"There's something that we refer to as psychological anti-Semitism"

The conference was overshadowed by two recent dramatic decisions which seriously harmed the standing of the Jews: the decision by the European Council to ban circumcision, and Poland's decision to prohibit kosher slaughter, a move adopted by other countries. 

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 "There's something that we refer to as psychological anti-Semitism," said Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Ukraine and the vice president of the Conference of European Rabbis. "This was also how it started 80 years ago, with laws passed against minor things, and everyone knows how it ended." 

Earlier, Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary-general of the European Council, appeared before the rabbis and told them in no uncertain terms: "The European Council was formed to combat racism and anti-Semitism. I want to make it unequivocally clear that in no way does the European Council wish to outlaw circumcision. There is no European country that bans circumcision. Those who made this decision have no legislative power. Their decision doesn't bind anyone. The only body that is authorized to take such a decision is the European Court of Human Rights, and they didn't make a decision on it, nor will they make such a decision." 

While Bleich enjoyed hearing those statements, he was not mollified: "We've heard this promise a thousand times, and it is calming, but the fact that it came up for public discussion -- it means that a taboo of sorts was broken."

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