[Announcement from the Jewish Thought Police wing of the U.S. government:]
Briefing on Global Anti-Semitism Report,
U.S. Department of State, Notice to the Press, Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC, January 3, 2005
"Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Ambassador Michael Kozak, and the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, Ambassador Edward O’Donnell, will brief the press on the Global Anti-Semitism Report on Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 2:30 pm. This on the record, on camera briefing will be held in the State Department Press Briefing Room (Room 2209). The report will be available at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning in hardcopy and CD format in the Press Office and online at www.state.gov. Public Law 108-332, signed by the president on October 16, 2004, mandated this report. Since the late enactment of this legislation did not permit time to meet the November 15 report specified in the law, the Department and Congressional leaders agreed that the report would be due by the end of 2004. Members of the press who do not have a State Department building pass should arrive at the 23rd Street entrance by 2:15 p.m. for clearance through security and access to the briefing room."
[Free speech and democracy, per Jews and Zionism, is NOT to be found in the West. The Jewish Lobby has a censorial stranglehold against those who voice dissent from Judeocentrism. For all its failings, the Arab and Muslim Middle East is in the vanguard of truth-telling about the world Zionist problem that threatens us all.]
Anti-Semitism Rising, State Dept. Says,
by Barry Schweid, Yahoo! News, January 4, 2005
"A rise in the number of Muslims in Western Europe, many of them poor and uneducated, is contributing to an increase in deeply rooted anti-Semitism there, the State Department said in a report to Congress. Far-right groups still account for a significant proportion of attacks on Jews and Jewish property, the report said. In eastern Europe, skinheads and other members of the radical political fringe are responsible for most anti-Semitic incidents, according to the report, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. In Russia, Belarus and elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, anti-Semitism remained a serious problem, with most incidents carried out by ultra-nationalists and other far-right elements, according to the report. "The stereotype of Jews as manipulators of the global economy continues to provide fertile grounds for anti-Semitic aggression," said the report to the Senate and House foreign relations committees. Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., who pushed for annual State Department reports and for close monitoring through a new office in the department, welcomed the first global report on anti-Semitism. "It is only a beginning," said Lantos, the senior Democrat on the House committee. "The department must act quickly to appoint an advocate of substantial rank and experience to coordinate our government's response to the current outbreak of anti-Semitic violence .. There are dwindling Jewish populations in North Africa and the Middle East, except for Israel, and there are few incidents involving Jews who remain in those areas. But Syria condones and supports "a virulent domestic anti-Semitism" as government-supported media demonize Israel and its leaders, the report said. Beyond Europe and the Middle East "there are also worrying expressions" of anti-Semitism, the report said. In Pakistan, where there is no Jewish community, anti-Semitic sentiment fanned by press articles is widespread, the report said. Anti-Semitism where there are virtually no Jews is a recent phenomenon, the State Department told Congress ... Contributing to the trend, the report said, is a rising Muslim population with "long-standing antipathy toward both Israel and Jews" as well as developments in Israel, the occupied territories and Iraq. In Europe and other regions of the world, many governments have become increasingly aware of anti-Semitism and have spoken against it. Countries such as France, Belgium and Germany have taken effective measures to combat anti-Semitism and have increased protection for Jewish communities and Jewish properties, the report said ... "It is forthright in recognizing the changing nature and threat of anti-Semitism, its connection, and its virulent demonization of Israel and Zionists," Foxman said in a statement. And, he said, the United States is more direct in linking anti-Semitism to an increase in Muslim extremists in Europe and not to the Arab-Israeli conflict."
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