Press Monitor Criticizes
Anti-Semitism Coverage

ARTHUR J. MAGIDA

Special to The Jewish News

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ress attention to
Eastern European an-
ti-Semitism has been
"limited and uneven,
although smaller publica-
tions have covered the sub-
ject in greater depth,"
claims Margaret Quigley in
Extra!, a bi-monthly critique
of the press published by the
New York-based group,
FAIR (Fairness and Ac-
curacy in Reporting).
Ms. Quigley, an archivist
for Political Research Asso-
ciates, Cambridge, Mass.,
also asserts that some press
efforts to explain anti-
Semitism use rhetoric that
appear "to reflect, not
report," the nascent anti-
Jewishness.
Among Ms. Quigley's ob-
servations:
• "Most reporting" on
Eastern Europe's nationalist
movements have euphemis-
tically referred to "Christian
values" and "Christian na-
tionalism" without explain-

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ing "the historic anti-
Semitism that echoes in
such rhetoric."
• Reporting has "general-
ly overlooked" Eastern
Europe's "historical alliance
with Nazism," such as
Romania's, Hungary's and
Bulgaria's alliance with the
Axis. A New York Times
timeline of Czechoslovakian
history leaped from March
15, 1939 to May 16, 1945. A
March 26 Times article on
the history of the Catholic
Church in Eastern Europe
jumped from the 1930s to the
post-war era, "skipping over
the murderously anti-
Semitic clerical fascist
movements."
• The Los Angeles Times
referred to the ruling
Hungarian Democratic
Forum's "politics of national
pride." It did not report
"recurring charges" of anti-
Semitism against the party.
• Explaining the new an-
ti-Semitism, both the New
York Times and the socialist
weekly, the Guardian, at-
tributed it to equating Jews
with the now-discredited
communism. Journalists are
"irresponsible," said Ms.
Quigley, to use this "stock in
trade" of anti-Semites.

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Soccer madness on the continent.

Pro-Nazi Soccer
Fans Trash Berlin

Soccer games in Europe
are often linked with high
passions and fatal riots, but
it took a little-noticed Sports
Illustrated article to show
the depths to which soccer on
the continent has plum-
meted.
After a West German team
won the 1990 World Cup in
Rome, more than 100,000
fans celebrated in the center
of West Berlin. Meanwhile,

several hundred right-wing
skinheads "tore through"
East Berlin's Alex-
anderplatz, "swinging clubs
and chasing Vietnamese
workers. Carrying the red,
white and black banners of
imperial Germany and
snapping the stiff-armed
Nazi salute, the hooligans
smashed store windows and
shouted, 'Foreigners to the
gas ovens.' "

