According to the Copenhagen newspaper Politiken Friday June 12, the European Jewish Congress (EJC) announced yesterday that the DDP is no longer to be branded as a 'radical right wing party'.

European Jewish Congress removes Danish People's Party from list of 'right wing extremist parties', that recently celebrated victories in the EU-parliament.

The Danish People's Party is no longer lumped together with right wing radical parties such as Geert Wilders' Freedom Party (PVV) in Holland.

This was announced by the European Jewish Congress (EJC), which is an umbrella organization for Jewish organizations in Europe.

ECJ had expressed great concern because of the turn to the right under the EU parliamentary elections, and wrote in an official statement to the EU:

'The Danish People's Party and others will regrettably fire up under those who embrace dangerous concepts such as extreme nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia'.

Danish Jews put pressure on the European Jewish Congress

The Jewish religious community in Denmark (Mosaisk Trossamfund) in Denmark has applied pressure to the Jewish organization in order to have the Danish People's Party removed from the list of right wing radical parties.

The Danish People's Party does not indulge in anti-Semitic statements. I am not a member of the party myself, and I haven't been asked to interfere on behalf of the Danish People's Party, but things got to be right when one expresses criticism', says Finn Schwarz chairman of the Jewish religious community in Denmark.

The Danish People's Party is not anti-Semitic

That's why Finn Schwarz wrote an e-mail to the president of the European Jewish Congress, and asked the organization to withdraw their criticism of the Danish People's Party.

'The Danish People's Party is a democratic party that beliefs in democratic traditions and is a regular partner of the two governing center right parties. The Jewish religious community has had a good co-operation with most of the important parties in Parliament, and the Danish People's Party is no exception', Schwarz wrote in the e-mail.

Wilders remains on the list

At a meeting on Thursday the EJC decided to remove the Danish People's Party from the alert against the 'rabid groups' on their home page, such as Geert Wilders' Freedom Party in Holland (PVV), The Freedom Party in Austria (FPÖ), the British National Party and the Hungarian Movement for the Betterment of Hungary (Jobbik), which according to the Jewish organization regrettably fire up under those who embrace dangerous concepts such as extreme nationalism, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia'.

Source: Politiken June 12, 2009 - Jøder sletter DF fra sort liste

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