{"id":424,"date":"2003-11-27T20:38:41","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T23:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=424"},"modified":"2003-11-27T20:38:41","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T23:38:41","slug":"anti-semitism-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Anti-semitism and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he BBC focusses on anti-semitism in Europe and asks 12 experts the unevitable question: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3234264.stm\">is anti-semitism really on the rise in European countries?<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is no surprise that nearly all experts mention the fact that too many people confuse criticism on Israel with anti-semitism.\n<\/p>\n<p class=quote>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;The right-wing in Israel describes every criticism of the country as a form of anti-Semitism. It is very convenient for the present government &#8211; which is the most right-wing in Israel&#8217;s history and headed by a prime minister who has not taken the smallest initiative in the direction of a diplomatic effort in the peace process &#8211; to blame everything on anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC focusses on anti-semitism in Europe and asks 12 experts the unevitable question: is anti-semitism really on the rise in European countries? It is no surprise that nearly all experts mention the fact that too many people confuse criticism &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}