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 Monday December 23, 2002 17:05 by MG
 Dutch prosecutors reject ridiculous Israeli demand The global Israeli campaign against free speech suffered a setback today when Dutch prosecutors refused to lay charges against the wife of the European Central Bank president following comments she made about Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Pro-Israeli Jewish groups had asked prosecutors to investigate Gretta Duisenberg for hate crimes after she said she would be seeking six million signatures on a petition against Israeli military activities in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The groups said her use of the number six million was a deliberate reference to the number of Jews slaughtered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. They accused Ms Duisenberg of anti-semitism, a charge that has been laid against several leading politicians and academics who have spoken about the horrors perpetrated by Israeli soldiers during their 35-year-old illegal occupation of Palestine. Ms Duisenberg, who made the remark at a Palestinian solidarity rally, had already been the victim of a campaign by Jewish lobby groups when she hung the Palestinian flag from her balcony to express her support for Palestinian freedom. Ms Duisenberg said she hadn’t intended to offend Jews by inadvertently using the number six million during her comment. Today, the Dutch public prosecutor’s office dismissed the pro-Israeli groups’ request for legal action, saying Ms Duisenberg’s comments could not be seen as inciting racial hatred.
‘A strange kind of freedom’ by Robert Fisk: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=313235 ‘How to shut up your critics’ by Robert Fisk: http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk1023.html ‘The wolf who cried wolf’ by Junaid Alam: http://www.counterpunch.org/jalam1026.html ‘Israel and anti-semitism’ by Alexander Cockburn: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn0516.html ‘What is anti-semitism?’ by Michael Neumann: http://www.counterpunch.org/neumann0604.html ‘Hate in the campus’ by Alan Dershowitz: http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=22151 ‘Anti-semitism on the rise’ by Henry McDonald: http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=21989&start=50 |
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