‘Tony Blair has announced his first new public role since resigning
as Middle East peace envoy, taking up a position to tackle anti-Semitism
and religious extremism across Europe.Writing in The Times, he sets out the issues that prompted him to take up the role of chairman of The European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), which campaigns for European countries to ban Holocaust denial and for governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools.
His move comes at a time of rising anti-Semitism in Britain and elsewhere, but will fuel criticism among Palestinians that he favoured Israel during his time as Middle East envoy for the Quartet of the US, European Union, United Nations and Russia.’
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