-Caveat Lector- Annual report predicts global increase of anti-Semitism
By The Associated Press Anti-Semitic acts rose sharply in the world after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States and jumped again after Israel's incursion into the West Bank last month, according to Israeli experts who published a report Monday. In its annual report on worldwide anti-Semitism, a Tel Aviv University team said there were 228 violent acts committed against Jews or Jewish property in the world in 2001, 50 of them major attacks involving weapons. The report noted there was a significant increase in attacks in western Europe after the terror attacks in the United States and briefly mentioned a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in western Europe in the past weeks on Jewish schools, synagogues and cemeteries. Avi Beker, Secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, said the report was outdated because it did not include the recent attacks. "These last 10 days have been the worst anti-Semitic days in the history of Europe since the end of World War II," he said in a statement. "Today no Jew with a (skullcap) on his head feels comfortable walking the streets of any city and town in Europe. He knows that he is a target," Beker said. The recent wave in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe coincided with the March 29 Israeli military offensive into Palestinian- controlled areas of the West Bank after a string of Palestinian attacks that killed dozens of Israeli citizens. The September increase was linked to the UN World Conference against Racism and Xenophobia in Durban, South Africa and the attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, the report said. The report said the Arab and Muslim world transformed the UN conference "into a well-planned and organized ... campaign against Israel and the Jewish state." The report noted that anti-Semitic publications such as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" were freely available during the conference. The attacks in Washington and New York, two days after the end of the conference, generated an increase in anti-Semitic acts, the report said. "Anti-Semitic propaganda focused on the claim that the attacks were primarily a reaction to Jewish influence in the U.S.," the report said. Some media reports asserted that Israelis, or American Jews, were responsible for the attacks. The increase in anti-Semitic acts blurred the distinction between anti-Israeli acts and attacks against Jews, the report said. The significant September increase in anti-Semitism was especially notable in the United Kingdom and France, countries with large Muslim populations, the report said. The report was published on the eve of Israel's annual Holocaust memorial day for the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. The report noted that anti-Semitic expressions "negating the uniqueness of the Holocaust, heard from government officials, or leading intellectuals, in Western Europe" were of "special concern." The report specifically mentioned an anti-Israeli comment allegedly made by the ambassador of France to Great Britain, prominently reported in Israeli papers. It also criticized Nobel prize-winning author Jose Saramago's comparison of Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the murder of Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp last week during his visit to the West Bank. The 228 anti-Semitic violent acts recorded in 2001 were slightly lower than the 255 attacks carried out in 2000, the report said. However, anti-Semitic activity of the past two years was in marked contrast to a significant decrease in anti-Semitic activity in the years 1995-99. 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