Report: Antisemitism remains at relatively low level
A new study by Prague’s Jewish Community says that antisemitism in the Czech Republic has not risen over the last year and remains at a relatively low level. The annual ...
Antisemitic incidents in 2012
In June 2012, Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, an author of Hungarian descent, returned his award to the Hungarian Government. His decision was partly motivated by his view that the ...
USCIRF’s 2013 annual report on the state of international religious freedom identifies world’s worst violator
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, today released its 2013 ...
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation releases Statistical Reports “Tennessee Hate Crime” for 2012
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation today released two annual reports that compile crime statistics reported by individual law enforcement agencies through the Tennessee Incident Based Reporting System analyzing the number ...
Far-Right crime on the rise in Germany
Germany says far-right crime rose last year, fueled by an increasing number of xenophobic and antisemitic acts. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich vowed Monday to increase police pressure on far-right ...
Violent racist attacks increase in Greece
Athens -Rights groups say racist attacks are on the rise in Greece, with both the number and violence of the attacks increasing in 2012. The Racist Violence Recording Network released ...
Audit of antisemitic incidents 2012
Amidst reports of a global rise of over 30% in antisemitic incidents in 2012, with France showing an unprecedented increase of 58%, the Audit of Antisemitic Incidents released by the ...
US report: Antisemitism rages in several countries
Antisemitism is a significant problem in several countries, according to the US State Department’s 2012 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released on Friday. The report, which details issues such ...
Nearly 80 percent of UK Jewish community sees BBC bias against Israel
Almost 80 percent of Jews in the Britain have reported that they believe the BBC is biased against Israel. A new report published this week shows that 36 per cent ...
Poll: High antisemitism among Warsaw teens
Poll shows anti-Jewish sentiment among youth in Poland's capital. 44% don't want a Jewish neighbor. Antisemitism is high among teenagers in the Polish capital, according to an opinion survey conducted ...
ADL report on American Muslims for Palestine
The Anti-Defamation League released a new report on American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the anti-Israel organization behind this week’s ad campaign appearing on 25 Metro North train stations in New York. The ad, ...
2012 Annual report
The 2012 Annual report of the foundation for the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland
Antisemitic incidents increased by 30% worldwide in 2012
An annual report about antisemitic violence and vandalism shows a stark reversal after two years of decline; France tops the list with 373 incidents last year. The full report (pdf file) ...
Antisemitism is quite uncommon in Russia, according to the research
Authors of a research on the level of antisemitism in Russia in 2011-2012 concluded that animosity toward Jewish people in the country is fairly uncommon, although they mentioned worrying manifestations ...
Antisemitism in French-speaking Switzerland
This has been the ninth year in a row in which the CICAD organization publishes its report detailing the antisemitic incidents in the French-speaking Switzerland. In 2012 there were 87 ...
50% Belgian Muslim teens have antisemitic views
A major survey among Belgian teenagers indicated antisemitism was seven times more prevalent among Muslim youths than in non-Muslim teenagers. Conducted in recent months by three universities for the ...
Jobbik party gains momentum among students with antisemitic platform
According to a recent poll, the extreme right-wing Jobbik party has become the most popular political party in Hungary among university students. It seems that their anti-democratic and antisemitic platform ...
New report regarding hostility towards strangers and antisemitism in Germany
Since 2001 a work group headed by Prof. Elmar Brahler and Prof. Dr. Oliver Decker from the University of Leipzig has been conducting studies regarding the extreme right states of ...
Study finds nearly 2 in 3 hate crimes unreported
Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years as more victims of violent attacks express doubt that police can ...
Czech Helsinki Committee publishes shadow report on discrimination and racism
On the occasion of the International Day against Racism, the Czech Helsinki Committee (Český helsinský výbor - ČHV) has published a shadow report on racism in the Czech Republic and ...
Report on racism, xenophobia and antisemitism for the year 2012: the French society is more tolerant of incidents of intolerance and racism
The French society is divided, and agonizes over complex “coexistence” and suffers an identity crisis; it seems that the French society is more tolerant towards occurrences of intolerance and racism. ...
Recognizing hate speech: antisemitism on Facebook
The Online Hate Prevention Institute released a major new report into antisemitism on Facebook to coincide with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21st 2013. ...
Simon Wiesenthal center report: BDS “a thinly-veiled, anti-Israel and antisemitic ‘poison pill’”
A new report issued by the Simon Wiesanthal Center has labelled the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel “a thinly-veiled, anti-Israel and antisemitic ‘poison pill,’ whose goal is ...
Antisemitism among Flemish young people
75% of the Muslim youngsters hold antisemitic views; this has emerged from an extensive research conducted among 3867 Flemish students aged 14-18. The CIDI is interested in conducting a similar ...
Fewer antisemitic attacks recorded in Switzerland last year
The number of antisemitic incidents recorded in Switzerland has dropped from 36 in 2011 to 25 incidents last year. The figures were reported in the annual analysis on antisemitism by ...
Xenophobia, racism remain rampant
The Moscow-based Sova Center says the level of xenophobia and radical nationalism in Russia remained high last year. Presenting their 2012 report, Sova's experts said 19 people were killed and ...
Internet discrimination, the biggest source of antisemitism in 2012
In 2012, the biggest sources of antisemitism were once again cases of discrimination over the Internet, according to Meldpunt Discriminatie Internet (MDI). During 2012, 285 reports about antisemitism were received ...
Recycling hatred: racism(s) in Europe today
Racism in Europe takes many forms, new and old. More worryingly, an uninhibited form of racism has emerged, using freedom of expression and ‘white victimhood’ as justifications for promoting exclusion ...
The Merah affair has exposed an increasingly unscrupulous antisemitism
The Merah affair has exposed a more violent antisemitism in France, with a higher incidence of antisemitic actions. That's a worrying situation in a country where the biggest Jewish and ...
Alarm over rising antisemitism in Denmark
Danish officials say they’re alarmed by the frequency of antisemitic attacks. The rise in physical and verbal assaults in Denmark is in line with claims by Jewish communities that anti-Semitism ...
