Coinciding with and immediately following the 11-day conflict between Israel
and the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations Hamas and Palesti


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Violent Antisemitic Attacks Rising Globally

 

(New York, N.Y.) – Coinciding with and immediately following the 11-day
conflict between Israel and the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), reports of  antisemitic hate crimes,
bigotry, and intolerance are spikingacross
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the globe.

 

Around the United States and Europe, Jews are being targeted for physical
attacks. In the United States, antisemitic acts reportedly rose by80 percent
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this month, leading President Joe Bidento condemn
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at home and abroad.” Earlier this month in Los Angeles, a group of
pro-Palestinian activists verbally and thenphysically assaulted
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Jewish patrons at a local restaurant. In New York, a Jewish man wasbeaten
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during a pro-Palestinian rally. Between May 9 and May 24, Britain’s Jewish
communityrecorded
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116 antisemitic incidents, compared to 11 during the same period in 2020. On
May 16, for example, a convoy of at least 10 cars brandishing Palestinian flags
drove approximately 200 miles across England to the predominantly Jewish London
neighborhood of Golders Green. Police arrested at least four people after one
participant shouted, “f— the Jews, rape their daughters.” The hatred is also
spreading over social media, where more than17,000 variations of “Hitler was
right”
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have appeared recently on Twitter.

 

While Jewish communities vary in their opinions on and support of Israel, in
2021 Israel’s fight against Hamas and PIJ further highlighted the violent
repercussions of the accusations that all Jews—merely by association—are
responsible for the actions of Jewish state. Holding all Jews accountable—let
alone enacting physical retribution—for the policies of Israel is a clear
manifestation of antisemitism in our times.

 

In January, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) released new resources
evaluating the historical aspects of antisemitism and its modern
manifestations. In CEP’sAntisemitism: A History
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andAntisemitism Resurgent: Manifestations Of Antisemitism In The 21st Century
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reports, CEP outlined information for understanding modern antisemitism and
its resurgence in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.

 

Antisemitism must be uniformly condemned in all of its forms, from all sides.
Both the far left and the far right are guilty of promoting antisemitism. Far
left antisemitism attacks the legitimacy of the Jewish nation-state in the form
of anti-Zionism and targeting all Jews as representatives of Israel.
Conversely, the far right is largely responsible for targeting Jewish life
itself through violent attacks, such as the 2018 assault on Pittsburgh’s Tree
of Life synagogue. Both sides have been responsible for violence, stemming from
a common artificial fear of perceived Jewish power and the need to defend
against it.

 

To read CEP’s report Antisemitism: A History, please click here
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To read CEP’s report Antisemitism Resurgent: Manifestations Of Antisemitism In
The 21st Century, please click here
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