{"id":65911,"date":"2018-12-18T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T15:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=65911"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T11:38:23","slug":"18-05-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=65911","title":{"rendered":"90% of European Jews feel anti-Semitism increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Unprecedented EU poll finds 90% of European Jews feel anti-Semitism increasing<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

ROBERT PHILPOT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Anti-Semitism \u2018disturbingly normalized,\u2019 says EU rights chief after massive survey of 12 EU states finds 85% of Jews rate it the biggest social problem in their countries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Illustrative: Nazi signs reading ‘Jews out’ and swastikas are painted at the entrance of a Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, eastern France, in this April 30, 2004 photo. (AP Photo\/Gil Michel)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

LONDON \u2014 Nearly 90 percent of European Jews feel that anti-Semitism has increased in their home countries over the past five years, and almost 30% say they have been harassed at least once in the past year, reveals a major European Union\u00a0\u00a0report<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0published on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The poll was carried out in 12 European Union member states, and was the largest ever of its kind worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the more than 16,000 Jews who participated in the online survey, 85% rated anti-Semitism the biggest social or political problem in the country where they live. Thirty-eight percent said they had considered emigrating because they did not feel safe as Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

Britain, Germany, and Sweden saw the sharpest increases in those saying anti-Semitism is a \u201cvery big\u201d or \u201cfairly big\u201d problem. The highest level recorded was in France at 95%. Denmark saw the lowest level at 56%, while Jews in Hungary suggested that anti-Semitism was becoming less of a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK results, experts suggest, may point to a \u201cCorbyn factor\u201d connected to the ongoing row over anti-Semitism in the British Labour party.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDecades after the Holocaust, shocking and mounting levels of anti-Semitism continue to plague the EU,\u201d said Michael O\u2019Flaherty, director of the EU\u2019s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which published the research. \u201cIn many ways,\u201d he suggested, anti-Semitism had become \u201cdisturbingly normalized.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The research is a follow-up to a 2012 survey conducted by the FRA. The 12 EU countries surveyed \u2014 Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom \u2014 are home to 96% of the EU\u2019s estimated Jewish population. The online survey was conducted from May to June this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Semitic graffiti reading \u2018Jewish scum live here,\u2019 on a building in Paris. \u2018Notably on the third floor,\u2019 it adds on the other side of the door, above a drawing of a target. (Twitter)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The report was released after a major poll for CNN last month found that one-fifth of Europeans believe Jewish people have too much influence in finance and politics, and a third said they knew nothing at all or \u201cjust a little\u201d about the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly half of those participating in the FRA survey said they were worried about becoming the victim of an anti-Semitic verbal insult or being harassed in the next year, while over one-third suggested they avoided visiting Jewish sites and events because they do not feel safe. Forty percent fear being physically attacked in the next 12 months and 3% report they actually have been over the past five years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over one-third suggested they avoided visiting Jewish sites and events because they do not feel safe<\/span><\/p>\n

While the 28% of Jews who said they had been subject to harassment at least once in the past year (a figure which rose to nearly 40% in the five years before the survey), almost 80% said they do not report serious incidents to the police \u2014 often because they feel nothing will change. Seventy percent believe national governments\u2019 efforts to combat anti-Semitism are ineffective, although more than half positively assessed their work to ensure the security needs of Jewish communities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe survey findings suggest that people face so much anti-Semitic abuse that some of the incidents they experience appear trivial to them,\u201d argues the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Around 90% of those surveyed said anti-Semitism was most problematic online and on social media. Seven in 10 cited public spaces, the media and politics as common sources of anti-Semitism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anti-Semitic Facebook post posted by an employee of German aid organization GIZ. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

read more: Unprecedented EU poll finds 90% of European Jews…<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em>
\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion’68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.
\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:
\n<\/em>webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unprecedented EU poll finds 90% of European Jews feel anti-Semitism increasing ROBERT PHILPOT Anti-Semitism \u2018disturbingly normalized,\u2019 says EU rights chief after massive survey of 12 EU states finds 85% of Jews rate it the biggest social problem in their countries Illustrative: Nazi signs reading ‘Jews out’ and swastikas are painted at the entrance of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65911"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65932,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65911\/revisions\/65932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}