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A Jewish group protested that the city of Paris is funding an
anti-globalization event featuring a keynote speaker accused of
anti-Semitism. In a letter to Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe on
Monday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s director for
international liaison, Shimon Samuels, called on the
municipality to suspend more than $ million in funding to the
European Social Forum set for later this week because of the
presence of Swiss Muslim academic Tariq Ramadan. Ramadan, who
recently wrote an article accusing French Jewish philosophers of
abandoning their universalist values, is scheduled to speak on
the theme of “The Islam of Resistance to Global Order.” The
Jewish Community Council in Seine Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb,
recently refused to participate in an interfaith dialogue at the
forum because Ramadan was scheduled to participate.
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JTA-11.11.03