February 17, 2004

Does Anti Israel mean Anti Semitic?

The controversy last year regarding the UK Independent's cartoon of Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian baby has re-surfaced with Britain's PM Tony Blair being accused of taking advice from a secret cabal of Jewish advisers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42545-2004Feb14.html

One of the striking features of the debate is that Jews themselves can be found prominently on both sides. Billionaire George Soros recently said the policies of President Bush and Sharon were contributing to the rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. Abraham H. Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League in turn branded Soros's remarks "absolutely obscene."

"There are deep divisions within the Jewish community," said Sidney Brichto, a U.S.-born rabbi who has lived here for four decades and heads the Israel Diaspora Trust, a nonprofit group. "In the 1980s the argument was between hawks and doves. Now it's whether or not anti-Semitism is or isn't a threat."

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