Prague, Jan 12 (CTK) – The extremist server White Media is a sign of alarming rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Czech Republic, Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek (Social Democrats, CSSD) said yesterday.
It is necessary to fight anti-Jewish moods, Zaoralek said at the first meeting of Katharina von Schnurbein, EC coordinator on combating anti-Semitism, with partners from other countries and international institutions.
“I am afraid of attacks on minorities and Jews now taking place in European towns, even in the Czech Republic,” Zaoralek said.
He said not only Czech society had to take a lesson from history and prevent the hatred for Jews from leading to a tragedy similar to the Holocaust.
“Bearing in mind what was in the past, we must prevent this from repeating,” Zaoralek said.
The presence of anti-Jewish sentiments in the Czech Republic is evidenced by the server White Media that in the past weeks repeatedly leaked the content of the email of Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (CSSD) it hacked.
“It seems to me alarming that the server has listed the people who send their children to Jewish schools,” Zaoralek said.
“I have decided to speak about it with the interior minister, Sobotka and our partners in the USA and Israel,” he added.
Von Schnurbein said prevention of the spread of anti-Semitism through the Internet was one of the spheres to which she wanted to devote her efforts along with partnership countries and organisations.
She said education in the sphere of human rights and introduction of European legislation that bans Holocaust denial in all EU countries were her other objectives.
Von Schnurbein said prevention of discrimination in the sphere of services was her fourth priority.
