“This report contains bad news,” reads the introduction. However, the authors warn not to panic. “The danger in which the Jews are now should not be overestimated. We are not living in 1939, let alone 1942,” they note. However, anti-Semitism continued to rise in the months and years leading up to October 7, “and the war in Gaza further fueled an already raging fire.”
In the US, where about 6 million people live. Jews, from 2023 a total of about 3,500 anti-Semitic incidents were counted between January and September, and nearly 4,000 in the last three months since the Hamas attack. The situation is similar in other countries, such as Germany, where 1,365 anti-Semitic crimes were registered between January and September of last year, and from October to December – 2,249.
The report cautions against interpreting this as an “emotional reaction to the war and the catastrophe it has caused for the civilian population.” This is allegedly not true, as some of the most vile anti-Semitic statements related to the conflict were made in the first days after October 7th, when Israel had not yet begun its military operation.
An important lesson from the Gaza war is that there will be no peace in the Middle East unless anti-Semitism is finally overcome in Arab societies, the study’s authors note. The requirement to take appropriate measures is supposed to play an essential role in all future diplomatic processes.
