The European Parliament reprimanded a Polish member for making anti-Semitic comments
in a paper bearing the assembly’s logo, the first-ever such sanction.
in a paper bearing the assembly’s logo, the first-ever such sanction.
The 27-nation European Union legislature rebuked Maciej Giertych for writing that Jews “form the ghettos themselves” and “it was only Hitler’s Germany that created the concept of forced separation.” The 33-page paper, published in February, is titled “Civilisations at war in Europe.”
Giertych’s tract is “a serious breach of fundamental rights,” Parliament President Hans-Gert Poettering, a German Christian Democrat, told the 785-seat assembly today in Strasbourg, France. “Tolerance and respect for others are important European values.”
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Date: March 14, 2007
By Jonathan Stearns
Posted: March 14, 2007
