Even een vertaling van fok.nl jatten; origineel artikel volgt hieronder in kleine letters:
Bush tekent antisemitisme-wet
In Amerika heeft president George Bush een wet tegen antisemitisme bekrachtigd. Deze wet houdt onder meer in dat het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken jaarlijks bijhoudt in welke landen uitingen van jodenhaat voorkomen.
Bush maakte de ondertekening van de wet vandaag bekend in Florida. Dat is een belangrijke staat tijdens de komende presidentsverkiezingen en bovendien de staat waar na Israël en New York de grootste joodse gemeenschap ter wereld woont.
Volgens Bush zal de VS de vinger aan de pols houden daar waar het gaat om antisemitisme: ''We zullen er voor zorgen dat dit nooit een voet aan de grond krijgt in de moderne wereld.''.
Vooraf was er enig verzet tegen de wet, omdat die ''onnodig'' zou zijn, daar het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken jaarlijks al een lijst bijhoudt van internationale schendingen van de mensenrechten en godsdienstvrijheid.
een oplettende "fokker" merkte echter het volgende op:
Citaat:
The bill, known as the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (H.R. 4230), was introduced by Congressman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), in response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor serving in the Congress. The bill requires the State Department to compile an annual report on anti-Semitism around the world, and establishes an office within the department to focus on the issue.
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Het wetsvoorstel kwam dus van de democraat Tom Lantos en Bush heeft het alleen maar hoeven te tekenen.
www.lantos.org
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Maar dat zal de kiezer een worst wezen, want men denkt nu dat die wet helemaal van eigen makkelij van de republikeinen is (n) Met als gevolg wellicht dat de joodse kiezers in Florida overgehaald zijn om op de republikeinen te gaan stemmen - vanwege protectie van eigen volk. Ik hoop niet dat de Floridanen (of hoe je ze noemt) zo stom zijn even niet verder te kijken dan hun neus lang is (en waag het niet om flauwe grappen te maken!).
Bush signs global anti-Semitism law
SUNRISE, Florida : US President George W. Bush said he had signed into law a bill requiring the State Department to monitor global anti-Semitism and rate countries annually on their treatment of Jews.
"This nation will keep watch; we will make sure that the ancient impulse of anti-Semitism never finds a home in the modern world," Bush said as he campaigned in the key battleground state of Florida. The state's Jewish population is the third largest in the world after Israel and New York.
The US State Department had opposed the legislation, saying it was unnecessary as the department already compiles such information in its annual reports on human rights and religious freedom.
"Defending freedom also means disrupting the evil of anti-Semitism," Bush told thousands of cheering supporters packed into a sports arena usually used by the Florida Panthers professional ice hockey team.
"Today, I signed the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. This law permits the government to keep a record of anti-Semitic acts throughout the world, and also a record of responses to those acts," he said.
Florida is the richest haul among the battleground states expected to decide the November 2 presidential election, with 27 electoral college votes out of the 270 needed to win.
Jewish voters are thought to favor Democrats historically, but the Bush campaign hopes that his strong support for Israel and aggressive outreach efforts could win a majority of Florida's sizeable Jewish community.
The State Department had drawn fire for its position from Jewish groups -- which wield significant political power especially during a presidential election year -- and in September, more than 100 prominent Americans signed a letter to US Secretary of State Colin Powell saying that stance was "wrong."
"The fight against anti-Semitism deserves specific, focused attention," said the letter which was signed by former Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp and ex-UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick among others.
The bill, known as the Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, was introduced by California Democratic Representative Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor in the US Congress, in response to recent acts of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Middle East.
Jewish groups have hailed passage of the bill which they said provided a new avenue to fight anti-Semitism.
Under the legislation, the State Department will have to produce an annual report on anti-Semitism around the world and form a specific office headed by a special envoy to document anti-Semitic abuses and design strategies to combat them.
It requires the department to document acts of physical violence against Jews, their property, cemeteries and places of worship abroad, as well as local governments' responses to them and take note of instances of anti-Jewish propaganda and governments' readiness to promote unbiased school curricula.
By tradition, Bush, who signed the legislation on his official Air Force One jet on his way to Florida, will treat the law's requirements more like strong advice and guiding principles because of the separation of powers.
- AFP
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stori...112049/1/.html
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