Ilke Schroeder doesn't mince words. The 25 year old German EU Parliament member said the following words on December 22nd, 2003:
"The Europeans," explained MP Schroeder, "supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States."
But wait- there's more!
"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. "The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."
So many Europeans protested being called anti-Semites by Sharon after their holding back on the EU anti-Semitism report, but it too verifies that the EU, both parliament and people, are stricken with an anti-Semitism problem.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=119115&contrassID=3&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0
The EU's previously withheld report on anti-Semitism
a Chronology of anti-Semitic attacks in Europe