Ian Traynor, Central Europe correspondent
Wednesday January 5, 2005
The Guardian
Switzerland's small Jewish community is in uproar over a government report which describes some Jewish youth as armed radicals and talks of the possibility of "violent extremism" by some Swiss Jews.
The country's main Jewish organisation is calling for the contentious passages to be cut from the report and for a meeting with the justice minister, a Swiss nationalist, to demand an explanation for the allegations which it denounces as "false," "outrageous," and "perhaps made in bad will".
The deputy head of the domestic intelligence service has had to apologise for its report and order the deletion of references to some Jewish students in Geneva as armed radicals.
But Swiss Jewish leaders remain angry that the amended version of the annual report from the Swiss domestic intelligence service, on the risks of political violence and extremism, retains claims that "violent anti-semitic acts could lead to vigilantism and violent Jewish extremism".
The original report released last August said: "Jewish political extremism manifests itself in the conduct of associations fighting for the Zionist cause." It singled out an association of Jewish students in Geneva.
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