EU rights conference to give equal billing to anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred
Source: Jerusalem Post
Jewish organizations say that anti-Semitism is distinct from other types of discrimination, should not be conflated with other issues.
Jewish organizations worldwide expressed shock and dismay over the weekend following the announcement that the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency is planning on holding a conference that implies an equivalence between anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
The first Annual Colloquium on fundamental rights in the EU, entitled “Tolerance and respect: preventing and combating anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe,” will be held in Brussels in early October. It will focus both on the rise of anti-Jewish sentiment and violence across the continent and the “growing evidence in many European countries, especially in the past two years, of very high rates of anti-Muslim incidents, including acts of verbal and physical violence,” according to organizers.
However, while the issue of Islamophobia is very important, Jewish community leaders both in Europe and abroad told the Jerusalem Post, they stressed despite being largely supportive of the FRA’s work, they believed it inappropriate for it to juxtapose hate directed against Muslims with anti-Semitism as if both were one and the same.
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