[AFP] The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which rules Gaza on Tuesday blamed what it called a "Jewish lobby" in the U.S. for the global financial crisis. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said the crisis was due to "bad administrative and financial management and a bad banking system put into place and controlled by the Jewish lobby." He said the lobby "controls the U.S. elections and defines the foreign policy of any new administration in a manner that allows it to retain control of the American government and economy." The Anti-Defamation League said last week that the U.S. financial crisis has provoked an outpouring of anti-Semitism. "The age-old canards about Jews and money are always just beneath the surface," said ADL national director Abraham Foxman.
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