Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

December 4, 2008 3:01:49 PM CST

Learn about Newser Points »

« Back to the grid | Next story »

Anti-Semitism on the Rise: Report

Posted Mar 14, 08 3:15 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  World 

(Newser) – Over 60 years after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, warns a State Department report. US embassies across the globe have noted that attacks on Jewish people, their property and institutions have risen in the last ten years. In 2006 more than 100 synagogues were vandalized, hundreds of Jewish people were attacked, and a young French Jew was kidnapped, tortured and murdered, Reuters reports.

New forms of the hatred involve "criticism of Zionism or Israeli policy that—intentionally or not—has the effect of promoting prejudice against all Jews by demonizing Israel and Israelis," the report concluded. Various governments and leaders, including Iran's Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, were accused of helping fan the flames of anti-Semitism.

Source Reuters

1 comments | Print E-mail | Digg Seed this on Newsvine Add this link to Del.icio.us StumbleUpon

Related Newser Stories

  • Iran's President Has No Problem With Israelis...

    Sep 19, 08 7:30 AM CDT
    Iran's President Has No Problem With Israelis... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that he harbors no hostility to Israelis themselves even as he refuses to recognize Israel as a legitimate state, the New York Times reports. "We have no problem with people and nations,” said the Iranian president, whose comments caused at least some analysts to see a policy shift in the works. “Of course, we do not recognize a government or a nation for the Zionist regime." More »

  • Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me

    Jul 30, 08 5:06 PM CDT
    Klein to Jewish 'Extremists': Stop Bullying Me The Jewish right-wing "extremists" at Commentary can call Joe Klein anti-Semitic and intellectually unstable all they want, the columnist writes, and they can even call for Time to fire him, but he’s not going stop telling what he calls the “palpable” truth that's "unspoken in polite society": that a group of Jewish neoconservatives provided Bush with the rationale he needed for the Iraq war—and now they’re agitating for a strike on Iran.
    More »

  • Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

    Feb 16, 08 12:53 PM CST
    Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is  now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what children "see on television or in a horror film is much worse." More »

Anti Semitic inscriptions and a Nazi swastika are seen on the grave of Tzaddik Elimelech at the Jewish cemetery in Lezajsk, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 6, 2008.   (AP Photo/Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland, ho)
Members of the controversial extreme-right, anti-semitic "Magyar Garda" or Hungarian guard try to enter the courthouse to attend hearings aimed at banning their organization.   (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
A photo provided by police shows the letters "SS" smeared on a gravestone at a Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa, Poland, Monday, Aug. 6, 2007.   (AP Photo/Police)
A far-right, anti-Semitic group holds a demonstration in Russia, where a US State Department report warns anti-Semitism is persisting.   (Magnum Photos)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
Our editors also recommend:

Threads (
1
 of 2)

Tags

Iran • Israel • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • State Department • Jews • Holocaust • anti-Semitism • synagogue


Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

Today's Most Popular

Loading...

Other World Stories

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Face it: there's too much news. At Newser a team of editors and writers culls the most important stories from hundreds of U.S. and international sources and reduces them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs. It's the Newser guarantee: we can take any report or column or video and pack what you need to know into 120 words or less. Newser's short-form aggregation, visual format, and unique information tools help you get more of the kind of news you want, in a quicker and more entertaining way. And we do it 24/7—you can come back morning, noon, night (and in between) for something new that matters. Read less, know more.

Learn more »