From: wt0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Wendy Elizabeth Tuggle)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Fwd:Israel asks U.N. to act on neo-Nazi movement
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:25:15 GMT
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Subject: Israel asks U.N. to act on neo-Nazi movement
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (J.T. NGUYEN)
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:38:08 GMT
 
 
	UNITED NATIONS (UPI) -- Israel asked the United Nations Friday to take
legal and administrative measures to stop a wave of anti-Semitic
violence beingorchestrated by more than 1,000 organizations in Europe.
	The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Gad Yaacobi, declined
to name the organizations or countries involved in what he called a 
``universal phenomenon'' to revive the ``myth of heroism'' that existed
in Nazi Germany before World War II.
	Yaacobi met with the president of the U.N. General Assembly,
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Stoyan Ganev, to transmit a request from the
Israeli government that Ganev address the issue in the current session
of the body.
	Yaacobi also sent a letter to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
urging that ``it is the duty of the world to remember the atrocities of
the past and not to allow them to cast their shadow upon the future.''
	``Nations should enact appropriate legislation and severely punish
those who commit acts of racist violence,'' he said. ``It is our duty
and our mission to condemn this threat without hesitation, and to put an
end to it.''
	Israel has reacted strongly neo-Nazi attacks on foreign immigrants
and asylum seekers in Germany, as well as to the ``ethnic cleansing''
campaign carried out by Serbian forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina against
Muslims.
	Some Israeli politicians have called on their government to severe
diplomatic ties with Germany to protest the neo-Nazi movement.
	Yaacobi, in talks with reporters, praised the Bonn government for
taking the unprecedented decision to ban neo-Nazi groups, which have
been targeting foreign immigrants and migrant workers -- particularly in
east Germany.
	Yaacobi said ``hate crimes have targeted refugees, asylum seekers,
foreigners and others.'' He said there were 46 violent attacks against
Jews in 1990 and 61 in 1991, without specifying where those attacks took
place.
	In 1992, there have been 100 such incidents, plus some 250 cases of
threats, arson and damage to property, he said. ``Across Europe, there
are currently more than 1,000 organizations with an anti-Semitic
orientation,'' Yaacobi said.
	He said his government learned about those organizations through 
``very good sources'' studying the emergence of the anti-Semitic
movement.
	He attributed the violent demonstrations against immigrants in
Germany mostly to Germans living in the eastern part of the country who
had not received the ``background and norms of democratic culture and
who were influenced by the former Soviet communist system of propaganda.
''
	He said racist violence has spread to the Balkans with the ``ethnic
cleansing'' campaign in Bosnia-Herzegovina, mostly practiced by Serbs
against Muslim Slavs forced from their homes amid the bloodshed in the
former Yugoslav republic.
 
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