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Rabbi fears hatred

London: Britain's chief rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, gave warning on Sunday that a ``tsunami of anti-semitism'' was spreading globally. Speaking on BBC Radio 4, he said he was scared by its rise and ``very scared that more protests have not been delivered against it.'' In the first day of the year marking the 350th anniversary of the readmission of the Jewish community into Britain, Dr. Sacks said Holocaust denial and hatred of Jews were circulating widely. Asked what he thought of the recent comments by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's President, who claimed the Holocaust was a myth, he said: ``Sadly I wasn't surprised because Holocaust denial and other forms of anti-semitism ... have been circulating in best-selling books and prime-time television in parts of the world now for several years and this is all a kind of tsunami of anti-semitism which is taking place a long way from this county, but to which Europe seems unaware.'' —

© Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004

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