Source: Yahoo! News
Wire Service: Reuters
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040621/wl_nm/un_antisemitism_dc_4
On June 21, 2004 Reuters reported, "Secretary-General Kofi Annan declared on Monday there was an 'alarming resurgence' of anti-Semitism in the world and called for U.N. bodies to adopt resolutions and investigate the ancient scourge. Greeted with a standing ovation, Annan opened the first U.N.-organized seminar dedicated to anti-Semitism in response to charges that the world body dwelled on Palestinian rights and deliberately ignored injustices to Israelis and Jews. 'When we seek justice for the Palestinians -- as we must-- let us firmly disavow anyone who tries to use that cause to incite hatred against Jews, in Israel or elsewhere,' Annan told the gathering, which included a wide spectrum of American Jewish groups and representatives of other religions. Annan said it was hard to believe that 60 years after the Holocaust that anti-Semitism was rearing its head. 'But it is clear that we are witnessing an alarming resurgence of this phenomenon in new forms and manifestations,' he said. 'This time the world must not, cannot be silent.'"