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I dagens Jerusalem Post kan man læse om et enestående forsøg på at
forbyde jødedommen i Rusland:

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Mass call to outlaw Jewish groups

JPost staff and JTA, THE JERUSALEM POST
Apr. 3, 2005

Over 5,000 known public activists and members of the clergy in Russia
have sent a petition to the state prosecutor's office in which they
demand to outlaw Jewish groups.

In the petition, the signatories use quotes from Kitzur Shulhan Aruch,
which they argue prove their claim that Judaism is a fanatic and racist
religion that hates gentiles.

Among those who signed the letter, according to Army Radio, are
ex-generals, artists and the former world champion in chess.

Israel's Ambassador to Russia, Arkadi Milman, called the new affair
severe and said that Israel will contact Russian authorities in an
attempt to prosecute those responsible for the petition.

The recent anti-Semitic petition comes two months after about 20
members of the lower Russian parliament house, the State Duma, asked
Prosecutor-General Vladimir Ustinov to investigate their claims that
Jews are fomenting ethnic hatred and provoking anti-Semitism.

Arguing that Jews were to blame for anti-Semitism, the authors of the
letter demanded that Jewish groups be outlawed, based on legislation
against extremism and fomenting ethnic discord.

However, in a 306-58 vote that hewed to party lines, the State Duma
adopted a declaration saying that the 'clear anti-Semitic intent' of the
letter and other appeals for government actions targeting Jews 'prompts
indignation and sharp condemnation.'
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Alligevel, 58 medlemmer stemte for et klart antisemitisk forslag,og
afstemningen fulgte nøje partilinierne. Vi kan med det samme formode at
det fascistiske Shirinovsky-parti har stemt for, men hvilke andre?

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The stunning calls to ban all Jewish groups comes amid concerns of
persistent anti-Semitism that continues to plague Russia.

Jewish leaders have praised President Vladimir Putin's government for
encouraging religious tolerance, but rights groups accuse the
authorities of failing to adequately prosecute the perpetrators of
anti-Semitic and racial violence.

Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, said the lawmakers were either
insane or 'quite sane but limitlessly cynical' and were hoping to win
support 'by playing the anti-Semitic card.'

With Putin planning to join events this week commemorating the
liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops, Russia's Holocaust Foundation
head Alla Gerber said it was 'horrible that as we're marking the 60th
anniversary of this tragic and great day... we can speak of the danger
of fascism in the countries that defeated fascism.'

She said that while the Russian state itself is no longer anti-Semitic,
there are 'anti-Semitic campaigns that are led by all sorts of
organizations.'

'The economic situation is ripe for this, an enemy is needed, and the
enemy is well-known, traditional,' Gerber said.

Echoing anti-Semitic tracts of the Czarist era, the letter's authors
accuse Jews of working against the interests of the countries where they
live and of monopolizing power worldwide. They say the United States
'has become an instrument for achieving the global aims of Judaism.'

'It is possible to say that the entire democratic world today is under
the monetary and political control of international Judaism, which
high-profile bankers are openly proud of,' the letter says.

Along with outlawing Jewish organizations, the lawmakers called for the
prosecution of 'individuals responsible for providing these groups with
state and municipal property, privileges and state financing.'


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Ja, men vi ved også at der findes neonazistiske grupper i Rusland, som
på samme tid hylder såvel Hitler som Stalin ...
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Per Erik Rønne