schantisemitism

**Committee: SCH** **Country: India **
 * Topic: Anti-Semitism**

 ** I. **__** COUNTRY PROFILE **__** : **

Republic of India Varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
 * A. **** Physical Geography **
 * 1. ** **Official Name of Country:**
 * 2. Climate: **
 * 3. **    [[image:http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/lgcolor/inlarge.gif width="290" height="325" align="left" caption="Map of India"]]

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a. ** **Location Absolute and Relative:**  20 00 N, 77 00 E; located in Southern Asia, bordering Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Burma, and also borders the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal ** b. Physical Features: ** upland plain, flat and rolling plain along the Ganges river, and the Himalayas in the north   <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** c. ** **Size:** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">3, 287,590 sq km  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** B. Political Geography ** Federal republic, President Prathiba Patil, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">** 5. Capital :** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> New Delhi    <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 6. International Organization Affiliations :** ADB, ARF, ASEAN, BIMSTEC, BIS, C, CP, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM,IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OPCW, PCA, PIF, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNCTAD, UNDOF, UNESCO, UNCHR, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNITAR, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCL, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 7. Size of Armed Forces: ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Male: 11,592,111 Female: 10, 636, 857 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** C. Cultural Geography ** Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2 %, other 5.9; Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% 1,147,995,904 people; 1.578%; 1.06 male (s)/female  <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 10. Major Cities :** New Delhi, Chandigarh, Shimla, Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Poona <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 11. ** **Infant Mortality Rate and Average Life Expectancy:** 32.31 deaths/1000 live births; 69.25 years <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 12. ** **Teachers and Doctors Per Population:** 3.2% <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">
 * 4. ** **Type of Government, Names of Government Officials, and Political Parties:**
 * 8. Official Language, Other Languages Spoken, Ethnic Composition and Major Religions :**
 * 9.** ** Population, Population Growth Rate, and Population Distribution :**

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">** D. Economic Geography ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">$1.099 trillion total; $2,600 per capita <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 14. Percentage of Land That is Arable Used for Agriculture :** 48.83% <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 15. Natural Resources: ** Coal, iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 16. Major Agricultural and Industrial Products :** Rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, potatoes; cattle, water, buffalo, sheep, goats, poultry; fish-textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, software <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 17. Major Exports and Imports: ** Exports: petroleum products, textile, gems and jewelry, engineering goods, leather manufactures Import: crude oil, machinery, gems, fertilizer, chemicals <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;">** 18. Currency: ** Indian Rupee (INR) is the official national currency; 49.16 INR to one USD <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> ** 19. Balance of Trade: ** Export: $151.3 billion Import: $230.5 billion <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ** 20. Historical Events: ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">1981: Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated 1981: National Referendum 1984: Egypt rejoins Islamic Conference 1989: Egypt rejoins the Arab League 1990 - 1991: Gulf War 1991: Half of national debt was forgiven <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">    <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"><span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);"> ** <span style="color: rgb(6, 6, 255);">SOURCES ** https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/in.html
 * 13. GNP or GDP :**

** II. ** __** Background **__** : ** Anti-Semitism is the hostility against Jews that is usually characterized by a combination of religious, racial, cultural, and ethnic biases. It is originally brought up from the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism has been around for a long time approximately back in 70 A.D. From that period, The Holocaust was broken into three eras: the Classical, Christian, and Anti-Semitism. The Classical era is where the Romans forced the Jewish people to convert. The Christian era is caused by the anger over Jesus's death. The last era, which is Anti-Semitism, are the people who torture and kill the Jewish people. Now, the problem has expanded ever since World War II when it was supposed to be coming to an end. III. __UN Involvement__: ** The United Nations has been on the problem for many years now and are finding a solution for it. The National Commission on Human Rights had been an organization for the rights of Jewish people. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is actively exploring ways of combating Anti-Semitism more effectively in the future. There is still no definite solution yet for this serious problem. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> Compared with any Western nation, France, Russia, or even the United States were discriminations against Jews in housing in the 1950s. In the beginning, the Jewish communities, in India, have not only been free of discrimination but have dominated the commercial life of every place where they have settled. It was not very large, but yet Indian Jews have achieved distinction far beyond their numbers. India believes that this is an issue that is invading rights of humans and should be stopped as soon as possible. **<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(6, 6, 255);"> SOURCES ** <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/05/india-jews-antisemitism-oped-cx_gw_0813jews.html http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9375.doc.htm http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/asemit.htm
 * IV. __ Country Policy/Possible Solutions __ : **