Garfield, have you ever been to the UK? Because I can guarantee you that anti-Semitism isn't prevalent here at all; people of Arab and Asian backgrounds face far more racisim than the Jewish community.
I'm not saying it is prevalent everywhere in the United Kingdom, but it is prevalent in your country's media and acadamia. The BBC has actually lost at least one court case in that regard, I'm using news sources from the United Kingdom.
I have been finding articles from your country that directly contradict you, even from the BBC which is well known to be biased against Israel. In fact your own government views this as a problem.
The former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, who was one of the members of the panel, said the situation regarding anti-Semitic attacks was worse than he had previously believed.
"A combination of complacency and ignorance seems to be the name of the game here," he said.
"Many police forces simply keep no record of these attacks at all and therefore are unable to understand the depth or the strength of the nature of the problem.
"We found there was a very low level of prosecution seen through to their final end. It was almost as though they would shrug and leave it because it was just too difficult."
--MP's deliver anti-Semitism report, BBC (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5319716.stm)
The BNP (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party) ) targets, Africans, Arabs and Asians far more than it does Jews. Fact, and anyone that attempts arguing that is clueless about the UK - end of.
Yeah, that explains why the UK is implimenting muslim law throughout Britain, we've had topics on this in lucasforums, I'm not blind. Fact is your country's police won't even record the attacks, your own government has said that flat out.
Welcome to the website of The Parliamentary Committee against Antisemitism.
The rising tide of antisemitism in the UK is something that deeply concerns us all. As a group of parliamentarians we recognise our responsibility to take a lead in the fight against this latest incarnation of what is surely the oldest form of hatred.
Shortly after I was elected as Chair of this committee in the autumn of 2005, I commissioned the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism in the UK. Published last year in 2006, the Inquiry Report received much coverage and was welcomed by many who share our determination to confront and defeat antisemitism in this country and beyond.
In March of this year the government published its response to the Inquiry which welcomed many of the recommendations and echoed our concern in the face of a sharp increase in incident figures and general atmosphere of hostility towards Jewish people.
The committee is now fully focused on working with government and other partners to implement these and other measures to send out the clearest of messages; intolerance will no longer be tolerated.
I hope that you find both our work and the material on this website to be of interest.
Best wishes,
John Mann MP
Chair, The Parliamentary Committee against Antisemitism
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http://www.thepcaa.org/)
As a final note, part of my current charity work/job/course; I am currently doing an inter-culture studies course, you may want to listen to me, over your bloggers as to the state of the UK; especially considering my course concentrates on minorities, understanding them, and how they are treated.
As I've said, my sources are directly questioning the integrity of the media and acadamia in the United Kingdom.
Anyways here is a story concerning a bill passed in the United States House of Representatives calling for a push to reform the United Nations because of the anti-semitism:
http://www.house.gov/chabot/UNamend2005.html)
"The United Nations has, for some time, been a breeding ground for the dissemination of anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda. It took 16 years to reverse a General Assembly resolution that declared Zionism to be "a form of racism and racial discrimination." And it was only reversed after considerable pressure from the United States coupled with Israel�s decision to make its participation in the Madrid Peace Conference conditional upon repeal of the resolution.
"As noted in H. Res. 282, a bipartisan resolution introduced by the distinguished Chairman of the Middle East Subcommittee, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, and adopted in this body last week, the UN Human Rights Commission took several months to correct in its record a statement by the Syrian ambassador that Jews allegedly had killed non-Jewish children to make unleavened bread for Passover.
"If that were not enough, the President of the Human Rights Commission, in 1997, refused to challenge an assertion made by the Palestinian observer that the government of Israel had injected 300 Palestinian children with the HIV virus.
"Speaking from experience, Mr. Chairman, I can assure my colleagues of the anti-Israel activity at the UN. In 2001, I was honored to be nominated by President Bush to serve as one of two Congressional representatives to the United General Assembly � along with my colleague Mr. Faleomavega. During the year-long appointment, I traveled back and forth to New York to meet with our then-Ambassador John Negroponte and our diplomatic delegation at the U.S. -U.N. mission. On one occasion, I went to New York to participate in a special summit on children. Throughout the conference, we discussed resolutions on childhood disease, HIV-AIDS, humanitarian assistance, child trafficking, and other critical issues. Throughout the final day, our delegation trudged through the minutiae of resolutions in committee and in the plenary session. Aside from the occasional objection to a comma or a whereas from the Chinese or the French, the day passed uneventfully. Or so I thought. As I was getting ready to leave that evening, I learned from our diplomatic corps that the real battle was not fought in the committees or on the floor. It was fought behind the scenes as our American delegation successfully fought off an attempt from the Arab bloc to deny Israel its credentials to participate in the children�s summit. So much for the children.
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http://www.house.gov/chabot/UNamend2005.html)