Anti-Semitism on the Rise in US and Abroad, According to New Report

According to a new report released by Tel Aviv University researchers, anti-Semitism is on the rise.

In 2018, attacks against Jews rose 13% worldwide according to CBN News. The U.S. was home to more than a quarter of those violent cases and both France and Germany have witnessed a 70% increase in anti-Semitic violence in the last year.

“There is an increasing sense of emergency among Jews in many countries around the world,” said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group representing Jewish communities across the continent. “It is now clear that anti-Semitism is no longer limited to the far-left, far-right and radical Islamist’s triangle – it has become mainstream and often accepted by civil society,” he said.

Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry releases a report documenting anti-Semitism every year on the eve of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The report comes into an international climate thick with political unrest. 

“The world is seen as in a bad shape, and what hinders it becoming a better place are the Jews,” said Günther Jikeli, an expert on European anti-Semitism at Indiana University, as reported in The New York Times.

Anti-Semitic language is also on the rise online and in newspapers, according to Kantor. Only a few days ago, The New York Times was widely…