 1stst time since Inquisition, Portuguese cheese gets kosher seal

"Portugal is seeing a Jewish revival over the past few years."

For the first time since the Spanish Inquisition* in Portugal, a dairy product has been given an official kosher certificate. The ground-breaking product is a hard, goat's milk cheese, manufactured by the descendant of Anusim (Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity).

Last year, José Braz, owner of the Queijos Braz factory, contacted Daniel Litwak, the chief rabbi of Portugal's second-largest city, Porto, and asked him to arrange a kashrut certificate for Serra da Estrela cheese, which Braz manufactures. Braz believes that his own family were members of Portugal's Jewish community in the 14th and 15th centuries, but like many others were forced to convert to escape persecution by the Inquisition.

"When I spoke to José, he told me he wanted to reconnect to his Jewish roots - this was the reason for contacting me," says Litwak, who was born in Argentina. "I was surprised because his brand was doing rather nicely all over Europe. He did not need the certificate to increase his turnover."

New York-born Michael Freund, the chairman of Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based organization that helps people with Jewish roots become more involved in their Jewish community, who immigrated to Israel some 10 years ago, told Haaretz that Portugal "is seeing a Jewish revival over the past few years." "Recently, the first kosher wine in Portugal since the Inquisition has become available, then the first olive oil and now the cheese," Freund says. "I see a definite connection between how many of the Anusim are rediscovering their roots and the increased interest."

Source: article by Cnaan Liphshiz in Haaretz
Photo: Shavei Israel

* The Portuguese Inquisition was established on the Spanish model in 1547 to root out heresy. In 1774, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal (1699-1782) abolished the legal requirement of "purity of blood" for holders of office and the distinctions between Old Christian and New Christian (Jewish converts and their descendants).
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Norway in 1814: no Jews or Jesuits, please ...

"With so few Jews then, how has Norway managed to develop this obsessive - compulsive disorder about Jews and Israel ? I will tell you. I don’t know."

Source: Norway, Israel and the Jews blog

"Jews in Norway are few. All in all they number around one and a half thousand. In a population of 4.5 million, that’s minuscule. I’m 37 years old and have lived most of my life here in Oslo, and to the best of my knowledge I have never met a Jew. There are a couple of people I know who have slightly Jewish-sounding names, but there’s no way to find out and unfortunately this may be a good thing. So Norwegian Jews are few and far between and completely integrated. Norwegian Jews don’t stick out enough to be recognized. When you think about it, neither do Norwegian non-Jews.
Old Jewish cemetery in Oslo

When I was a teenager my family lived in Finland. To our amusement, we discovered that our neighbors were unable to recognize each other on the street. The policy was to just assume that if you saw someone in your street, then that person probably lived there and you would grunt a discreet greeting if you passed by close enough. Even by Nordic standards this is a bit much. I do, however, live by this policy myself now, and am happily unable to describe the personal characteristics of a single one of my neighbors. It is the Nordic way, but we’re good people.

No Jews or Jesuits, please

With so few Jews then, how has Norway managed to develop this obsessive - compulsive disorder about Jews and Israel ? I will tell you. I don’t know. In part, it’s historical legacy. Norway was declared a Christian country around 1000 AD, and everyone who desired to worship the old gods had to go to Iceland. By 1641 things had relaxed sufficiently for both Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews to live here a little bit, but when we formulated our first constitution in 1814 it was back to square one: no Jews or Jesuits to be allowed access to the realm. This sordid state of affairs existed until 1844, when the ban against Jews was lifted in part due to the tireless campaigning of our poet Henrik Wergland.

Henrik Wergland (1808-1845)

The Jewish community then grew to a healthy number of two thousand by 1939. At this point Norway was invaded by Germany, and my grandfather had to leave his job at the bank to go and fight the Germans at Narvik. When he returned from the war, days later, my grandmother had just washed the entrance floor and so wouldn’t let him in the front door and he had to go around the back. Sometimes I lay awake at night and think about how I’ve got this man’s blood in my veins, and is it a good thing or not?

Anyway Norway was occupied and the war was over and my grandfather and everybody else could go back to keeping their heads down at work. Our occupiers requested that we give them our Jews, and curiously enough we were instantly able to provide them with the exact details on every single Jew in the country. The Norwegian police helped round them up. Some Jews managed to escape to Sweden. 758 Norwegian Jews were killed in Auschwitz. Out of the survivors, many didn’t return. Those who did return found that their assets had been stolen. They had to go to court to get their things back and even if they did they had to pay an administration fee for doing so. By 1946, Norway had only 559 Jews left.

The Jews had ample warning …

It is a very peculiar thing, but I was at a family gathering a while back and there was some talk of the war and the issue of the Norwegian Jews came up. One man took me by the arm and gently said: "You know, the Jews had ample warning about what was going to happen, they could have fled. And the ones who listened did." Now isn’t this a very interesting thing to say? The message seems to be that somehow the Norwegian Jews were a bit slow in the head, and that if they had only had their wits about them they could have survived. A sentence like this one shifts the responsiblity for the murder onto the murdered, it’s eerie. Why would you want to go and say a thing like that ?"

- Anti-Semitic cartoons in the mainstream media
- Bias in the Norwegian media

Monday, 16 February 2009

Moshe Kantor to meet EU parliament head to press for strong resolution against anti-Semitism

"The EJC has recently expressed its "extreme disappointment" with the European Parliament’s "inaction and refusal to openly denounce" the wave of anti-Semitic attacks that took place throughout Europe during the last two months. "

"European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor [photo] will press a reluctant European Parliament to pass a resolution condemning in strong terms the wave of anti-Semitism in Europe, during a meeting Wednesday in Brussels with the EU body’s president Hans-Gert Poettering.

On the same day, he will also present a proposal to European Commissioner Jacques Barrot, in charge of justice, freedom and security, to include a task force with representatives the Jewish communities within the Vienna-based Fundamantal Rights Agency (FRA).

This influential independent Vienna-based body of the European Union replaces the former European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia and is providing expertise to EU member states on fundamental rights issues.

The EJC, which represents Jewish communities in 40 European countries, has recently expressed its "extreme disappointment" with the European Parliament’s "inaction and refusal to openly denounce" the wave of anti-Semitic attacks that took place throughout Europe during the last two months.

European parliamentarians and parliamentary groups have apparently been reluctant to pass such a resolution last month in the belief that there is a "justified" causality between these anti-Semitic attacks and the Middle East conflict, despite a call by President Poettering on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day to "speak out clearly and reject any instances of anti-Semitism."

"Several MEPs told us they couldn’t pass a resolution on anti-Semitism during the January plenary session of the European Parliament because of the presence of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who addressed the parliamentarians in Strasbourg," Nicolas Stofenmcher, a spokesman for the EJC, told EJP.

Socialists MEPs tried to include a mention on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in a resolution on Gaza but it was deleted in the final text. "Which is very good because the two situations are not
linked," Stofenmacher said.

"We think that it was dropped because there is a desire within the European Parliament to avoid any reference to something which would be considered as 'less important' than the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza."

Moshe Kantor will deliver both Poettering and Barrot with a full report on most anti-Semitic attacks that occurred in Europe during the last two months.

"We often have the impression that the parliamentarians are not necessarily aware of what's happening and that they ignore that anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon and not just limited to some countries."

A general phenomenon

"Our report shows that anti-Semitism is a general phenomenon even in the countries where there is no efficient monitoring system. There are countries where Jews are less visible and others were it is not popular for the governments to speak out against anti-Semitism, such as in eastern Europe," the EJC explains.

According to the Jewish group, the total of anti-Semitic incidents in 2009 in certain European countries already totals half of the number of incidents monitored during all of 2008.

In four weeks, several western European countries, including France, Belgium and the UK, have witnessed an alarming rise of the number of anti-Semitic incidents, including extreme physical violence, vandalism, anti-Jewish graffiti and threats made against Jewish organizations and individuals.

Moshe Kantor will also propose to hold at the parliament premises an interreligious and intercultural "open day" of reflection on the topic of "living together in Europe".

Religious leaders and leaders of communities around Europe would be invited to hear testimonies of people on the ground and discuss ways to combat anti-semitism and other racists attitudes.

"Many political leaders in Europe consider anti-Semitic attacks in Europe as purely tensions between Jewish and Muslim communities who have different political viewpoints on the situation in the Middle East," says Nicolas Stofenmacher. "But for us this is not an issue of tensions between communities because on the Jewish side we don’t have Islamophobic incidents."

"That’s what we want to explain the European parliamentarians.""

Source: article by Yossi Lempkowicz in EJP

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Sunday, 15 February 2009

Mahmoud Abbas tells European Parliament not to work with Israel

"You must stop cooperating with Israel as it's placing itself above the law. Their actions have no legal basis and must be ended. Israeli leaders should also be charged with infringing international humanitarian law."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in an address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on February 4.

Source: Euronews

Italian FM to attend London summit on combating anti-Semitism

"We’re meeting because anti-Semitism is on the rise. There must be a fight-back and we parliamentarians are willing to lead from the front. Jewish communities across the world should know that they are not alone." (MP John Mann)

Several government ministers, including Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, and more than 100 parliamentarians from nearly 40 countries, are expected to attend on Tuesday in London the first-time summit conference on combating anti-Semitism, hosted by Britain’s foreign ministry.

This two-day summit, organized by the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism (ICCA), will take place ahead of the controversial UN Conference on Racism (‘Durban II’) in Geneva in April.

The attendees – largely not Jewish – will commit to coordinated, long-term action to tackle the escalating global threat of anti-Semitism.

This includes physical attacks such as that on the Chabad Jewish Community Centre in Mumbai, and race hatred and Holocaust denial distributed via the mainstream media and the Internet.

The London Conference comes in the wake of a significant increase in anti-Semitic attacks around the world.

MP John Mann, initiator of the summit and chairman of the UK’s Parliamentary Committee Against Anti-Semitism, said: "We’re meeting because anti-Semitism is on the rise. There must be a fight-back and we parliamentarians are willing to lead from the front. Jewish communities across the world should know that they are not alone".

Whether it is the UK’s Parliamentary Inquiry into Anti-Semitism, the two comprehensive responses from the government and numerous policy changes, the UK has earned its role as the host of this historic conference.

The MPs will spend Monday in working groups in the House of Commons, discussing practical strategies on how to combat the resurgent threat of anti-Semitism around the world.

Best practice from across the globe, including Canada, Germany and the UK, will inform the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism, to be announced at a press conference Tuesday afternoon in Lancaster House.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, a former EU Commissioner for justice, freedom and security, will be the guest of honour at Monday’s conference dinner, will speak out on the scope and impact of global anti-Semitism and call for multilateral and EU action on the issue.

Among the participants are MP Petra Pau, vice-president of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, André Azoulay, counselor of King Mohammed VI of Morocco and Barbara Prammer, president of the Austrian National Council.

Source: article by Henri Stein in EJP

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