Libertas says it will ally itself with the Zionist Simon Wiesenthal Centre, hours after one of the party’s candidates described the centre as ‘beneath contempt’.June 3, 2009: Libertas Leader Declan Ganley today announced that the Libertas pan-European movement will ally itself with the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in a joint commitment to defend against and actively fight racism and antisemitism within the European Parliament and other European Institutions.Libertas is dedicated to ensuring that hatred and intolerance are challenged and defeated wherever such cancers exist. Libertas and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre also share concern at the growth of extremist groups and parties across the EU and will not refrain from challenging and rooting out such groups,parties and individuals wherever they manifest themselves.”
Libertas leader Declan Ganley said the new alliance is in order to fight racism and anti-Semitism within the European Parliament.
He said Libertas and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre ‘share concern at the growth of extremist groups and parties across the EU’.
Earlier, Dublin candidate Caroline Simons had described the centre as beneath contempt and said it was ‘only a matter of time’ before the establishment got so desperate that they resorted to calling Libertas Nazis.
‘The only surprise here is that we had to wait so long before they could find a willing idiot to come and say it’, she said.
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