Tony Blair Appointed as Head of European Body Fighting Antisemitism
The British former prime minister has been appointed as chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation. This came a week after he announced that he would stand down as the envoy of the quartet on the
In an article for the Times, he sets out his plans for his new role. Blair says that he will campaign against the abuse of religions which has become a "mask behind which those bent on death and destruction all too often hide".
Blair states that he will be campaigning to implement the recommendations of a report by the council which outlined legislative proposals to give greater power to judiciaries to prosecute hate speech, to lower barriers to what constitutes incitement to violence, and to make Holocaust denial illegal.
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