Yesterday, the International Herald Tribune reported:
The president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, angrily suspended a conference on anti-Semitism on Monday and accused two large Jewish groups of working against ‘‘our best and mutual interests.’’In their article for the FT, Benatoff and Bronfman had anticipated that the conference would be “a major test of European attitudes”.
Prodi sent a letter Monday to Cobi Benatoff, president of the European Jewish Congress, and Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, saying he was ‘‘surprised and shocked’’ by an article the two men had written that accused the European Commission, the European Union’s executive branch, of being anti-Semitic.
Prodi's cancellation of the event illustrates the European Commission's approach to anti-Semitism: They don't want to talk about it.
