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Press Release
Antisemitism mirrors social mindset
Belgrade, April 1, 2013 |
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The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia
is embittered by the fact that anti-Semitic posters have spread over
downtown Belgrade these days. Unfortunately, not even such an open
manifestation of basest instincts comes as a surprise.
The Helsinki Committee has been documenting for
years that anti-Semitism in Serbia is suppressed but far from
eradicated. The Committee has been regularly warning domestic and
international public that Serbia’s anti-Semitism reflects the
mindset of the society that is still under strong influence of most
conservative, “patriotic” elites – the elites that, in fear of any
modernism and individualism, cannot let go the obsolete concept of
the ethnic state. |
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As it welcomes appropriate reactions by republican
and city authorities, the Committee hopes this scandalous event
would not end up once again as an “isolated” incident by extremist,
right-wing and clerical-fascist groupings. For, Serbia’s education
system, the media, ongoing court rehabilitations of WWII
collaborationists and other trends contrary to the values of the
modern times threaten with promoting xenophobia into predominant
value judgments of the coming generations, the future
decision-makers. |
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