Irish Minister denounces ‘corrosive rise in racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric’ by politiciansBrussels, 24/01/2013 – Irish Justice Minister denounced the “corrosive rise in racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric by a malign minority of politicians” in some EU member states, as he addressed Tuesday an event commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European Parliament in Brussels.“It is a moral imperative that we unequivocally repudiate the reprehensible rhetoric of those who seek to contaminate our political discourse and attempt to inflame dangerous prejudice,” said the minister, whose country currenty chairs the rotating EU presidency.Shatter’s responsibilities also covers equality and defence.Stressing that it is no enough to remember, he said “we must also remember to act. We must do more under the rule of law to end intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism.””The Shoah did not begin in the death camps. It began with words of hate. Those words of hate becamle weapons of mass murder because good people closed their doors and windows shutters and remained silent.””Let us unite in our commitment to the victims of the Shoah and the lost generations to do all we can to ensure that the Holocaust of the 20th century will never again be repeated.”Link: http://www.ejpress.org/article/64632
Irish Minister denounces ‘corrosive rise in racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric’ by politicians
Irish Minister denounces ‘corrosive rise in racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric’ by politiciansBrussels, 24/01/2013 – Irish Justice Minister denounced the “corrosive rise in racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric by a malign minority of politicians” in some EU member states, as he addressed Tuesday an event commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the European Parliament in Brussels.“It is a moral imperative that we unequivocally repudiate the reprehensible rhetoric of those who seek to contaminate our political discourse and attempt to inflame dangerous prejudice,” said the minister, whose country currenty chairs the rotating EU presidency.Shatter’s responsibilities also covers equality and defence.Stressing that it is no enough to remember, he said “we must also remember to act. We must do more under the rule of law to end intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism.””The Shoah did not begin in the death camps. It began with words of hate. Those words of hate becamle weapons of mass murder because good people closed their doors and windows shutters and remained silent.””Let us unite in our commitment to the victims of the Shoah and the lost generations to do all we can to ensure that the Holocaust of the 20th century will never again be repeated.”Link: http://www.ejpress.org/article/64632