Scandal occurred in Romania. Country’s public television was fined half a million rubles for airing two television Christmas carols anti-Semitic content.
right during the festive concert known Romanian choir “Transylvanian love” sang a few songs that use the word “Jew” and call for violence done to the Jews, as a group, not chtyaschey Christian faith. Recording of the concert was televised.
condemned and protests about it immediately made the Embassy of Israel and the United States in Bucharest, the Romanian Foreign Ministry, the Council for Combating Discrimination, and the Institute for Holocaust Studies.
Only then in Romania going on Anti-Discrimination Board, describing the performance as an act of intolerance. A National Council for Audiovisual imposed on Public Television penalties for violation of the Law on Audiovisual banning broadcast programs in which any form of anti-Semitism and xenophobia manifested.
“Moldova also resent the rise of nationalism in Europe, particularly in Romania,” – said the correspondent “RG” Moldovan political analyst Andrei Burachev. He noted that in recent years in Romania rising nationalist sentiment. “The sounded on television carols proof. Nationalism in Romania is now gaining momentum due to the intention of the authorities of the country to pursue a policy of eastern expansion areas and absorption of Moldova in order to turn Romania into a” great “state”, – says Burachev. “It can not excite Moldovan public especially due to the fact that the Moldovan authorities are now working closely with the European Union, of which just a neighboring Romania”, – concluded the analyst.
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