Leaders of the Jewish diaspora meeting in Paris warned today that Israel's military offensive in Lebanon earlier this year had helped create a worsening climate of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere.
Delegates at the executive council of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) also heard president Edgar Bronfman describe Iran's nuclear program as "the worst danger we have faced since the Holocaust".
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Among several speakers warning of a growth in anti-Semitism, Dina Porat of the Tel Aviv Centre for Anti-Semitism and Racism Studies said that since "the start of the summer of 2006 there has been a change of atmosphere. Anti-Semitism has entered moderate opinion".
Ilam Moss of the European Jewish Congress said that "anti-Semitic views spread in Europe this summer. It helps define a climate which is by definition more serious than attacks on Jews in the street".
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/lebanon-war-worsened-antisemitism/2006/11/13/1163266444198.html
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