ZGram - 6/28/2003 - "The informational nuggets can be found in the middle"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny:  Now more than ever!

June 28, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Remember what I told you of the formula of how revisionist 
information is being disseminated, even within mainstream and what 
some might call hostile media?  It does like this, here vastly 
simplified:

Opening paragraph:  "Those blasted revisionist haters!"

Body of article:  "Here's what they claim:  This and this and 
this...Be your own judge!"

Closing paragraph:  "We must defy those blasted revisionist haters!" 
(Cue card:  "Applause!")

This article illustrates my point:

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Rights group: hatred of Jews at highest level since WWII

Anti-Semitism is rising at a rate unseen since the end of World War 
Two, fuelled in part by an explosion of hate sites on the Internet, 
Jewish leaders told an international conference on intolerance Monday.

 From just one Web site in 1985, there were now more than 4,000 
promoting terrorism, hate and historical revisionism, according to a 
report released at the conference held at the Paris headquarters of 
UNESCO, the UN scientific and cultural body.

The three-day conference, which plans to combat anti-Semitism through 
"education for tolerance", is attended by religious leaders and 
experts, as well as political representatives including Minister for 
Diaspora Affairs Natan Sharansky; U.S. congressman Robert Beauprez, 
Republican of Colorado; and France's Interior Minister Nicolas 
Sarkozy.

Also scheduled to attend are the United Nations High Commissioner for 
Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello and former NATO commander in 
Europe General Wesley Clark.

"Not since the end of World War Two has the world seen such a 
proliferation of anti-Semitism," Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the 
Simon Wiesenthal Center which preserves the memory of the Holocaust, 
said in a conference address.

"I believe that you have a new generation of professional haters who 
are serving as leaders, demagogues, and they're inspiring young 
people to do their bidding while they often hide," he told 
journalists earlier.

Hier cited cartoons in Western newspapers and a range of comments by 
leading Arab officials as evidence of the rise in anti-Semitism.

It was wrong to blame poverty or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for 
the upsurge, which could only be confronted by speaking out, he said.

"There is nothing new about the oldest hatred," he said. "Some will 
hide behind what Israel is doing... but those are just excuses, 
that's a ruse."

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal center, 
presented a report detailing 4,000 international Web sites that he 
said promote terrorism, hatred or Holocaust denial.

"We are seeing now a very sophisticated manipulation of the Internet 
by terrorists and their supporters," he said. "They are ahead of the 
curve in understanding the possibilities of the Internet."

But protesters outside, including many Jews and members of the 
Americans Against the War coalition, said Cooper had deliberately 
excluded radical Zionist groups from the list.

In a letter to the conference host, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro 
Matsuura, the protesters said the Wiesenthal center, "under the 
deceitful cover of the struggle against anti-Semitism, is on the 
contrary encouraging intolerance and racism in our societies."

Protesters also denounced the decision to invite Sharansky, who is 
also in charge of Jerusalem affairs, claiming he "is avidly against 
making even the slightest concession toward the Palestinians."

Two-thirds of the 313 acts of violence reported in France last year 
were directed at Jews, Hier said, while in Britain, new figures 
showed a 75 percent rise in anti-Semitic incidents.

The rise in attacks in France over the past year have been mostly 
attributed to Muslim youths of North African origin angered by the 
continued Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy told the conference he 
refused "categorically to explain the madness of anti-Semitism by the 
situation in the Middle East," and repeated his "zero tolerance" 
policy on all racially-motivated attacks.

Shimon Samuels of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Paris branch said 
anti-globalization protests had degenerated into attacks "on what 
they see as the vultures of society [who] are in most cases the 
United States and the Jewish people."

"They have taken the old stereotypes and simply modernized them... 
thereby proliferating and having a multiplier effect they were never 
able to do in previous decades," he said.

In his opening remarks, Matsuura said efforts to combat anti-Semitism 
include promoting unbiased teaching, revising school textbooks to 
reflect universal values and introducing classes on religious, ethnic 
and racial tolerance.

Beauprez said "Americans are all acutely aware of the devastating 
impact that hate crimes... have on innocent communities."

He said he had come to Paris to "express on behalf of the American 
people our solidarity with the victims of these [hate] crimes in 
France and wherever they have occurred."

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(Source: 
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=292472&contrassID=1&subContrassID=9&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y 
)