Hungary high in global anti-Semitism
Last year showed a “considerable escalation” in global antisemitism against Jewish individuals, sites and private property, according to a report published by Israel’s Tel Aviv University Kantor Centre for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry on Sunday.
Following a two year decline after a peak in 2009, the 686 incidents of physical violence, direct threats and major acts of vandalism represent a 30 per cent increase on the number of such acts in 2011.
As the countries with the largest Jewish communities outside Israel, France, the US, the UK, Canada and Australia registered the highest number of attacks, but Hungary was also singled out as providing a potent mix of economic crisis and growth in extreme-right movements conducive to an escalation of antisemitic violence and vandalism.
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(Photo, of the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest: Clive Leviev-Sawyer)
