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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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Dr. Arthur S. Lieberman
Dr. Harris W. Mainster
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ing the prayer, Cantalamessa told the
Italian daily.
Cantalamessa, noting that Passover
and Easter fell this year in the same
week, quoted during the service from
a letter he said was from a Jewish
friend. The friend, Cantalamessa said,
wrote that he was "following the vio-
lent and concentric attacks against the
Church, the pope and all the faithful
by the whole world."
He quoted the friend as adding
that "the use of stereotypes, the shift-
ing from personal responsibility and
guilt to a collective guilt, remind me
of the more shameful aspects of anti-
Semitism."
The chief Vatican spokesman, the
Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the com-
parison was not "appropriate" and that
Cantalamessa's statement did not rep-
resent official Church thinking.
Stephan Kramer, the secretary gen-
eral of Germany's Central Council of
Jews, told the Associated Press that
Cantalamessa's remarks were "repul-
sive, obscene and most of all offensive
towards all abuse victims as well as to
all the victims of the Holocaust."
Anti-Semitism Up
JERUSALEM/JTA — Anti-Semitic
incidents around the world more than
doubled in 2009 over the previous
year, posting their worst year since
monitoring began two decades ago,
according to a new survey.
The total number of anti-Semitic
incidents was 1,129 in 2009 corn-
pared to 559 in 2008, according to
a report released Sunday by the
Stephen Roth Institute for the Study
of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and
Racism at Tel Aviv University.
The record number of incidents
— cases that show clear anti-Semitic
content and intention — included
566 incidents of vandalism of Jewish
property, which constituted 49 percent
of all incidents. Hundreds of incidents
against Jewish people and property
did not meet the criteria, according to
the institute. Incidents also go unre-
ported.
In Europe, Britain and France led
with the number of incidents, accord-
ing to the report. There were 374
violent incidents against Jews recorded
in Britain in 2009 compared to 112 in
2008, according to the institute. France
saw 195 attacks in 2009 compared
to 50 the previous year. Britain and
France have the highest Jewish popu-
lations in Europe as well as the largest
Muslim populations.
Only 78 incidents of anti-Semitic
violence were recorded in 1989, the
year that the institute began recording
such incidents. In 2009, some 41 of the
incidents were armed assaults directed
at Jews because of their religion; 34
incidents were arson, according to the
report.
The report was compiled and
released in cooperation with the
European Jewish Congress.
P.A., PLO Waivers
President
Obama issued waivers allowing the
transfer of funds to the Palestinian
Authority and extending the stay of
the PLO office in Washington.
Obama's waivers, issued on April
7, set aside laws dating back to the
1980s banning a Palestine Liberation
Organization presence in the United
States, and more recent laws requir-
ing strict reporting requirements for
any funds transfer to the Palestinian
Authority.
Obama's predecessor, George W.
Bush, in the final years of his presiden-
cy, raised funding for the Palestinians
from occasional spurts of $20 million
to $400 million annually.
Obama has budgeted $500 million
in assistance for the Palestinians;
much of this is directed to non-
profit groups, but about half of it goes
directly to the Palestinian Authority.
As his predecessors have done,
Obama cited national security con-
cerns in announcing both waivers.
The PLO office waiver must be
renewed every six months.
WASHINGTON/JTA
—
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan last week said
Israel is the main threat to peace
in the Middle East; and he implied
that Israel's Gaza policy amounts to
child murder.
The Answer
Although Turkey is Israel's closest
relationship in the Muslim world,
Erdogan's comments are incitement
and will harm that relationship as
well as inflame anti-Israel sentiment.
- Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Relations Council
of Metropolitan Detroit
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