| Saturday, 20 June 2009 | |
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Virulent New Strain of anti-Semitism Rife in UK, says Chief Rabbi
'Whereas in the past, hatred was focused against Judaism as a religion or Jews as a race, the focus this time was on Jews as a nation. The rise in the number of attacks in January took place at the same time as Israels assault on Hamas in Gaza. It begins as anti-Zionism but it is never merely anti-Zionism when it attacks synagogues or Jewish schools, Sir Jonathan said. In the post-Holocaust world the single greatest source of authority is human rights therefore the new anti-Semitism is constructed in the language of human rights".' |