Hungary / 12-04-2012

Europe’s capital of antisemitism

By Erich Follath  Budapest experiences a new wave of hate  Budapest survived fascism and communism and blossomed after the fall of the Iron Curtain. But the Hungarian capital is experiencing ...

Hungary / 12-04-2012

Meet Europe’s New Fascists

By James Kirchick  Hungary’s far-right activists used to rally in the streets. Now they’re in parliament, where their party, Jobbik, is stoking hatred of Jews and Roma.  Márton Gyöngyösi, a ...

France / 05-04-2012

After Toulouse: Combatting Antisemitism in France

by Dr. Tsilla Hershco  Executive Summary: France's formal, coercive, educational, and correctional measures against antisemitism should not be underestimated, and have largely borne fruit. Yet the country's unbalanced approach to the ...

Sweden / 05-04-2012

Sweden’s ‘Damn Jew’ problem

By Paulina Neuding  Wearing a yarmulke is no longer safe in the city of Malmö. The mayor blames the Jews, while other Swedish politicians point to ‘social inequality.’ The store ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism - Part One

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism. A look at the forces behind it, and what the European Union is doing ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism – Part Two

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism. A look at the forces behind it, and what the European Union is doing ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism – Part Three

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism. A look at the forces behind it, and what the European Union is doing ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism – Part Four

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism. A look at the forces behind it, and what the European Union is doing ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism – Part Five

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism. A look at the forces behind it, and what the European Union is doing ...

03-04-2012

Antisemitism, xenophobia and racism are on the rise in Eastern Europe, under the guise of ultra-nationalism - Extremism by the numbers

The demand for far right-wing politics in Europe is growing in the east, but not the west. And "group-based enmity," or intolerance, remains a problem. Kyle Kim This is the first ...

Germany / 02-04-2012

Antisemitism - a means to achieve the goal

Children were murdered in Toulouse - supposedly as a revenge for the killing of Palestinian children. During the middle ages, Jews were persecuted and murdered because they supposedly raped and ...

02-04-2012

My friends and enemies- Stefan Grinat

The right-wing parties in Europe identity the Iranian regime as  a partner.   The European right has a problem with Islam. On the internal political side all the right wing ...

Sweden / 01-04-2012

The Muslim Jew Hate

Sara Azmeh Rasmussen  WriterWhy is hatred of Muslims self-explanatory, while the hatred of Jews always can be explained away?  “We are being harassed and we are being physically attacked. There is ...

Sweden / 01-04-2012

Silence in face of hate

Tobias Petersson   Op-ed: Swedish blogger says European society becoming blind to Jew hate, must wake up   It gets dark very early here in Stockholm in the winter. Some ...

01-04-2012

The New Antisemitism

By (Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow)  Why does the international community hate Israel so much? Not long ago, the Economist ran an unsigned editorial called the “Auschwitz Complex.” The unnamed ...

26-03-2012

The Global Blood Libel against Israel

On March 19, 2012 in Toulouse, France, during the busy morning school drop-off period, a man rode up to the Ozar HaTorah Jewish School on a Yamaha scooter. He took ...

France / 21-03-2012

His name Is Mohammed Merah

 Toulouse gun suspect named as Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old French national of Algerian origin 

21-03-2012

Economic crisis and antisemitism

By Stephan Grigat  In a discussion conducted these days regarding the economic crisis, one can hear many anti-Semitic remarks and the expressions “Capital of Greedy People” and “Creative capital” can ...

20-03-2012

Manipulation and Deception: The Anti-Israel "BDS" Campaign

(Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions)  Alan Baker and Adam Shay  One of the weapons presently being used in the campaign to delegitimize Israel in the international community is the so-called "BDS ...

14-03-2012

Anti-Zionism or Antisemitism?

The Global Antisemitism Review Act of 2004 brought into being the existence of an office to monitor and combat anti-Semitism. In 2006, the administration of President George W. Bush appointed ...

Egypt / 05-03-2012

Antisemitism in Egypt will fade as democracy emerges

Jews don’t have as much to worry about Egypt’s Arab Spring as one might think. By Lisa Goldman  The Arab Spring presents a conundrum for many liberal Jews. As liberals ...

Switzerland / 02-03-2012

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld interviews Simon Erlanger on Swiss antisemitism

Interview series: Simon Erlanger, journalist-historian: "The myth of [Swiss] neutrality while at the same time resisting Nazi Germany, was largely discarded when the truth emerged" - and antisemitism emerged as ...

Germany / 29-02-2012

Taking a second look at today’s ‘Nazi Brides’

A recent film and a high-profile arrest in Germany have caused many here to take a closer look at a small, but growing, female contingent of far-right extremists.  Germans were ...

Germany / 20-02-2012

U.S. Jewish author releases alarming account of antisemitism in Germany

In his book, ‘I Sleep in Hitler's Room: An American Jew Visits Germany’, Tuvia Tenenbom documents six months of travel throughout Germany, interviewing the locals about their views on Jews ...

16-02-2012

Antisemitism has become politically correct

By Ron Jager  We really shouldn’t be surprised that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei only recently released a new doctrine explaining why it would be ‘legally and morally justified’ ...

16-02-2012

Judea Pearl: Anti-Zionism is Racism

Those who came to hear Judea Pearl speak last night at an event sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center‘s Museum of Tolerance might have expected to be offered an array of numbers, ...

15-02-2012

Iran has declared war against Israel and the Jewish people

By Alan M. Dershowitz  If Iran is indeed behind the spate of recent bombings and foiled attacks that have targeted Israeli and Jewish civilian institutions in India, Georgia, Azerbajan and ...

14-02-2012

The roots of antisemitism

Author examines 2,500 year time frame  It’s a saying attributed to Mark Twain: The truth is not hard to kill but a lie well told lives forever.   Author Phyllis ...

Germany / 12-02-2012

Germany's antisemitism problem

The complex context within which German youth learn about the Holocaust, relate to their fellow Jewish citizens or form an opinion about Israel, requires more creativity, coordination, long-term budgets and ...