Anti-Semitism? What’s that?

The EU decided last year — especially following the publication of the Mohammed cartoons — that it desperately needed a conference to discuss racism, xenophobia, islamophobia, and anti-Semitism in the media.

Guess which of the four subjects got dropped for the final topic list?

The original description of the conference received in Jerusalem in March said that the two-day seminar, which would be attended by a number of media personalities from Europe and the Arab world, would deal with racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

However all references to anti-Semitism had been removed from an updated description that the Foreign Ministry received on May 11, while a report on Islamophobia in the press was still on the agenda.

Israeli diplomatic officials said that the decision to eliminate the discussion of anti-Semitism was taken following pressure from Arab countries.

You know, there’s something almost like clockwork in these events. The same thing happens, over and over again, and then, after the Israelis get the shaft, the conference organizers always manage to get in one last hit:

Austria’s ambassador to Israel, Kurt Hengel, told the Post that the Euro-Med framework was the only forum where Israel and Arab countries sat together, and that “it wouldn’t be wise for the Israeli side not to take part in this type of forum, where it can make its point.”

Israel took place in a conference a long time ago, just before 9/11, in fact. It was the UN-sponsored Durban conference on racism, which turned into such a disgustingly anti-Semitic event that the U.S. and Israel walked out on it in disgust.

Leave it to Europe to have its head up its ass when it comes to noticing any form of Jew-hatred.