The data is pretty clear – and shows that attitudes towards Jews haven’t particularly changed in the six decades since the Holocaust.

Many Europeans believe the Jews dictate US policy in the Middle East, wield disproportionate global economic influence and talk too much about the Holocaust, according to a report released Monday by the Anti-Defamation League.

The report's findings found that significant numbers of people in five European countries continue to hold anti-Jewish stereotypes, said Abraham Foxman, national director of the US group.

"A large number of Europeans continue to be infected with anti-Jewish attitudes, holding on to classical anti-Jewish canards and conspiracy theories," Foxman said at a news conference where he presented the report.

The survey of 2,714 people in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland found that 51 percent of respondents believed that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the countries in which they live. In the Spanish sample, the figure was 60%. In France, only 39% agreed.

I wonder to what degree the survey reflects the failure to eradicate the hate that brought on the Holocaust, and to what degree it shows the Islamicization of Europe.

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I have only two questions.

1) What took so long?

2) Why did you put up with him in the first place?

The leader of a Pennsylvania Muslim center has resigned after telling a newspaper that a death sentence was warranted for best-selling author and critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliament member.

Fouad ElBayly said Wednesday he had stepped down as imam and president of the Islamic Center of Johnstown. He said the center's board members requested his resignation.

The request came after ElBayly's comments about Ali, who spoke April 17 at the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown.

"She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death," ElBayly was quoted saying in an April 22 story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

ElBayly, a native of Egypt who came to the United States in 1976, and Mahmood A. Qazi, the center's founder, had tried to get the university to cancel Hirsi Ali's appearance, saying her criticisms were unjustified and could create dissension in their community.

It has taken three weeks to get rid of this guy? I would have thought the mosque, if it wasn’t a center for radicalism, would have dumped him on day one. And do you mean to tell me that this guy had not previously shown signs of such radicalism – it just popped up now? Or is the reason for his departure the bad publicity, not the position he took?

And, of course, the question I really want answer is the one about his connections to terrorism and whether he will remain in this country.

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Hmmmmm! Alan Dershowitz has been tracking down precisely how anti-Semitic terrorism supporter Norman Finkelstein got hired at DePaul. Anybody recognize the name of the sponsor?

One detail of Dershowitz’s account of Finkelstein’s career stands out: After being “fired by ‘every school in New York,’” according to Finkelstein's own account, “radical Islamist Aminah McCloud – a follower of Louis Farrakhan – helped him land a job at DePaul.”

We know well that extremist academics have been systematically at work for decades hiring clones of themselves and replicating their ranks. But there has been little public naming and scrutiny of the backgrounds of exactly who has served on the committees responsible for the one-sided cloning and replication.

Learning more about the scholarship and activism of McCloud, for example, strikes me as a worthy enterprise. And, how about similarly checking into who exactly committed the dastardly deed of hiring the disgraced Ward Churchill?

I don’t know about you, but I sure do – she has been in the news quite recently, a key figure in stopping the presentation of a documentary on PBS.

• WETA appointed an advisory board that includes Aminah Beverly McCloud, director of World Islamic Studies at DePaul University. In an "unparalleled breach of ethics," Burke says, McCloud took rough-cut segments of the film and showed them to Nation of Islam officials, who are a subject of the documentary. They threatened to sue.

"This utterly undermines any journalistic independence," Burke wrote in an e-mail to WETA officials.

In an interview, McCloud said she showed a single video frame to a Muslim journalist who was not a Nation of Islam representative.

However, in a January e-mail, McCloud told Crossroads producers that she had spoken with Nation of Islam representatives and "invited them over to view this section." She also wrote that they were outraged "and will promptly pursue litigation."

Stewart, the WETA executive, said McCloud was admonished for "inappropriate" conduct.

So, not only is McCloud an advocate for pro-terrorist anti-Semites like Finkelstein, she was a leading figure in the censorship of a documentary critical of Islamist elements infiltrating American mosques. What is she doing teaching at an allegedly Catholic institution like DePaul?

Here is more information about the documentary and the campaign to get it shown.

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