Anti-Semitism in Europe as bad as in 1930s [View All]

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Brussels - The United States ambassador to the European Union said on Thursday that anti-Semitism in Europe was nearly as bad as it was in the 1930s, a decade which saw the rise of German Nazism and led to the extermination of millions of Jews.

Speaking at a dinner given by the American Jewish Committee to launch a Transatlantic Institute in Brussels, Rockwell Schnabel said relations between Europe and the United States had improved since last year's acrimony over the US-led Iraq war.

"There is one issue that we can work on together," he said. "It is to overcome the issue of anti-Semitism which... is indeed - as I understand it and read - getting to a point where it is as bad as it was in the 30s."

He did not elaborate.

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