Thursday, April 29, 2004

Hey, kids -- where can you find the latest example of "the new anti-Semitism"?

On a left-wing college campus?

In France?

Nope.

Among our new buddies in Iraq:

Iraq pledges to honor Arab boycott of Israel

DAMASCUS, Syria - The campaign for the Arab boycott of Israel expressed satisfaction Thursday that Iraq had pledged not to trade with the Jewish state....

The commissioner general of the Central Boycott Office, Ahmed Khazaa, read out a statement saying that the meeting had discussed "Israeli attempts to penetrate Iraq" through deals offered by the U.S.-led occupation forces.

Iraq "cannot but be against such attempts" by Israel to penetrate its markets, the statement said.

Speaking to reporters, Khazaa said the Iraqi delegation had assured the meeting that the U.S.-appointed Governing Council administration in Baghdad was "committed to the boycott rules and will not allow Israel to penetrate their territories in any form."...


--Haaretz/AP

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