Ant-Semitism in Europe

A quarter of European Jewish community leaders say they’ve considered emigrating amid concerns about growing antisemitism

The rising trend coincides with growing fears over antisemitism and attempts to ban religious practices such as circumcision and the production of kosher meat.

Hungarian Jews celebrate the opening of a new synagogue in Budapest on Aug. 27, 2021. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Does the number of violent assaults on Jews convey a country’s antisemitism level? No, a European poll says.

“It’s a complicated report that requires a nuanced attitude,” the head of a watchdog group said.

EU publishes ‘strategic plan’ for countering antisemitism

The 26-page document summarizes plans and practices that have been circulating in EU bodies for several years.

Global

Amid a surge in hate crimes, prominent European Jews worry the war against antisemitism has been lost

Parts of a vandalized picnic table arranged in the shape of a swastika near the Jewish cemetery of Krumbach, Germany in 2020. (AllgaeuRechtsaussen)

Global

Bulgarian synagogue and Halle memorial targeted in spate of crimes on Jewish sites in Europe

Global

22% of hate crimes in Europe in 2019 were against Jews, report shows

Nazi slogans painted on the walls of a Jewish cemetery in Athens in October 2020. (The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece)

Global

Anti-Semitic graffiti painted on Jewish cemetery fences in Greece and Germany

Rabbi shlomo Koves, left, praying at his Obuda Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary on Oct. 7, 2019. (Courtesy of EMIH)

Global

1 in 5 Europeans thinks a secret Jewish cabal runs the world, survey finds

Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium in 2014. (European Union Press Service)

Global

Top EU official welcomes Czech resolution that calls Israel boycott anti-Semitism

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How the late French president Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

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