30% increase in anti-Semitic incidents worldwide in 2012

[Mosby]

The European Jewish Congress found a 30 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents across the world in 2012, according to an annual report the organization published on Sunday in cooperation with Tel Aviv University.

The study linked the surge to Europe’s economic troubles and a deadly attack on Jewish schoolchildren last year in Toulouse, France.

“It appears that rather than the Toulouse attacks being a shock to the system, they had the opposite effect and perhaps allowed terrorist groups in Europe to become more emboldened,” EJC President Moshe Kantor said at an anti-Semitism press conference Sunday at Tel Aviv University, pointing to attempted terror attacks across the continent against Jewish targets.

In Europe, Hungary was identified as experiencing the most worrying anti-Semitic trends and a “correlation was observed between the political strengthening of extreme right parties and the high level of anti-Semitic manifestations, including incidents of violence and vandalism,” the study revealed.

Greece and the Ukraine were also seeing similar trends of extreme right-wing parties whose anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli rhetoric have apparently helped ignite attacks.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/report-finds-30-increase-in-anti-semitic-incidents-worldwide

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Gee, I can't imagine why.

Especially when we see things like "the Jews are committing genocide against the Palestinians" (or a variation therein) on supposed liberal/progressive websites. Attacks against Jews or Jewish property is 'written off' as "anti-Zionism" or "criticism of Israel." For a time, when I heard the term, "new anti-Semitism," I balked because my thoughts were "anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism." I have come to see, that no, it really is a new version of the same old hate. The new version, though, seems to get a pass by a number of people who claim they aren't bigots. It is nothing more than a case of "the ends justify the means."