European Anti-Semitism : Barometer Rising
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"I would have liked that [had Germans responded in numbers to the suggestion of some German politicians to wear kippahs in solidarity with German Jews facing an increase of anti-Semitic attacks]. It would have left me positively astonished."
"Such a spectacle] would have indeed been a sign that the issue of antisemitism matters not only [to] Jews, but a large part of the population as well. [However], that was not the case."
"It’s not even true that millions or even hundreds of thousands of Germans can say, ‘Yes, I have Jewish friends here, they are worried and that is why I feel a duty to show my support to those who need it'."
"That’s just not the case. [Antisemitism] is irrelevant to the mass of people, sadly."
Michael Wuliger, columnist, Germany’s main Jewish newspaper, the Jüdische Allgemeine
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| A man walks among defaced gravestones at the Jewish cemetery of Herrlisheim, near Strasbourg, eastern France. Photograph: Jean-François Badias/AP |
"Decades after the Holocaust, shocking and mounting levels of antisemitism continue to plague the European Union." "Jewish people have a right to live freely, without hate and without fear for their safety." Michael O’Flaherty, director, EU Fundamental Rights Agency
"About 0.2% of the world’s population is Jewish, according to the Pew Research Center’s Global Religious Landscape study."
"Four out of ten respondents in the survey thought their own countries were between 3% and 10% Jewish. In fact, Israel is the only country in the world where more than 2% of the population is Jewish."
"The overestimates came even as majorities or near-majorities in every country CNN polled said they were not aware of ever having met a Jewish person. Two-thirds of Germans, Austrians and Poles said they didn’t think they had ever socialized with a Jew, while about half of people in Britain, France, Hungary and Sweden said the same."
CNN Poll: Antisemitism in Europe
France has reported an increase of 74 percent in acts of anti-Semitism in a single year; 541 incidents were reported in 2018. Nine Labour members of Parliament left the party responding to a dark cloud of anti-Semitism emanating from the party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters. Since the end of World War II and the horrendous reality of the depth and extent of the Holocaust, Europe has consoled itself with the belief that it had successfully confronted anti-Semitism.
The current reality is that the world's oldest and most pernicious form of racist hatred has managed to seep out of the underground caverns where it has festered unnoticed until its most recent emergence. The growth of virulent hate speech, intolerance, anger and slanderous accusations having little bearing in reality, but weighted with ancient hatreds, now are openly evidenced on social media. Hatred of Jews has emerged from its disgraced shadowy world to open prominence.
Far-right nationalists, 'progressive' leftists, Muslim immigrants in Europe have all raised resentment of Israel to a new level of corrosive hatred, as a cover for anti-Semitism to a high art of denial while expressions of mendacious hostility proliferate, finding new life among those whose anti-Semitism was kept under wraps while it was still considered to be in bad taste to express it so openly, now feeling free in this new spirit of overwhelmingly crude denials of Israel's right to exist barely cloaking a rage against Jewish presence anywhere.
A third of the respondents to last November's CNN poll on the state of antisemitism in Europe claimed they had little or no knowledge about the Holocaust, while close to a quarter stated Jews had too much influence in conflict and wars, and over a quarter claimed that Jewish influence in business and finance was overwhelming. The Anti-Defamation League's 2015 survey revealed that 31 percent of Germans believed it to be "probably true" that "Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust".
State-and-fascist-ideology pursuit of genocide a mere blip in history where over the space of several years six million Jews were annihilated while the world looked on and Europeans in general could later claim they knew nothing of the mass atrocity.
The European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights concluded after polling over 16,000 Jews in a dozen European countries at the closing of 2018 that anti-Semitic hate speech, harassment and fear of being identified as Jews has become the new normal for Europe's Jewish demographic, 85 percent of whom felt anti-Semitism to be the largest social, political problem in their countries. Over a third of the respondents revealed they had considered in the preceding five years, emigrating. Close to a third of European Jews added because of safety concerns they tended to avoid Jewish events or sites.
A report issued by the German government in May indicated that anti-Semitic incidents in that country had increased by close to 20 percent last year from the previous one. Of the 1,799 identified anti-Semitic events, 69 were classified as acts of violence. Use of the swastika and other symbols, illegal in Germany, represented the most common offense; online incitement and insults ranging to arson, assault and murder made up the full range and types of offenses.
While a large percentage of the incidents were attached to the far right through a resurgence of a neo-fascist right, much of the recent reporting out of Germany on anti-Semitism's rise has shone a spotlight on Muslim migrants' virulent hostility to Jews.
The current reality is that the world's oldest and most pernicious form of racist hatred has managed to seep out of the underground caverns where it has festered unnoticed until its most recent emergence. The growth of virulent hate speech, intolerance, anger and slanderous accusations having little bearing in reality, but weighted with ancient hatreds, now are openly evidenced on social media. Hatred of Jews has emerged from its disgraced shadowy world to open prominence.
Far-right nationalists, 'progressive' leftists, Muslim immigrants in Europe have all raised resentment of Israel to a new level of corrosive hatred, as a cover for anti-Semitism to a high art of denial while expressions of mendacious hostility proliferate, finding new life among those whose anti-Semitism was kept under wraps while it was still considered to be in bad taste to express it so openly, now feeling free in this new spirit of overwhelmingly crude denials of Israel's right to exist barely cloaking a rage against Jewish presence anywhere.
A third of the respondents to last November's CNN poll on the state of antisemitism in Europe claimed they had little or no knowledge about the Holocaust, while close to a quarter stated Jews had too much influence in conflict and wars, and over a quarter claimed that Jewish influence in business and finance was overwhelming. The Anti-Defamation League's 2015 survey revealed that 31 percent of Germans believed it to be "probably true" that "Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust".
State-and-fascist-ideology pursuit of genocide a mere blip in history where over the space of several years six million Jews were annihilated while the world looked on and Europeans in general could later claim they knew nothing of the mass atrocity.
The European Union's Agency for Fundamental Rights concluded after polling over 16,000 Jews in a dozen European countries at the closing of 2018 that anti-Semitic hate speech, harassment and fear of being identified as Jews has become the new normal for Europe's Jewish demographic, 85 percent of whom felt anti-Semitism to be the largest social, political problem in their countries. Over a third of the respondents revealed they had considered in the preceding five years, emigrating. Close to a third of European Jews added because of safety concerns they tended to avoid Jewish events or sites.
A report issued by the German government in May indicated that anti-Semitic incidents in that country had increased by close to 20 percent last year from the previous one. Of the 1,799 identified anti-Semitic events, 69 were classified as acts of violence. Use of the swastika and other symbols, illegal in Germany, represented the most common offense; online incitement and insults ranging to arson, assault and murder made up the full range and types of offenses.
While a large percentage of the incidents were attached to the far right through a resurgence of a neo-fascist right, much of the recent reporting out of Germany on anti-Semitism's rise has shone a spotlight on Muslim migrants' virulent hostility to Jews.
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| Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world. CNN |
"Anti-Semitism is no longer an issue confined to the activity of the far left, far right and radical Islamists triangle - it has mainstreamed and became an integral part of life."
"The most disturbing development, that keeps continuing and intensifying since 2016, is that Jews in some countries feel they live in a state of emergency, because of the continuing rise, most notably in Western Europe and North America, in anti-Semitic manifestations."
"For the first time in their long history British Jews, who feel they lost their political home, question their future in Britain."
Report, Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry
Labels: Anti-Semitism, Europe, North America
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