european monitoring centre on racism and xenophobia eumc

• Adl: Eumc Report On Anti-Semitism Is Significant Step but Flawed

NEW YORK March 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today called a new report on anti-Semitism by the European Union's European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) a "significant step in recognizing the new anti-Semitism in Europe," but expressed disappointment that the report's conclusions of the changed nature of anti-Semitism and its perpetrators were not reflected in the EUMC press release and public statements. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:

• U.S. Newswire
• March 31, 2004

• Islam in Europe

A few years ago, Newsweek magazine, at least in its international edition, had a front page feature warning of the "new European anti-semitism," whose origins it traced especially to the increasing impact of Muslim communities (particularly in France) on European attitudes, specifically to widespread European questioning of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. A variation on this technique is Bawer's bald statement regarding a Norwegian-born girl who was sent to a Qur'anic school at the age of three in the parents' homeland and then returned to Norway in her late teens with a husband, no Norwegian, and only a Qur'anic school education: "Far from being unique, this young woman exemplifies the ideal towards which many immigrant families strive in their effort to exploit European muni...

...The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), which had ...

• Middle East Journal, The
• Vol. 62 Nbr. 1, January 2008