Anti-Semitism is on the rise globally

According to a Tel Aviv University report, the number of anti-Semitic events worldwide surged considerably last year.

According to the survey, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia are among the nations where there has been a significant increase.

According to the report, this was fueled by radical left- and right-wing political movements, as well as provocation on social media.

The publication of the study coincides with Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, which begins Wednesday night.

In Israel, the day is known as Yom HaShoah, and it honours the six million Jews slaughtered by Nazi Germany across Europe during World War II.

The research on anti-Semitism by Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities’ Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry is based on a review of hundreds of studies from around the world, as well as information from law enforcement agencies, media, and Jewish organisations.

According to the report, there would be a “substantial increase in various sorts of anti-Semitic acts in most nations with big Jewish populations” in 2021.

• In the United States, which boasts the world’s biggest Jewish population outside of Israel, the number of anti-Jewish hate crimes documented in both New York and Los Angeles was nearly double that of the previous year.

• In France, the number of registered anti-Semitic acts climbed by over 75% between 2010 and 2015.
  In Canada, a major Jewish organisation recorded a 40-year high in anti-Semitic physical violence in one month – August.

• In the United Kingdom, the number of registered physical assaults on Jews climbed by 78% between 2010 and 2020.

• In Germany, police-recorded anti-Semitic offences increased by 29 percent compared to 2020, and by 49 percent compared to 2019.
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• Australia also saw a significant increase in anti-Semitic acts, with 88 reported in May alone, the highest monthly total ever.

The authors of the study attribute the surge in anti-Semitic events in part to reactions to hostilities between Israel and Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip in May 2021.

That month, Israel and terrorists waged an 11-day confrontation in which 261 people were murdered in Gaza and 14 people were killed in Israel, according to the UN.

In addition, the research highlights “the tremendous reach of social networks for propagating misinformation and provocation.”

According to the report, social media had a “extraordinarily worrying role” in anti-Semitic attacks.

“The results cast doubt on the efficacy of legislation and agreements negotiated with social media firms to prohibit anti-Semitic statements on their sites.”

“The dark web, which hides radicals and where anti-Semitic propaganda is freely and openly circulated,” it cautions, alluding to a section of the internet only accessible via special surfing software.

According to the investigation, the spread of conspiracy theories around the Covid-19 outbreak is also fueling anti-Jewish hate crimes.

Right from the start of the epidemic in 2020, conspiracy theories began to grow all across the world, blaming Jews and Israel for the virus’s spread “It states.

“The lockdowns, which kept people glued to their devices at home, helped to popularise poisonous anti-Semitic talk on social media.

“When the lockdowns were progressively lifted in 2021, anti-Semites reappeared to the streets.”

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