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Maciej Giertych's booklet bears a parliament logo on its cover and carries the usual caveat that the views expressed “do not present the official European parliament position”.
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BRUSSELS (EJP)--- The European Parliament said it has not contributed “neither financially nor materially” to the publication of an anti-Semitic brochure written by a non-attached Polish MEP.
The European Jewish Congress and several members of the European Parliament have denounced the publication of the booklet entitled "Civilizations at war in Europe" which was unveiled last Wednesday in Strasbourg by MEP Maciej Giertych.
The pamphlet bears a parliament logo on its cover and carries the usual caveat that the views expressed “do not present the official European parliament position”.
“No funding application for this brochure has been recorded at the present time,” the EU’s parliament said.
Maciej Giertych is a former head of the League of Polish Families and the father of Poland’s deputy prime minister, Roman Giertych.
The 32-page brochure claims that Jews are “biologically different” from “gentiles”, and “prefer to voluntarily live separately from the communities which surround them”.
“It is a great misunderstanding to consider anti-Semitism as racism,” the booklet reads. “The Jews of Poland are racially indistinguishable from the Poles.”
In its statement, the European Parliament said:“Following the rules adopted by the Bureau, the Parliament’s administration always checks the contents of materials for which a funding application is requested as well as its compliance with the European Parliament’s regulations and the fundamental values of the European Union,” the parliament said.
“Failure to comply with these conditions excludes all funding from the Institution’s budget”.
The European Parliament said it had already turned down a funding application by the same MEP as it failed to comply with the House’s regulations.