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On 14.1.2025, the new Anti-Defamation League investigation was published. "ADL Global 100: Index of Antisemitism", which is the most extensive study to detect and record trends in anti-Semitism at an international level. See HERE the research. See HERE video from the presentation of the findings by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.
According to this latest survey, conducted in collaboration with Ipsos and other research partners, almost half of people worldwide hold high levels of anti-Semitic attitudes and perceptions. The survey found that 46% of the world's adult population - about 2,2 billion people - have deep-rooted anti-Semitic views - more than double the rate compared to the ADL's first global survey, conducted a decade ago (in 2014) - and the highest level recorded since ADL began tracking these trends globally.
The ADL Global 100, first released in 2014, remains the world’s largest study of anti-Semitic attitudes. For the most recent 2024 survey, more than 58.000 adults from 103 countries and territories were surveyed, representing 94% of the global adult population.
** SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION AND WORLD FIRST FOR GREECE: According to the findings of the survey, in the last decade, Greece has experienced the largest decrease in levels of anti-Semitism recorded internationally, with the rate falling by 19 points. That is, from 69% - which was in 2014 - today it is at 50%, and even in the midst of the war in Gaza, which makes this development even more remarkable.
More: NEW ADL GLOBAL SURVEY ON ANTISEMITISM - ADL Global 100: Index of Antisemitism
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The Department of Religious Freedoms and Interreligious Relations of the General Secretariat of Religions of the Ministry of Education published the "Report on Incidents against places of religious importance in Greece" that took place in the year 2023.
Summary of Exhibition Contents:
In Introductory part (I) the historical and current institutional framework of the General Secretariat of Religions is presented, as well as the institutional framework governing the protection of religious freedom in Greece, with special reference to the construction and operation of places of worship. Next, reference is made to the Incident Recording Network, the types of places of religious significance that were taken into account are identified and a list of cooperating religious and government agencies is provided.
In second part (II) all kinds of incidents against places of religious significance, which came to the knowledge of the Service, are listed, by religious community, accompanied by historical, legal and statistical data as the case may be.
In total, for the year 2023, 608 incidents against places of religious significance were recorded, distributed by religion as follows:
More: REPORT OF INCIDENTS ON THE WEIGHT OF PLACES OF RELIGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE IN GREECE IN 2023
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On 15.11.24 the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) released the its annual hate crime report in 2023system. (Here in pdf)
Making visible the racist motivation behind hate crimes and ensuring that they are properly prosecuted are essential factors in protecting the rights of victims while ensuring effective policies to prevent and respond to hate crimes, the Office said. of the ODIHR regarding the publication of the report.
The report includes data on hate crimes in 48 OSCE member states, while civil society organizations reported nearly 10.000 cases. From the 9.891 cases, the 4.484 concern hate crimes with anti-Semitic motivation, The 3.069 with xenophobic motivation, the 1.632 targeted LGBTI communities, the 398 concern discrimination based on gender, the 583 they targeted Christians, the 238 Muslims and the 34 Roma.
More: ODIHR HATE CRIMES REPORT 2023 & A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PROSECUTING THEM PROPERLY
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Palestinian armed groups in Gaza committed "hundreds" of war crimes during the unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), which today released a report on the matter, which Hamas immediately rejected.
This investigation, which is one of the most thorough international studies to date on the attack that sparked the Gaza war, lists a number of crimes under international law.
"It's impossible for us to estimate the number of cases accurately," Belkis Will, deputy director of the human rights group, told a news conference, adding that "there were obviously hundreds that day."
These war crimes "include deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets, deliberate killing of people in custody, cruel and inhuman treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, mutilation and desecration of the dead, use of human shields as well as looting and looting," it said. in the detailed report.
More: HUMAN RIGHTS OBSERVATORY REPORT DENOTES HUNDREDS OF WAR CRIMES BY...
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Jews in Europe are "more anxious than ever" in the face of a "wave of anti-Semitism" that has swept through it since the Middle East conflict is undermining EU efforts, according to a major European survey published today.
According to this report by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) based in Vienna, Austria, "96% of them" had encountered the phenomenon "online" or in their daily life in the 12 months preceding the survey.
The vast majority believe that "the situation has worsened in recent years," notes its president Shirpa Rautio in the preamble, although the answers refer to the period "before the attacks by Hamas in October 2023 and the war in Gaza."
In this context, 76% of Jews answered that they "occasionally hide their identity" in Europe, she points out. This is especially true in France, where 83% do so. After the war that broke out between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement, the situation has become even more grim, according to information gathered "most recently by 12 Jewish community organizations."
"The fallout from the conflict is damaging hard-won progress" and it was seen after the adoption of Europe's first anti-Semitism strategy in 2021 with a "spectacular increase" in incidents.
In France, 74% of Jews believe the conflict has an impact on the feeling of insecurity they experience – the highest among the countries surveyed – where 62% said they felt the same compared to just 9% in Hungary.
FRA, an EU agency, submitted an online questionnaire between January and June 2023 to nearly 8.000 Jews, aged 16 and over, living in 13 states that account for 96% of the bloc's Jewish population. This is the third survey on the subject after those in 2013 and 2018.
According to the survey's findings, the "negative stereotype" of wanting Jews to "own power, control finance and the media" is the most frequently used, followed by "denying Israel's right to exist as a state".
In 4% of cases, respondents said they had experienced anti-Semitic physical attacks compared to 2% in 2018. And 60% of them felt that their government's efforts to combat anti-Semitism were not important enough.
At the expense of their activities, Jewish organizations face an ever-increasing financial burden to ensure their security, which they often have to manage themselves.
SOURCE: ATHENS - MACEDONIAN NEWS AGENCY, 12.7.2024
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- THE RESEARCH ON FRA WEBSITE HERE – ON FILE PDF HERE
-FOREIGN TYPE: Times of Israel, 11.7.24
