A MEP has published a racist book financed by the EU

Jean Quatremer denounces the publication of an anti-Semitic booklet written by a Polish Member of European Parliament and financed by the European Parliament. "Do you want to know everything there is to know about the 'Jewish civilisation'? Everything about the 'biological differences' between Jews and 'nice people'? Everything about the impossibility of living with the 'Jewish civilisation' in Europe? Read the little book 'Civilisations at War in Europe', that the European deputy Maciej Giertych, one of the leaders of the Polish Family League. This masterpiece of anti-Semitism was presented, on Wednesday [14th of February], in Strasbourg, by its author. The reading of this booklet, featuring Parliament's logo, obligatory for all publications that it finances, takes us straight back to before the war. ... This literature from another era has left Hans-Gert Pottering, the Christian Democrat President of the European paliament speechless ..., but it is not sure that Parliament will be able to do anything..."

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