A/50/476 English Page 7 first for the United Nations. However, in your discussion of various manifestations of anti-Semitism, you make several statements which are inaccurate and troubling. In paragraph 22 you write that anti-Semitism is ’compounded by the economic power of the Jews’. Such a statement is problematic, endorsing one of the most pervasive - and ungrounded stereotypes about Jews: that they are especially materialistic, are greedy, and wield disproportionate economic power. You will no doubt agree that such charges are neither accurate nor made with discriminatory purpose against other groups, such as the Swiss Protestants who run many of Geneva’s most powerful banks. Yet by citing this stereotype as a fact, you suggest that Jews are somehow to blame for discrimination against them; that it is somehow their own fault (because they wield economic power) that they are subjected to anti-Semitism. "In a later paragraph, 37, you write that anti-Semitism is further caused by ’certain adherents of Judaism [who] continue to treat Christ as an impostor’. This statement is troubling, for it implies both that some Jews have come to accept Christ, and that others actively set out to discredit him. What you should understand is that for Jews, as for all other non-Christians, Christ is a figure of solely historical and moral significance. This does not imply that Jews in any way disparage Christ; merely that the basis for Judaism is pre-Christian and independent of Christ’s teachings. Despite their manifest similarities, Judaism and Christianity are quite separate religions, with different belief systems and different pivotal figures." 5/ 12. As he has already had occasion to stress in his written and oral replies 6/ to the comments which have been communicated to him, the Special Rapporteur wishes to stress that the opinions expressed in these paragraphs are not his own. He has endeavoured, in seeking the causes of anti-Semitism, as he has done in the case of negrophobia, to take stock of the reasons advanced in explanation of these phenomena. 13. The Rapporteur would also like to stress that it was as a consequence of his preliminary report to the Commission on Human Rights in February 1994 that, with his approval, his mandate was extended to include the question of anti-Semitism, which he considers to be a form of racial discrimination which has led to one of the greatest scourges that the world has known in the past and continues to experience today. 2. The situation of housekeepers of Indian, Sri Lankan, Bengali and Philippine origin in Kuwait 14. Referring to aspects of a study which had been transmitted to him by the organization Middle East Watch/Women’s Rights Project, 7/ the Special Rapporteur, included, in paragraph 108 of his report, the following observations: "In Kuwait, housekeepers of Indian, Sri Lankan, Bengali and Philippine origin are now targets of rape, physical assault, non-payment of salaries, debt bondage and abusive work conditions because of their nationality. /...