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Report: The corona and the fighting in Gaza culminated in anti-Semitism in 2021 - Walla! news

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Hate crimes against Jews in the US have almost doubled compared to 2019, in France there has been a 74% increase, in Canada there has been a record 40 years since the 1980s. "Holocaust Remembrance Generator"


Report: The corona and the fighting in Gaza culminated in anti-Semitism in 2021

Hate crimes against Jews in the US have almost doubled compared to 2019, in France there has been a 74% increase, in Canada there has been a record 40 years since the 1980s. "Holocaust Remembrance Generator"

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In 2021, there will be a tens of percent increase in hate crimes against Jews, with hundreds of cases of violence for antisemitic motives, according to a report by the Center for the Study of European Jewry at Tel Aviv University.

The report, published today (Wednesday), on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, reviewed the state of anti-Semitism in all countries with large concentrations of Jews and found an increase in hate crimes relative to 2019 before the outbreak of the corona.

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  • The report points to significant upward trends in manifestations of anti-Semitism of various kinds in many countries around the world.

    Notable countries that the report revealed are the United States, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and Australia.

  • United States: New York City Police in 2121 reported 214 incidents of hate crimes against Jews compared to 126 incidents in 2020. Los Angeles Police reported in 2021 79 annual crimes against Jews, compared to only 40 in 2020. During the events of May 2021 and Operation The Guardian of the Walls reported 251 antisemitic incidents across the United States in just about three weeks. According to the annual survey of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), 2.6% of U.S. Jews have experienced physical antisemitic assaults in the past five years.

    According to the Anti-Defamation League data, there has been a 27% increase compared to 2020 and 113% compared to 2019 in the number of incidents of spreading antisemitic propaganda by white supremacist organizations.

    These figures are particularly worrying, since the number of incidents of spreading white supremacy in general has actually declined.

  • France: The Service for the Protection of Jewish Communities, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior, reported 589 antisemitic incidents in 2021, an increase of 74% compared to 2020, but a decrease of 15% compared to 2019.

An anti-Semitic cartoon inciting against Jews (Photo: Official website, from the annual report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world)

  • Canada: In May 2021, Bnei Brit recorded a 40-year record (since documentation began in 1982) of physical violence against an antisemitic background in one month - 61 assaults.

    A total of 266 incidents were recorded in the same month, an increase of 54% compared to the same period in 2020.

  • UK: In 2021 the Community Service Organization (CST) reported 2,255 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 34% over 2020 and 24% over 2019. A sharp increase of 78% over 2020 was recorded in the number of physical attacks against Jews.

  • Germany: According to German police data, 3,028 antisemitic incidents were recorded across the country in 2021, an increase of 28.8% compared to 2020 and 49% compared to 2019. The report points to a disturbing phenomenon that intensified in 2021 - German vaccine opponents comparing their situation to Jews in the Holocaust - According to the authors of the report, this is a trivialization of the Holocaust.

  • Australia: In 2021, 447 antisemitic incidents were recorded across the country - an increase of 35% compared to 2020 and 21.5% compared to 2019. In May, the largest number of incidents in one month ever occurred - 88 antisemitic incidents.

The reasons for the sharp rise in antisemitic events around the world

  • According to the report, Operation Wall Guard in Gaza in May 2021 and the corona plague had a direct negative impact on the number of antisemitic incidents in the world.

  • Operation Guardian of the Walls: The report's editors note that Operation Guardian of the Walls has led to antisemitic reactions toward Jews around the world.

    In their words, "this is an unbearable reality: when Israel defends itself - Jews are attacked."

    The uproar on social media played a major role in this wave.

    The phenomenon raises doubts about the effectiveness of the legislation and agreements signed with social network operators, who have pledged to prevent the raising of antisemitic remarks on the various platforms.

  • The most serious problem in the online arena is the dark web, which is a platform for extremists of all kinds and allows the distribution of antisemitic content without restriction and without supervision.

    The report notes that Iran is investing a lot of effort and money in spreading anti-Semitic and anti-Israel messages on the Internet, especially in Latin America and the United States.

An anti-Semitic cartoon inciting against Jews (Photo: Official website, from the annual report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world)

  • Corona plague: Already with the outbreak of the plague in 2020, conspiracy theories were circulating around the world that accused Jews and Israel of spreading the virus.

    These accusations were based on centuries-old antisemitic blood libels.

  • The closures, in which residents in many countries were forced to remain buried in their homes, have widened and intensified antisemitic outcry on social media.

    In 2021, with the easing of closures, anti-Semitism returned to the streets, and physical violence against Jews increased.

    At the same time, the increased activity on social networks continued, and even became an essential component in shaping the identity of some of the participants.

    Among the opponents of the vaccines are those who accuse the Jews of developing them in order to get rich.

    The success of the vaccines in general, and Israel's effective immunization campaign in particular, only intensified these claims.

    Opponents of the vaccines even made distorted comparisons between the requirement to be vaccinated and the situation of Jews in the Holocaust, which led to the trivialization of the Holocaust.

    For example, the Jewish CEO of Pfizer, Albert Burla, the son of an Auschwitz survivor, was compared to Joseph Mengele, claiming that they both conducted 'experiments on humans'.

An anti-Semitic cartoon inciting against Jews (Photo: Official website, from the annual report on the state of anti-Semitism in the world)

According to the report, the intensification of anti-Semitism in the world is linked, among other things, to the strengthening of extreme right and left movements and the generous platform given by social networks to spread lies and incitement - conspiracy theories thriving in the wake of the Corona crisis and Gaza's operation.



With the publication of the report's findings, the head of the center, Professor Uriah Shavit, said that it is very difficult to fight anti-Semitism in the world.

"In recent years, enormous resources have been invested around the world in the fight against anti-Semitism, which included important and welcome plans, but the number of antisemitic incidents is on the rise. It is easy to say that more laws and budgets are needed.



He added that "Russian war crimes, committed with the cynical desecration of the memory of the Holocaust, teach us that some of those who declared their commitment to the struggle did not mean it seriously and did not internalize the lessons of World War II. The Jewish world must recover The same struggle. "

Prof. Dina Porat, the center's founder, emphasized in a review she wrote about the reasons for the increase in the number of antisemitic incidents the negative impact of social networks on the strengthening of the phenomenon.

According to her, during the Corona period and the closures in which people sat hidden in their homes in front of the computers, there was increased exposure to thriving conspiracy theories on the Internet, including the accusation that the virus was created and distributed by Jews and the State of Israel.



Some of those who have been poisoned for a long time by these theories have become more aggressive and bitter - as they continue to be affected by the lies they have internalized.

Professor Porat stressed that Iran's efforts to spread antisemitic propaganda on the networks should be taken seriously.

The in-depth reviews published in the report point to worrying phenomena in different countries.

Some of these phenomena are the strengthening of institutionalized anti-Semitism in Belarus' dictatorship, the infiltration of right-wing anti-Semitic movements into the mainstream of American conservatism, voices in the Arab world that paint "Abraham agreements" in distinctly anti-Semitic colors and the difficulty of the French justice system calling Islamist anti-Semitism by its name.

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