Blog : Philosémitisme

Au moins maintenant les choses sont claires.  L'Union européenne n'a jamais adopté cette définition - c'était juste un document de "travail" - et elle vient de l'abandonner définitivement, même à ce titre.  L'antisémitisme progresse en Europe et visiblement cette fameuse définition s'avérait inefficace à le faire baisser.  

Voir: UE: affirmer que l'Etat d'Israël a un caractère raciste ou nier son droit à l'existence est une forme d'antisémitisme (2005)

Via le blog américain Yourish: BRUSSELS (EJP)---Jewish groups have criticized the recent removal of the ??Working Definition of Anti-Semitism'? from the website of the Vienna-based Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), the European Union agency tasked with providing advice to the member states on fundamental rights of people living in the EU.

The ??Working Definition of Anti-Semitism'?was drafted in 2004 on the initiative of the European Union's Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), the predecessor of the FRA, and was considered a major achievement for the EU in the struggle against anti-Semitism.

The document was created in order to provide a practical guide for identifying incidents, collecting data and supporting the implementation of legislation dealing with anti-Semitism at a European level.

It was disseminated on the FRA website and units of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concerned with combating anti-Semitism also employ the definition. The US State Department's yearly report, ?Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism,? makes use of this definition for the purpose of its analysis. [...]

Contacted by the European Jewish Press about the issue, a FRA official in Vienna confirmed what the body told earlier to the BBC and said: "We don't foresee adding the working definition to our webpage. The FRA is not a standard-setting body and creating definitions is not part of our mandate. The EUMC working definition of antisemitism is not an official EU definition and has not been adopted by FRA".