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Al-Ahram Weekly. “I think attacks on [Israeli] citizens in fact boost
morale.”

The French Interior Ministry reported that in the first two weeks
o f April 2002 nearly 360 anti-Semitic crimes were reported to police.
Incidences ranged from anti-Jewish graffiti to the burning and
desecration o f Jewish synagogues and graves. Many feel that French
President Jacques Chirac can or will do nothing, especially since
there are 700,000 Muslim voters in his nation.

Germany is also taking part in this growing hatred o f the Jews,
again. Public criticism, even from government officials, has
demanded that Israel stop bullying the “poor” Palestinians.
Demonstrators are seen in German streets holding children on their
shoulders with mock explosives wrapped around their waists, calling
for Israel’s destruction. One police official even suggested that Jews
in Germany not wear any jewelry or other articles that identify them
as Jews. What has happened to their shame over the Holocaust?

Italian political commentator Oriana Fallaci wrote o f her
embarrassment at Europe’s treatment o f Israel in her article “On Jew-
hatred in Europe.”

I find it shameful that in Italy there should be a procession o f
individuals dressed as suicide bombers who spew vile abuse at
Israel, hold up photographs o f Israeli leaders on whose foreheads
they have drawn the swastika, incite people to hate the Jews.

I find it shameful that the Catholic Church should permit a
bishop, one with lodgings in the Vatican no less, a saintly man
who was found in Jerusalem with an arsenal o f arms and explo­
sives hidden in the secret compartments o f his sacred Mercedes,
to participate in that procession and.. .thank in the name o f God
the suicide bombers who massacre the Jews in pizzerias and
supermarkets.

I find it shameful that in France, the France o f Liberty-Equality-
Fratemity, they bum synagogues, terrorize Jews, profane their
cemeteries. I find it shameful that the youth o f Holland and
Germany and Denmark flaunt the kaffiah [an Arab headdress]