Racist and anti Semitic violence

1. Classic anti Semitic stereotypes

Location of acts of anti Semitic violence

The Centre has a special unit monitoring anti Semitic acts.

List of anti Semitic acts since 1980, by suspected origin

List of anti Semitic and anti Zionist acts since 1980

Reports of anti Semitic incidents are a further source of concern.

However, acts of intimidation, leaflets and other anti Semitic graffiti, were on the rise.

A list of places where anti Semitic violence and threats See statistical tables below.

Additionally, since the Wye Memorandum the use of anti Semitic motifs has not stopped in official Palestinian media.

They march together in demonstrations with some indisputably anti Semitic Islamist militants. But they are far from the mainstream.

The signing of the Israeli Palestinian peace accords also led to renewed anti Semitic manifestations, especially of anti Zionism.

Some argue that the surge in anti Semitic violence in Europe is motivated primarily by the plight of the Palestinians. But, according to a 2012 poll, more Europeans believe that violence against Jews is fueled by long standing anti Semitic attitudes, rather than anti Israel sentiment.

The Committee shares the concerns expressed by the delegation relating to the increase in racist, anti Semitic and xenophobic acts.

24. There were 1,366 anti Semitic incidents in 1994. This is an increase since 1993 (656 breaches of the law).

In 1993, anti Semitic violence continued to abate 17 incidents were reported, 3 of them attributable to Arab Islamic groups.

Nevertheless, despite the increase in the last two months of 1992, anti Semitic violence did not reach the levels of 1991.

Most of the anti Semitic material on the Internet today comes from the United States and Canada and is in English.

Anti semitic acts included three or four cases of desecration of Jewish cemeteries, for which a number of individuals had been prosecuted.

Jewish fundamentalists believe that Israel s critics are anti Semitic or, in the case of Jewish opponents of Israel s harder line policies, self hating Jews.

But there is a real danger in conflating criticism of Israeli intransigence and extremism with anti Semitism. To say that it is anti Semitic to condemn the killing and maiming of children in Gaza is to make a mockery of acts that really are anti Semitic and that deserve to be condemned by every civilized person.

15. There has also been an increase in anti Semitic incidents (desecration of cemeteries, graffiti, dissemination of publications) which reflect the growth of anti Semitism.

In 1993, 164 threats 152 anti Semitic threats and 12 leaflets and threats denying the genocide were reported, as against 109 for the previous year.

Since mid 2000 there had been a sharp increase in the number of anti Semitic incidents throughout the world, with their sequels of violence and terror.

Eleven persons were arrested in 1991 for anti Semitic or anti Zionist acts, and nine in 1992. The police do not systematically receive reports of legal proceedings.

27. The Special Rapporteur received from the Israeli Government a report from which he has taken the extracts below on major anti Semitic trends around the world

However, use of the Internet has become common throughout the industrialized world, and we are now witness to the appearance of anti Semitic sources throughout the globe.

Youth organizations were proliferating, some of which received financial support from political parties xenophobic attitudes were rife, and a significant percentage of the population professed anti Semitic ideas.

On 5 August, in Marseille (13), the female manager of a petrol station attacked and gassed two clients (15 days of sick leave), after making anti Semitic insults.

The 1994 statistics are the result of new collection criteria chosen by the Ministry of the Interior to obtain a more accurate picture of racist and anti Semitic behaviour.

Such acts included bombing and setting fire to synagogues and Jewish community centres, desecration of cemeteries, harassment and intimidation of individuals and groups, and a steep increase in anti Semitic propaganda.

2. It should be recalled that German reunification was accompanied by violent outbursts of xenophobic sentiment and anti Semitic acts fomented and perpetrated by extreme rightist organizations and neo Nazi cells.

Like leaflets with racist connotations, anti Semitic pamphlets circulate with a maximum of discretion, left in letter boxes or sent through the post to persons assumed to belong to the Jewish community.

For example, the sale of the French translation of the anti Semitic Russian work entitled The Protocol of the Elders of Zion was prohibited by the Ministerial Order of 25 May 1990.

73. On 16 December, the Government Press Office issued a special report documenting over 50 anti Semitic remarks made in the past year in the Palestinian media and by senior PA officials.

We can never dwell enough on the role of education and educational programmes in preventing anti Semitic acts and other forms of intolerance that, during the Second World War, led eventually to the Holocaust.

The reasons for the relatively high rate of anti Semitic violence in Ile de France are the high overall population density, the large Jewish community and the activities of extreme right groups and skinheads.

Three points should be noted about Muslim extremists (a) they have strengthened their international contacts, operating mainly under Iranian influence and both with and without connection to events in the Middle East (b) outbursts of anti Semitic violence have tended to accompany dramatic events in the Middle East and none occurred in 1995 (c) the dispute over the peace process in the Middle East produces anti Semitic utterances and publications on the part of extremist circles.

It seems that while violence is on the decline, public and national debates produced in 1995 continued to generate a vast variety of anti Semitic literature and publications, not letting Jewish related issues get off centre stage.

The sadly infamous Protocols of the learned elders of Zion had become a best seller, and, in the past two years, at least two television series based on classic anti Semitic defamation had been broadcast to large audiences.

7.3 The authors claimed that they were victims of alleged violations of articles 4 and 6 of the Convention because of the general inability of Norwegian law to protect them against the dissemination of anti Semitic and racist propaganda.

Six recurrent themes were discernible, according to the report classic anti Semitic stereotypes comparisons of Israel with Nazis and fascists denial of the Holocaust libellous accusations the delegitimization of Israel and the Jewish people and equating Zionism with racism.

Back in 1997, when the military pushed the then Islamist led government of Necmettin Erbakan out of power, the Islamist movement fractured. The younger, more modern, and outward looking elements broke away from the traditional, anti western, anti Semitic older generation.

The younger, more modern, and outward looking elements broke away from the traditional, anti western, anti Semitic older generation. This year s crisis led Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the prime minister, to complete the transformation of the AKP away from doctrinaire Islamism.

3.2 The authors argue that they are victims of the above violations because of the general inability of Norwegian law to protect them adequately against the dissemination of anti Semitic and racist propaganda, and incitement to racial discrimination, hatred and violence.