An alarming jump in anti-Semitism figures worldwide since October 7: a 512% increase in anti-Semitism cases in Britain, 738% in Australia, 400% in France, 800% in Canada and 320% in Germany - according to a report published yesterday by the Diaspora Ministry, the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
It was also reported that 45% of all anti-Semitic incidents in 2023 occurred in the US, compared to 39% in Europe as a whole. Compared to 2022, there was a sharp increase of 33% in the scope of violent incidents against Jews, with six people murdered in the US, Egypt and Tunisia.
Anti-Semitism in the USA: Cafe workers prevent a Jewish woman from using the bathroom
In the past year there has been a 1,200% jump in social media posts with anti-Semitic content - and in November-December most of them were monitored on Twitter (68%), despite the disavowal of its leader.
After it, by a considerable margin, are Tiktok, Facebook, Telegram and Instagram.
According to Amichai Shikli, the Minister of the Diaspora and the fight against anti-Semitism, "the Jewish people have not experienced such intensity of hatred since the 1930s. Then it was the Nazi race theory, and today it is the obsessive hatred towards the State of Israel."
Dangerous in the US and Europe
According to the report, in the two months after October 7, there was a 337% increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the US, compared to the corresponding period in 2022, and it also recorded the highest number of incidents since 1979, the year in which the documentation of anti-Semitic phenomena began.
Europe also recorded an alarming jump in the phenomenon in 2023, and the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain since October 7 is the highest since records began in 1984.
A protest by the Jewish community in Paris, photo: AP
More than 1,800 incidents were reported in France in 2023, and on the "Israel Today" website we published yesterday for the first time that since October 7 there has been a 1,000% jump in the number of anti-Semitic incidents - which, according to the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, has led to a 400% increase in the number of applicants to immigrate to Israel from france
"Israel Hayom" has learned that following the surge in immigration applications, Minister Ofir Sofer is expected to present next week a new program that will include, among other things, rent assistance, strengthening Hebrew studies and job placement.
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