KANTOR CENTER ANNUAL REPORT ON ANTISEMITISM WORLDWIDE 2017: THE YEAR THE MASK CAME OFF - EUROPEAN JEWISH CONGRESS - 11.04.2018
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2017 might be called the golden year for the rise of the far-right movements in European Union countries. Anti-establishment populist movements and new formations like the alt-right (alternative right) breeding from the century-old eugenic thought, white supremacism, white nationalism, and covert or overt racist approaches overlapping with Neo-Nazism have gained considerable ground in most of the prominent EU countries.[1] This rise is coupled with the rise in violent discriminatory acts, bias or prejudice towards particular groups of people in the forms of xenophobia, islamophobia and anti-Semitism. France, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria are examples in this respect. Recently released the Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center 2017 Annual Report on Anti-Semitism Worldwide referring to this development for anti-Semitism in 2017 and states that “Europe’s largest Jewish communities are experiencing a normalization and mainstreaming of antisemitism not seen since the Second World War". You may find below the statement made by the European Jewish Congress in this respect.

 


[1] Teoman Ertuğrul Tulun. CENTURY OLD “WHITE SUPREMACISM” AND THE FAR-RIGHT’S RISE IN SWEDEN: A CREDIBLE CHALLENGE TO PROGRESSIVE VALUES AND POLICIES?  Analysis No : 2018 / 1

 

European Jewish Congress (11 April 2018)

 

With the release today of the Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center 2017 Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide, Europe’s largest Jewish communities are experiencing a normalisation and mainstreaming of antisemitism not seen since the Second World War.

Last year saw antisemitic violence in France, home still to Europe’s largest Jewish community, attain new levels of intensity with a Jewish woman thrown out of her apartment window to her death. The same pattern has continued this year, with a leap in violence such as the recent stabbing and burning of a Holocaust survivor in her home in Paris.

“The result is of a Jewish community in many places around the world living in fear,” Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the European Jewish Congress said. “Neither the public nor the private space are perceived as safe for Jews, as was seen by the recent horrific and brutal murder of Mireille Knoll, who survived the Holocaust to be stabbed and burnt in her home. The general feeling shared by Jews, as individuals and as a community, is that antisemitism has entered a new phase, and is widespread in most parts of the world.”

In the UK, another new level has been reached, this time in the form of normalisation of antisemitic discourse in mainstream politics.

“Jeremy Corbyn’s ascendancy in the British Labour Party means that he is a possible future prime minister. His followers and supporters openly share on social media some of the most malevolent Holocaust denial and international Jewish banking conspiracies reminiscent of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, some of this is sometime even condoned by Corbyn himself. It leads us to believe that this normalisation of Jew-hatred has reached the highest levels.”

While the number of violent antisemitic incidents dropped in 2017 by 9%, from 361 cases in 2016 to 327, according to the report, all other manifestations of antisemitism rose in many places globally. Germany, the world’s fastest growing Jewish community, saw an increase of all types of antisemitic acts from 644 incidents in 2016 to 707 in 2017. Among these were 24 violent cases in 2017 compared to 15 in 2016.

Dr. Kantor also noted additional concerning trends.

“The religious dimension of classic, traditional antisemitism has returned, and the term ‘Jew’ has become an insult,” Dr. Kantor said.

“If in previous years we saw different types of antisemitism – antisemitism from radical Islam, antisemitism of the far-Right, antisemitism of the far-Left, and an antisemitism masked as anti-Israel – now it has transformed more openly into classic antisemitism. There has been an increase in open, unashamed and explicit hatred directed against Jews. The Jew as exploiter, the Jew as killer, the Jew as banker. It is like we have regressed 100 years.”

The 2017 Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide was released during a press conference held today by the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress.

https://eurojewcong.org/ejc-in-action/statements/kantor-center-annual-report-antisemitism-worldwide-2017-year-mask-came-off/

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