[link|http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/366712.html|Not so much a secret as something unacknowledged]

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The decision of the EUMC to withhold the report, which will now be published early next year, that examined the phenomenon of anti-Semitism in Europe in early 2002 stirred international uproar. Reaction came particularly after it became known that its authors, from the Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin, concluded that anti-Semitic attacks are carried out "either by right-wing extremists or radical Islamists or young Muslims mostly of Arab descent, who are often themselves potential victims of exclusion and racism; but also that anti-Semitic statements came from pro-Palestinian groups (...) as well as from politicians (...) and citizens from the political mainstream."

The authors, Werner Bergmann and Juliane Wetzel, also linked the phenomenon to "the extreme left-wing scene [where] anti-Semitic remarks were to be found mainly in the context of pro-Palestinian and anti-globalization rallies and in newspaper articles using anti-Semitic stereotypes in their criticism of Israel. Often this generated a combination of anti-Zionist and anti-American views that formed an important element in the emergence of an anti-Semitic mood in Europe."

The report, of which Haaretz acquired a copy, also notes that "a further aspect that needs to be noted is that the local Jewish population is closely associated with the state of Israel and its politics. It can be said that the native Jews have been made "hostages" of Israeli politics. Here anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist motives are mixed together."

The EUMC, which refused to comment to Haaretz on the report, said that it chose not to publish the report because of the low level of its scholarship and the flaws in the source materials used by its authors. The document is 120 pages long and includes 400 footnotes.

A Euro-parliamentarian from France, Francois Zimre, told Haaretz that the decision by the EUMC is ridiculous. "The main reason for the decision is that the report destroys a main taboo that holds anti-Semitism to be solely the fault of the extreme right. Now it appears that it crosses borders and characterizes the extreme left, the opponents of globalization, no less than the extreme right.

I say:

National, international, it's all Socialism. Leftism means never having to say you're sorry - [link|http://washingtontimes.com/books/20030816-105043-6895r.htm|no matter who you have to use as a scapegoat.]

It's nice that there aren't many attacks on Jews in places where there aren't many Jews handy to attack. The citizens in these countries show admirable restraint in not piling into buses en masse and driving to some country that has Jews so they can do their traditional pogrom thing.