Major UK Anti-Semitism Conference

[maven]

Anti-Semitism World Summit Begins In UK.

A UK charity says anti-Semitic attacks rose after the Israel/Gaza offensive
Nearly 100 legislators from 35 countries have gathered in London to develop strategies to combat the "growing threat of anti-Semitism".

The inaugural conference of the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA) is being co-hosted by the Foreign Office.

The politicians will work with experts to devise ways to fight anti-Semitism.

It comes after the number of attacks on UK Jews rose sharply following the Israeli offensive in Gaza in December.

The two-day summit is being held in the Houses of Parliament and at Lancaster House.

'International co-operation'

The attendees include a dozen government ministers, members of the US Congress and several UK ministers, including Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch Brown.

They will share knowledge, experiences and best practice, and meet international experts from academia, law enforcement, information technology and security.

They hope to create an action plan to tackle what they have identified as the escalating global threat of anti-Semitism.

Modern and innovative solutions are essential if we are to combat this (anti-Semitism). So is international co-operation

This includes physical attacks, such as that on the Jewish community centre during the Mumbai terror attacks in November, and race hatred and Holocaust denial distributed via the internet and other media.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband said: "Anti-Semitism has been with us for millennia, but has mutated in form and expression through the ages. Today it has adapted to new technologies and has no defined borders.

"The internet age, with its manifold benefits, has the downside that hate is able to travel faster and further than ever before. Modern and innovative solutions are essential if we are to combat this. So is international co-operation."

The newly-formed ICCA is an umbrella framework which assembles parliamentarians from around the world who take an active interest and involvement in confronting anti-Semitism.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7892216.stm

Talk about well timed!

[Yala]

:lol: and as usual they will focus on traditional right-wing anti-Semitism while ignoring all the real, current anti-Semitism coming from the left and the jihadists.

[maven]

:lol: and as usual they will focus on traditional right-wing anti-Semitism while ignoring all the real, current anti-Semitism coming from the left and the jihadists.The Minister for community cohesion........ said:
“In line with other forms of racism, anti-Semitism is being accepted in parts of the community instead of being condemned

(Maven: i.e. the Muslim community).

We are also aware of the current rhetoric from the far left and the far right.
http://www.thejc.com/articles/mps-gather-hate-crime-summit

[Sharona]

Maven - shall we just tell them how to do it?

The Government will have a conference; 'advisors' will be drafted in and, as usual, be about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

It's quite simple:

1) Address the biased reporting of the media.
2) Run a few documentaries/courses about the history of Israel and the Palestinian situation. I should be used to the lack of knowledge coming from protestors against Israel, but every time Israel moves so much as a centimetre towards Gaza/West Bank, the same old misinformation pours out, demonstrating just how ingrained it is.
3) Encourage Israel to begin issuing information via its own channel.


In my view, it is the Palestinian 'cause' that ignites most of the flames in the UK. It attracts the University crowd who think that they're demonstrating their academic credentials by being aware of the issue and shouting loudly about it or staging sit-ins. Their real understanding/knowledge is anything but academic and is more of a knee-jerk, ill-educated, emotional, self-righteousness.

In their case, their pathetically little knowledge is dangerous.

Palestine is also used as a tool to radicalise young Muslims.

If the government began thinking in terms of information, rather than 'measures', 'laws', 'community get-togethers', we'd stand a chance.

[maven]

Maven - shall we just tell them how to do it?

The Government will have a conference; 'advisors' will be drafted in and, as usual, be about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

It's quite simple:

1) Address the biased reporting of the media.
2) Run a few documentaries/courses about the history of Israel and the Palestinian situation. I should be used to the lack of knowledge coming from protestors against Israel, but every time Israel moves so much as a centimetre towards Gaza/West Bank, the same old misinformation pours out, demonstrating just how ingrained it is.
3) Encourage Israel to begin issuing information via its own channel.


In my view, it is the Palestinian 'cause' that ignites most of the flames in the UK. It attracts the University crowd who think that they're demonstrating their academic credentials by being aware of the issue and shouting loudly about it or staging sit-ins. Their real understanding/knowledge is anything but academic and is more of a knee-jerk, ill-educated, emotional, self-righteousness.

In their case, their pathetically little knowledge is dangerous.

Palestine is also used as a tool to radicalise young Muslims.

If the government began thinking in terms of information, rather than 'measures', 'laws', 'community get-togethers', we'd stand a chance.Very good points Sharona. If anyone can find any link as to get some sort of access to the agenda, what is being discessed and so on it would be a help to us.

I wish it could have been broadcast on the Parliment channel.

It is another reason why Israel needs an International News channel because neither Press TV Iran or Al Jazeera English; the two main networks in the UK for Mid East News have even mentioned it is going on, and the Beeb and SKY are too obsessed with the economy, reality TV stars and the endless stream of murdered and abused children and so on which makes up most of their diet to give it much time.

[Sharona]

If there is an anti-semitism conference, how will it sit with our esteemed leaders probably going off to participate in Durban 2? Obama is going but the Canadian man isn't.

I put up a thread about this after having read Melanie Phillips blog.

It's worrying.

Melanie classes it as a 'hate-fest' and mentions one possible aim to be that of delegitimising Israel because it is a 'racist' situation.

In a reply, one reader says that Melanie is not seeing the overall picture - Durban 2 is also aimed at the West and includes drafting new laws in respect of religion; laws that would make speaking out against Islam (demonstrating 'Islamophobia') even more difficult.

I don't know much about Durban 2 but it sounds very worrying and I believe there is some kind of lobby in the USA against Obama going. I doubt we've got anything like that in the UK. We don't know how to begin uniting.

[maven]

If there is an anti-semitism conference, how will it sit with our esteemed leaders probably going off to participate in Durban 2? Obama is going but the Canadian man isn't.

I put up a thread about this after having read Melanie Phillips blog.

It's worrying.

Melanie classes it as a 'hate-fest' and mentions one possible aim to be that of delegitimising Israel because it is a 'racist' situation.

In a reply, one reader says that Melanie is not seeing the overall picture - Durban 2 is also aimed at the West and includes drafting new laws in respect of religion; laws that would make speaking out against Islam (demonstrating 'Islamophobia') even more difficult.

I don't know much about Durban 2 but it sounds very worrying and I believe there is some kind of lobby in the USA against Obama going. I doubt we've got anything like that in the UK. We don't know how to begin uniting.As far as I know while the US is assisting in setting up Durban 2 it is intending to boycott over the high level of anti-Semitism which is tolerated if not allowed and encouraged in many of the States involved in the conference.

Durban is a flawed conference just as the General Assembly at the UN is flawed. Most of these countries (especially that criminal fraternity known as the 'non-Aligned Movement') are backward, ill-educated, badly governed and institutionally tribalist, castist, racist or anti-Semitic. It is a meeting of Foxes discussing rights for hens. Each Fox convinced it is a hen.

No doubt Britain will be there when we should not be there just as we do not abstain from UN General Assembly resolutions against Israel which the US oppose and we should also oppose.

We are a nation of wimps sadly. :unsure:

[Sharona]

Just thought I'd pop the blogger 'Cranmer's' prayer in here:

Hail Gordon, devoid of grace.
The Lord is not with thee.
Cursed art thou amongst men,
and cursed is the fruit of thy labours, the recession.
Unholy Gordon, author of incompetence,
intervene no more for the electorate,
from now until the hour of your political death.
Amen.

:lol:

[Steven]

As far as I know while the US is assisting in setting up Durban 2 it is intending to boycott over the high level of anti-Semitism which is tolerated if not allowed and encouraged in many of the States involved in the conference.

Durban is a flawed conference just as the General Assembly at the UN is flawed. Most of these countries (especially that criminal fraternity known as the 'non-Aligned Movement') are backward, ill-educated, badly governed and institutionally tribalist, castist, racist or anti-Semitic. It is a meeting of Foxes discussing rights for hens. Each Fox convinced it is a hen.

No doubt Britain will be there when we should not be there just as we do not abstain from UN General Assembly resolutions against Israel which the US oppose and we should also oppose.

We are a nation of wimps sadly. :unsure:

Bush used to boycott it and now Obama's people will be there. I am not exactly sure why though.

[maven]

Just thought I'd pop the blogger 'Cranmer's' prayer in here:

Hail Gordon, devoid of grace.
The Lord is not with thee.
Cursed art thou amongst men,
and cursed is the fruit of thy labours, the recession.
Unholy Gordon, author of incompetence,
intervene no more for the electorate,
from now until the hour of your political death.
Amen.

:lol:I also like:

"In Downing Street upon the stair
I met a man who was'nt Blair
I met that man again today
O how I wish he'd go away!"

:lol:

[Sharona]

. If anyone can find any link as to get some sort of access to the agenda, what is being discessed and so on it would be a help to us.




Might the Board have some insight into the agenda? Or the JC?

[maven]

Might the Board have some insight into the agenda? Or the JC?I found this link to the minister involved's opening speech, who is actually a Muslim, (we are British after all :rolleyes:).

But he has a good track record unlike the satanic Lord Ahmed and his side-kick Baroness Warsi (who speak with 'forked-tongue').

I'll track down another link later when I get a bit more time.

http://www.communities.gov.uk/speeches/corporate/combattingantisemitism

[maven]

Throughout the day BBC New 24 has been shamefully using this conference as an opportunity to try to defend anti-Israeli sentiment.

When talking about the statistics of an increase in attacks on Jews the BBC anchor asked each guest "Do you really believe that there has been an increase in attacks on Jews" i.e. Are Jews lying that they are being attacked?

And he said "Is it not understandable that there are more attacks after the action in Gaza?" No BBC, it is NEVER understandable in terms of an excuse to attack anyone or smash their parents graves on the grounds of their race or relegion.

Would they ask if it was understandable if Muslims were attacked because of homicide bombings?

The BBC reporter at the conference ended every interview with a guest by saying "Why is this only a conference on anti-Semitism? Why not racism and Islamophiobia?

And everytime the subject comes up the BBC are careful to point out that anti-Israel feeling is not anti-Semitism.

How shameful that the BBC is using a conference on anti-Semitism to spread it's own leftist brand of anti-Semitism.

That's why Israel needs a Newschannel!

[Mediocrates]

It seems like a waste of time. They're talking to other Jews. Yeah we all agree there's a problem, no what?

[Yala]

Throughout the day BBC New 24 has been shamefully using this conference as an opportunity to try to defend anti-Israeli sentiment.

When talking about the statistics of an increase in attacks on Jews the BBC anchor asked each guest "Do you really believe that there has been an increase in attacks on Jews" i.e. Are Jews lying that they are being attacked?

.....



And everytime the subject comes up the BBC are careful to point out that anti-Israel feeling is not anti-Semitism.

How shameful that the BBC is using a conference on anti-Semitism to spread it's own leftist brand of anti-Semitism.

That's why Israel needs a Newschannel!

Do Jews in the UK really think this stupid conference is going to do something? It is just giving the BBC and others a chance to discuss how they hate Israel more. Someone will bring up the Holocaust and then people will say "oh here the Jews again are exploiting the Holocaust."



And he said "Is it not understandable that there are more attacks after the action in Gaza?" No BBC, it is NEVER understandable in terms of an excuse to attack anyone or smash their parents graves on the grounds of their race or relegion.

Would they ask if it was understandable if Muslims were attacked because of homicide bombings?

Spot on.


The BBC reporter at the conference ended every interview with a guest by saying "Why is this only a conference on anti-Semitism? Why not racism and Islamophiobia?

Doesn't this argument remind you of the one anti-Semites on the far right make which is "why do the Jews make the Holocaust all about themselves, and not about the Russian soldiers who died, etc.?"

BBC and the far right are mirror images of each other.

[Sharona]

BBC and the far right are mirror images of each other.


Actually, I'd say that the BBC's mirror is so grimy that it's unable to see much at all.

[Y. Shulamith]

Israel needs a newschannel AND some savvy PR people, too, to help remedy the situation with non-stop AlJazeera crap-o-la.:clap:

[Yala]

Bring back Dan Gillerman!

[maven]

If there is an anti-semitism conference, how will it sit with our esteemed leaders probably going off to participate in Durban 2? Obama is going but the Canadian man isn't.

I put up a thread about this after having read Melanie Phillips blog.

It's worrying.

Melanie classes it as a 'hate-fest' and mentions one possible aim to be that of delegitimising Israel because it is a 'racist' situation.

In a reply, one reader says that Melanie is not seeing the overall picture - Durban 2 is also aimed at the West and includes drafting new laws in respect of religion; laws that would make speaking out against Islam (demonstrating 'Islamophobia') even more difficult.

I don't know much about Durban 2 but it sounds very worrying and I believe there is some kind of lobby in the USA against Obama going. I doubt we've got anything like that in the UK. We don't know how to begin uniting.London anti-Semitism summit fires Durban repeat warning
12 hours ago

LONDON (AFP) — Some 120 lawmakers from 40 countries meeting here Tuesday published a plan for tackling renewed anti-Semitism -- and warned that the upcoming world conference on racism must be no repeat of the last.

Delegates at a two-day summit drew up the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism, containing recommendations for stamping out hatred against Jews, -- and a no-nonsense line on the forthcoming Durban Review Conference.

The conference on racism, to be held in Geneva from April 20 to 24, is a follow-up to a controversial summit held in Durban, South Africa, in 2001 which ended in acrimony amid accusations of anti-Semitism.

Several countries have threatened to pull out should it head towards a repeat of 2001, branded a "disgraceful event" here.

The London declaration said the world must "not be witness or party to another gathering like Durban."

The lawmakers urged their governments and the United Nations "never again to allow the institutions of the international community to be abused for the purposes of trying to establish any legitimacy for anti-Semitism."

The declaration called for the establishment of an international task-force of Internet specialists to measure racism and anti-Semitism online and propose international responses.

It also called for the exposure and isolation of governments and politicians engaging in hate against Jews, and urged the European Union to address the issue of combating anti-Semitism.

Foreign Office minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown warned of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks across Europe in the wake of the recent Gaza conflict.

"This conference should be unnecessary because it's a terrible, terrible, terrible comment on our times that we should be meeting now in 2009 on the subject of anti-Semitism," he told delegates.

The former UN deputy secretary-general added: "I myself was at the first Durban Conference and have never seen such disgraceful event in quite a long international life."

He branded it "a low point of international affairs and one that I certainly won't be party to again."

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hhqiyWHxYNdZdDdxXXUexOQ3urig

BBC News 24 and SKY News, Britain's main newschannels have since yesterday afternoon as good as suspended practically all coverage of the event or reduced it to the point that it is negligable. Presumably this is because for a large proportion of the British population any positive reference to Jews is deeply offensive.

The conference has not even been mentioned on Al Jazeera English while the main news channel covering the ME (partly based in Londinistan); Press Tv Iran, has not only ignored the summit but stepped up their anti-Semitic propaganda.

[Yala]

BBC News 24 and SKY News, Britain's main newschannels have since yesterday afternoon as good as suspended practically all coverage of the event or reduced it to the point that it is negligable. Presumably this is because for a large proportion of the British population any positive reference to Jews is deeply offensive.

The conference has not even been mentioned on Al Jazeera English while the main news channel covering the ME (partly based in Londinistan); Press Tv Iran, has not only ignored the summit but stepped up their anti-Semitic propaganda.


Why should they report on it? Is this conference important? Will it accomplish anything? Did they even mention the role of the BBC, Al Jazeerah, George G, the Guardian or the hateful Imams in all this? Did they mention even one person by name? Nah, it's just some bored people and politicians who like to hear the sounds of their own voices, voicing politically correct nonsense, and then eating some free breakfast. yawn.

About Durban, if it was so bad, why are they having the same exact conference again, and even at the same place? And we are even footing the bill to pay for this circus. Only Canada stood up and said they will boycott the event.

[maven]

There is very little coming out of this conference, it has no website, It's discussions are not being reported on the newschannels, no-one knows what they are doing or saying. We had a speech of Lord Malloch-Brown relayed to us via Google news website regarding Durban 2 and that's it.

What reception it has had from the BBC and SKY news is for want of a better word hostile.

Is this some sort of private club dinner or does it have any relevance to anyone outside?

[Yala]

There is very little coming out of this conference, it has no website, It's discussions are not being reported on the newschannels, no-one knows what they are doing or saying. We had a speech of Lord Malloch-Brown relayed to us via Google news website regarding Durban 2 and that's it.

What reception it has had from the BBC and SKY news is for want of a better word hostile.

Is this some sort of private club dinner or does it have any relevance to anyone outside?

No relevance whatsoever. I just hope this British anti-Israel, pro-jihad nonsense doesn't spill over to here.

[maven]

Leon Symons
February 19, 2009
Experts from around the world hammer out groundbreaking document aiming to clamp down on antisemitism worldwide

The first London Conference on Antisemitism brought together 125 parliamentarians from 40 countries, alongside 80 experts in the field.

They spent two days closeted together — the week after the Community Security Trust confirmed that January was the worst month ever in Britain for antisemitic incidents, in the wake of Israel’s action in Gaza.

As Professor Irwin Cotler, former Justice Minister of Canada and a prime mover behind the conference, put it: “It’s one thing to get them all here. It’s another to get them to agree on a document like this: it is historic.” The London Declaration, as it is called, contains 35 resolutions which aim to stamp on modern antisemitism.

The Declaration calls on parliamentarians to speak out against antisemitism wherever they are and urges action from the UN.

It sends an unequivocal message to those who manipulated the Durban conference on racism in 2001 into a hate-fest against Israel and puts out the same signal to those attending the event in April: “Never again.”

There is a similar message to Iran, which has called for genocide against Israel. Professor Cotler said: “Iran is not mentioned by name but that is the country to which this resolution refers.

“There is no question that Iran has broken the genocide convention by threatening such action against Israel. But the UN has to do something about it and bring Iran to book because it clearly breaks the convention.”

Another resolution calls for governments to take “appropriate and necessary action to prevent the broadcast of explicitly antisemitic programmes on satellite television channels” and to pressurise host nations and broadcasters to halt such transmissions.

Again, this is a clear swipe at Iran’s state-backed Press TV, some of whose programming has come in for harsh criticism.

The conference says that teaching the Holocaust should be on the national school curriculum, along with racism, antisemitism and discrimination.

Delegates also called for the training of police, prosecutors and judges under guidelines established by the Office for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

The internet drew special attention, with a call for the establishment of a special task force of internet specialists to create a way to measure antisemitism on the web.

Professor Cotler said: “This is the most important document that has come out on the question of antisemitism from any forum.

“This is a landmark document, not only in the manner in which it speaks to the contemporary manifestations of antisemitism — state-sponsored, genocidal, boycott — but in its plan of action for governments, parliamentarians and civil society.

“Moreover, it could be applied to other forms of race hatred. This document is not just for Jews. There are fundamental principles involved that can be applied to any form of race hate.”

Stephen Rubin, who has chaired the lay side of the steering committee behind the conference, paid tribute to John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Antisemitism, as “the driving force behind this conference”. David Harris of the American Joint Committee commented: “I am impressed by the people who were here and the sense of urgency has been quite striking.

“I’ve been to many conferences where there’s an underlying sense of ‘business as usual’ or ‘what’s new’. Here, there was the feeling that antisemitism has grown to new heights, and presents a clear and present danger that needed to be tackled in a clear way. The real test for us will be the aftermath. As good as this has been, what will determine its ultimate value will be what results from it.”

Community cohesion minister Sadiq Khan welcomed the London Declaration, saying that “it should be used as a floor rather than a ceiling, and shows us that we should all strive to do more.

“I am really pleased that there have been practical, constructive proposals coming out of the conference. After talking to some of the parliamentarians about the situation in other countries, we in the UK can be pretty proud that we are light years ahead of some of them in combating antisemitism. I had not quite understood how bad it is in other parts of the world, including some parts of Europe where they should have tackled this already.

“The point about the majority of delegates being non-Jews is very important. We need to understand the psychological trauma that the Jewish community goes through when antisemitism rises and this demonstrates the solidarity of the non-Jewish community with the Jewish community.”

The genesis of the London Conference was the Global Forum on Antisemitism in Israel a year ago.

MP John Mann had attended the Israel conference twice. Two things, according to Community Security Trust chief executive Richard Benson, concerned him:

“He was almost the only non-Jew present and the ‘take-aways’ — decisions and recommendations to be taken away from the conference to follow through — were very limited. He was very concerned about what he was getting from this.”

The experience made Mr Mann determined to change the dynamic surrounding such events. He contacted Professor Cotler and between them they formed the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism (ICCA), inviting US Congressman Chris Smith to join them.

The London delegates dealt with five themes: internet hate, policing and prosecution, the new antisemitism, antisemitism in the international arena and antisemitic discourse.

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http://www.thejc.com/articles/pioneering-move-%EF%AC%81ght-race-hate