Mary Robinson has a long opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune in which she states that Europe must do more to fight anti-semitism:
Last month in Berlin a man wearing a pendant with the Star of David was attacked on a bus by a group of teenagers who spat on him, kicked him in the face and shouted anti-Semitic insults. A day earlier in Vienna a rabbi was physically assaulted by two young people as he was walking home from prayer. In Minsk, Belarus, vandals desecrated a memorial at Yama, which marks the site where 100,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II, spraying Nazi slogans, swastikas and threats. And in London, vandals desecrated 386 Jewish graves at the Plashnet Cemetery in East Ham.
Each of these attacks and desecrations of Jewish sites took place in the last month. None have received much public attention. But they are illustrative of a growing pattern of anti-Semitic attacks that has escalated dramatically since 2001.
In a report published last year the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights found “an alarming rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Europe.” The committee noted that with the exception of Jewish organizations and some human rights and anti-racism groups, “the world community – governments, intergovernmental organizations and nongovernment organizations alike – has not responded adequately to this growing problem. Anti-Semitism is racism. Anti-Semitic acts need to be confronted more forcefully and treated as serious violations of international human rights.”
We agree, Europe should do more. But who the hell does Mary Robinson think she is to lecture anyone on anti-semitism? You remember, of course, that Mary Robinson was the chief architect of the virulently anti-American and anti-semitic “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.” You remember that, don’t you:
At the conference, Robinson presided over little more than an intellectual pogrom against Jews and Israel. She remained largely silent as the preliminary Asian Regional Conference in Tehran (to which Israel was excluded) inserted blatantly racist statements into the conference agenda. She failed to speak out when, on the grounds of the U.N. conference itself, the Arab Lawyers Union distributed pamphlets depicting hook-nosed Jews as Nazis spearing Palestinian children. In the same tent where nongovernmental organizations depicted Israel as a “racist, apartheid state,” were distributed fliers entitled, “What if Hitler had won?” The answer: “There would be no Israel, and no Palestinian bloodshed.”
These idiots really don’t think we are paying attention.