Sunday, April 1, 2007
UK: Minister vows crackdown on anti-semitism
There is particular concern about the growth of anti-semitic incidents on college campuses.
Phil Woolas, the minister for communities and local government, said the government took very seriously recent manifestations of anti-semitism and "current rhetoric about Israel and Zionism from the far right, the far left and Islamist extremists alike".
He said the Crown Prosecution Service had agreed to review whether there should be more prosecutions related to such incidents.
"Apart from what may be criminal acts, there is also concern about the tone of the general discourse," he said while responding to the all-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-semitism which reported last year. "Open and public debate is one thing, but rhetoric with an undercurrent of hate and racism is quite another."
What was worrying was that many incidents took place on university campuses. "There is increasing evidence of activities well beyond what could be labelled freedom of speech or normal youthful behaviour," he said.
The government has pledged £1.5m to the Holocaust Education Trust to take 6,000 students to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp...
Trips to extermination camps are useless if they get back to school and are immediately taught, "And so isn't it horrible what the Jews are doing to the poor Arabs now?"
And the first step in the new anti-Semitism campaign will be to ignore any reference to the Holocaust in History class. Yea folks, I am sure that they are serious about dealing with the issue. Sit, dhimmi, sit. Be a good boy, and we won't make the jizya too high when we take over.
Twafik Hamid article in Opinion Journal. Hamid, according to bio-blurb at the end of the peice, is a onetime member of Jemaah Islamiya, an Islamist terrorist group and presently is a medical doctor and Muslim reformer living in the West.
It's Dr. Tawfik, not Twafik, Hamid, and should have given a h/t to A/F.
Oh good grief, I just now noticed I didn't read all the posts here earlier today, the Hamid piece had already been noted. One demerit for inattentiveness. That pic of Pelosi must have caused a mental lapse.