An organization that tracks antisemitism in Germany has announced it recorded a 320% increase in antisemitic incidents per day in the country since the Oct. 7 Hamas Palestinian terrorist attack on Israel, the Associated Press reports.
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he’s “ashamed and outraged” at recent antisemitic attacks in his country, which is still reeling from its role in World War Two when millions of Jews were murdered.
The number of antisemitic incidents in the Netherlands is reported to have shot up by over 800% since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians and Israel’s military response to it, the Jerusalem Post reports.
In 2021, the United States recorded its highest level of antisemitic attacks in recent years — on average seven per day. The Anti-Defamation League, an NGO that fights all all forms of antisemitism, fears even worse figures for 2022. Doubtless many incidents also go unreported. As the US wakes up to a new, more anti-Jewish reality, US President Joe Biden has vowed to ensure that “antisemitism has no place in America.” To this end, the White House set up an inter-agency group at the end of 2022, tasked with putting together the country’s first national strategy for countering antisemitism.
Neo-Nazi groups across the United States are planning a national “Day of Hate” against Jewish communities on Saturday, according to antisemitism watchdogs and police documents.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday announced $50 million in new funding for a UN agency that is dedicated solely to the descendants of Palestinian refugees and which has been widely denounced for propagating antisemitism, eliciting rebuke from a top Senate Republican.
ermany’s Federal Criminal Police Office registered an average of five antisemitic incidents every day in the first half of this year alone, the Jerusalem Post reports.
As the World Council of Churches prepares for the opening of its General Assembly in the German city of Karlsruhe on Wednesday, a local Jewish leader has warned of the risk of antisemitic rhetoric at the event as delegates debate resolutions that are harshly critical of Israel.