Abstract: Der Bundesverband der Recherche- und Informationsstellen Antisemitismus e. V. (Bundesverband RIAS) ist der Dachverband zivilgesellschaftlicher Meldestellen für antisemitische Vorfälle in Deutschland. Er verfolgt das Ziel, bundesweit eine einheitliche zivilgesellschaftliche Dokumentation antisemitischer Vorfälle ober- und unterhalb der Strafbarkeitsgrenze zu gewährleisten, die in jährlichen Berichten systematisch ausgewertet und der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden. Neben den Meldungen von Betroffenen und Zeug*innen, dem Versammlungs- und Pressemonitoring sind auch polizeilich erfasste Straftaten Teil der Datengrundlagen, wenn diese zugänglich gemacht werden. In den vergangenen Jahren gab es allerdings keinen flächendeckenden systematischen Abgleich mit den polizeilichen Statistiken zu antisemitischen Straftaten. Der Kriminalpolizeiliche Meldedienst Politisch Motivierte Kriminalität (KPMD-PMK), in den neben den klassischen Staatsschutzdelikten auch Hasskriminalität beziehungsweise antisemitische Straftaten eingehen, ist seit Beginn Gegenstand der Arbeit des Bundesverbandes RIAS, etwa in den vom Bundesverband RIAS durchgeführten Problembeschreibungen zu Antisemitismus in mehreren Bundesländern (vgl. RIAS-BK 2018; Bundesverband RIAS, 2019, 2020, 2021a, 2021b, 2022; SABRA 2020). Das durch das BMI geförderte Projekt Austausch von Polizei und Zivilgesellschaft zu Antisemitismus (APZAS) wurde ins Leben gerufen, um einerseits den Austausch zwischen regionalen Antisemitismus-Meldestellen und den Polizeistellen zu initiieren und zu begleiten sowie andererseits die Erfassungspraxis in den föderal arbeitenden Landeskriminalämtern aus zivilgesellschaftlicher Perspektive zu untersuchen und dabei insbesondere den zugrunde liegenden antisemitismusbegriff nachzuvollziehen. Dafür wurden 2023 zwölf leitfadengestützte Interviews mit Expert*innen (vgl. Helfferich, 2019) aus den Bereichen Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft, Justiz, der polizeilichen Hochschullehre sowie Vertreter*innen unterschiedlicher Landeskriminalämter geführt. Die Interviews wurden im Anschluss inhaltsanalytisch ausgewertet (vgl. Kuckartz, 2012; Schreier, 2012). Ausgewählte Ergebnisse werden in diesem Beitrag diskutiert. Bevor wir uns der Kritik der Extremismus-Konzeption widmen, werden zunächst das Antisemitismusverständnis des KPMD-PMK sowie Perspektiven von Betroffenen untersucht.
Abstract: In dem vorliegenden Forschungsbericht werden Ergebnisse einer im Frühsommer 2022 durchgeführten Onlinebefragung einer für die Bevölkerung in Deutschland insgesamt repräsentativen Einwohnermeldeamtsstichprobe von n=3 270 Jugendlichen und Heranwachsenden vorgestellt. Im Mittelpunkt der Analysen stehen die Verbreitung antisemitischer Vorurteile bei jungen Menschen, deren soziale Verteilung sowie dafür relevante Einflussfaktoren. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass insgesamt 2.1% der Jugendlichen und Heranwachsenden offen für antisemitische Ressentiments sind. Weitere 2.0% lassen eindeutige, hoch ausgeprägte antisemitische Einstellungen erkennen. Damit sind die Prävalenzraten antisemitischer Einstellungen bei jungen Menschen etwa halb so hoch wie die mit gleichartigen Messinstrumenten im gleichen Jahr in einer repräsentativen Befragung von Erwachsenen festgestellten Raten. Es sind aber erhebliche Differenzen der Prävalenzraten antisemitischer Einstellungen zwischen Teilgruppen der jungen Menschen zu erkennen. Jugendliche und Heranwachsende mit einem Migrationshintergrund weisen signifikant erhöhte Raten antisemitischer Einstellungen auf. Besonders hoch sind diese Raten antisemitischer Vorurteile bei jungen Muslim:innen. Aber auch dort stellen antisemitische eingestellte Jugendliche und Heranwachsende nicht die Mehrheit.
Multivariate Analysen zeigen weiter, dass die hohe Verbreitung antisemitischer Ressentiments bei jungen Muslim:innen nicht durch deren vermehrte individuellen Diskriminierungserlebnisse oder die bei ihnen weit verbreitete Wahrnehmung einer kollektiven Marginalisierung ihrer Eigengruppe erklärt werden kann. Wichtige Einflussfaktoren sind hingegen, neben einer geringen Bildung, die Neigung zum Verschwörungsglauben sowie eine rigide, fundamentalistische Religionsauffassung. Besonders auffallend und für die Praxis relevant ist die erkennbare starke Überrepräsentation von Muslim:innen der ersten Migrantengeneration unter den jungen Menschen mit antisemitischen Einstellungen. Insoweit ist für die Antisemitismusprävention festzustellen, dass ein großer Anteil ihrer Zielgruppe aus jungen Migrant:innen der ersten Migrant:innengeneration besteht, darunter in hohem Maße vor allem junge Muslim:innen, für die geeignete Angebote geschaffen werden sollten.
Abstract: Government and political parties must adopt an amended definition of antisemitism, aimed at promoting a zero-tolerance approach while allowing free speech on Israel and Palestine to continue. The persistent use of 'Zionist' as a term of abuse is a particular concern: use of the word in an accusatory context should be considered inflammatory and potentially antisemitic by law enforcement and political party officials.
While the UK remains one of the least antisemitic countries in Europe, it is alarming that recent surveys show that as many as one in 20 adults in the UK could be characterised as "clearly antisemitic".
There is a worrying disparity in police-recorded antisemitic crime across the country, with virtually no cases recorded in some police force areas where thousands of Jewish people live. It calls on the National Police Chiefs' Council to investigate this apparent under reporting, and to provide support to police forces with less experience of investigating potentially antisemitic incidents.
Shami (now Baroness) Chakrabarti's report into antisemitism in the Labour Party is ultimately compromised by its failure to deliver a comprehensive set of recommendations, to provide a definition of antisemitism, or to suggest effective ways of dealing with antisemitic incidents. In addition, her decision to join the Labour Party in April and accept a peerage as a nominee of the Labour Leader, along with her recent appointment to Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, has thrown into question the independence of the Labour Party's inquiry.
Despite his proud record on fighting racism, the Committee is not persuaded that Mr Corbyn fully appreciates the distinct nature of contemporary antisemitism, and the fact that it is perfectly possible for an 'anti-racist campaigner' to express antisemitic views. His lack of consistent leadership on this issue has created what some have referred to as a 'safe space' for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people, exacerbated by the Party's demonstrable incompetence at dealing with members accused of antisemitism.
Abstract: This rapid review has sought to examine how the regulatory system for healthcare professionals, from employment through to national oversight and professional regulatory bodies, supports recognition and reporting of antisemitism and other forms of racism, and tackles racism at every stage and level. In particular, the review has sought to answer 2 principal questions:
How do we make sure in the NHS in England that perpetrators of antisemitism and other forms of racism are held to account with effective action taken to tackle their behaviour?
How do we make sure that patients and staff are protected from racism within the NHS in England and across the UK health and care professional regulation system?
This review proposes that the NHS establishes a clear organisation-wide priority to increase trust and confidence in NHS services among Jewish, and other minority ethnic patients and staff through actively promoting an anti-racist workplace culture and putting in place systems to tackle incidents of all forms of racism thoroughly, fairly and transparently. The NHS must work to embed anti-racism principles at its very core, eliminate racist prejudice and disadvantage, and demonstrate fairness in all aspects of NHS employment and care. That must include efforts to tackle anti-Jewish racism.
The scope of this review considers actions that can be taken to address racism from all quarters, including:
NHS staff
patients and their relatives
members of the public
Building on the existing large body of evidence on the impact of racism in healthcare, and on the extensive experience of Lord Mann, the review undertook:
a period of targeted engagement with relevant stakeholders, including the UK health and care system and professional regulatory bodies
thorough examination of existing mechanisms, guidance, and processes for addressing incidents of racism in the NHS
Abstract: The proliferation of antisemitic content on small, high harm online services poses a significant risk to users of user-to-user safety. This includes risks of radicalisation into extremist and violent ideologies, and with serious implications for online threats, abuse and harassment. These risks are exacerbated when users are from a group with protected characteristics, which include age, race, sex and sexual orientation.
In relation to antisemitism, content on these small services tends to be more extreme than the anti-Jewish racism on
large, mainstream platforms. As a result, it helps radicalise people into extreme narratives, the results of which have
included violence against Jews. The proliferation of antisemitism online also contributes to the rising levels
of racism that divide communities. It eases the spread and amplification of conspiracy theories that undermine
trust in democratic institutions and erode liberal values of tolerance and inclusion, across Europe. It also helps
normalise antisemitism in both online and offline discourse.
These small platforms, including, for example, BitChute, Gab, and 4chan, often operate with minimal moderation
and are also sometimes encrypted, providing safe havens for extremist content that includes antisemitic tropes,
incitement to violence, and radicalising material. Despite the harm they cause, many of these platforms manage to
escape robust regulation in Britain and the EU.
This is particularly worrying, considering the major increase in antisemitism in Europe. In Britain, the Community
Security Trust (CST) recorded 3,528 antisemitic incidents for 2024. This is roughly double the number of incidents
recorded in 2022, and slightly less than the number recorded in 2023–when there was a sharp rise following
the 7 October Hamas attack on Southern Israel.
In the EU, some organisations across Europe reported an increase of more than 400% in antisemitic incidents following 7 October 2023. A 2024 survey found that 96% of respondents from 13 EU countries have encountered
antisemitism in their daily life. Hate crimes tend to be severely under-reported, so these numbers–although
high– still represent only a portion of the real occurrence of antisemitic hate crimes.
In this report, we examine the antisemitic content that originates from these small services, and how it migrates to
larger platforms, where it spreads at a greater rate and has a wider, even worldwide, reach. This report will begin with an overview of antisemitism on small services and the synergy with larger services, to explain the risks. We will then look at services to demonstrate the origins of antisemitic content on these platforms. The report ends with recommendations for policy and regulation, to tackle the harm caused by small services, urging decision-makers and regulators to apply stronger enforcement and risk-based platform categorisation to protect Jewish communities and our democracies.
Abstract: The role of HM Government’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism was established to provide independent advice to the Prime Minister and Government on issues relating to antisemitism in the UK and the most effective methods to combat it. As the first holder of the Office, I was appointed to the role of the Independent Adviser in 2019 for five years. Since then, I have maintained a constructive dialogue with the devolved nations as well as the UK Government.
This 2024 review collates recommendations from my major reports on antisemitism in the last two years, the first of which was a detailed action plan on tackling anti-Jewish hatred across the UK while the second addressed the alarming growth in antisemitism on our university campuses. The review also gives an overview of other important project areas that I have covered in my work plan.
While significant progress has been made, important recommendations still require adoption and implementation by the relevant department or devolved administration. I am therefore urging Ministers in the new UK Government, the devolved governments and senior officials to use this review as a blueprint or checklist for further action and the review is formatted in sections according to who holds the lead responsibility.
The need for action has been made even more urgent by the conflict in Israel and Gaza since 7th October 2023. The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 4,103 antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2023, the highest total ever reported to CST in a single calendar year. Of the 4,103 instances of anti-Jewish hate reported, 2,699 (66%) occurred on or after 7th October. This figure alone exceeds any previous annual antisemitic incident total recorded by CST, which has been recording incidents since 1984.
Abstract: The British Jewish community has faced an unprecedented number of attacks in recent weeks, including multiple arson incidents and a terrorist attack. As the UK government grapples with how to respond, this ISD policy brief offers a strategic framework for confronting a range of antisemitic threats. These threats encompass mainstream and extreme actors, state- and non-state-linked activity, online and offline environments, and both violence and latent cultural antisemitism. It urges a cross-government strategy, led by the UK Prime Minister’s Office, centred on the online environment and designed to address the diverse actors, tactics and harms targeting the Jewish community. This brief builds on ISD’s research and policy development on the diverse harms landscape, covering threats such as terrorism, extremism, hostile state activity and targeted hate including antisemitism.
Abstract: This research investigates how recommender algorithms on TikTok and Rumble expose UK minors to antisemitic content.
Analysts created 10 TikTok profiles representing 15-year-old users with varied political and cultural interests, including neutral interest in the Israel-Palestine conflict, left and right-wing political interest, male lifestyle influencer content, far-right content and two neutral accounts. The profiles were prompted towards relevant topics for each interest through an hour and a half of manual content viewing, followed by content engagement via bespoke bot over 14 days, resulting in over 5,500 recommended videos. Thematic analysis clustered content into 10 core themes, revealing pathways from neutral lifestyle content to highly politicised and conspiratorial clusters. Relevant themes were manually reviewed, revealing that harmful content persisted through videos, comments, and TikTok’s sticker and sound features, illustrating systemic gaps in safeguarding minors.
On Rumble, analysts collected 4,412 videos from the platform’s “Editor’s Picks” over six months. Analysts filtered for antisemitism-related keywords and reviewed 259 videos potentially relevant to antisemitism. Findings show Rumble hosts more overt antisemitic content than TikTok, including slurs, Holocaust distortion and conspiracies about Jewish control. These findings underscore urgent gaps in platform accountability and the need for robust enforcement of the Online Safety Act to protect children from the normalisation and mainstreaming of antisemitic content.
Abstract: Im Oktober 2019 übte ein bekennender Rechtsextremist am höchsten jüdischen Feiertag – Jom Kippur – in Halle ein Attentat aus, bei dem er explizit betende Jüdinnen und Juden in der Synagoge ermorden wollte. Seit dem Terrorakt der Hamas am 7. Oktober 2023 im Süden Israels und dem darauffolgenden Krieg erleben wir weltweit eine neue und andere Welle des Antisemitismus. Während einige Menschen aus dem linken und dem muslimischen Spektrum Israel das Existenzrecht absprechen, stehen nun rechte und rechtsextreme Politiker:innen vermeintlich an der Seite Israels. Diese Gemengelage kanalisiert sich in antisemitischem Hass und Hetze, sowohl online als auch auf den Straßen. Sie richten sich zwar zunächst augenscheinlich gegen „die Juden“, sind aber vielmehr eine Bedrohung unserer gesamten Demokratie, die die Rechte von Minderheiten schützen und stärken und die das friedliche Zusammenleben aller gewährleisten soll. Die genannten Beispiele des Hasses, die in ihrer Brutalität aus dem in Deutschland nachweislich verbreiteten „Alltagsantisemitismus“ herausstechen, zeugen von der Transformations- und Anschlussfähigkeit des Phänomens Antisemitismus. Nach dem Attentat in Halle schrieb das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung im Jahr 2020 die Förderlinie „Aktuelle Dynamiken und Herausforderungen des Antisemitismus“ aus. In zehn bundesweit aufgestellten Forschungsverbünden wurden in den vergangenen vier Jahren sowohl grundlegende als auch praxisorientierte Untersuchungen zu unterschiedlichen Dimensionen, Akteur:innen und Adressat:innen bearbeitet. Mit dieser Ausgabe von Politikum werden Ergebnisse aus diesen, aber auch weiteren Forschungen vorgestellt. Dabei wird u. a. den Fragen nachgegangen, welche Vor- und Nachteile die derzeit heftig debattierten Antisemitismusdefinitionen bieten, wie israelbezogener Antisemitismus von legitimer Kritik an der Regierung Israels unterschieden werden kann, wie Deepfakes antisemitische Narrative bedienen und wie man sie dekonstruiert oder auch, ob Graphic Novels als Unterrichtsmaterial in der Antisemitismusprävention geeignet sind. Mit den Einordnungen, Bestandsaufnahmen und Empfehlungen laden wir ein, sich mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten des Phänomens zu befassen, und bieten Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungen und neueste Materialien.
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum
„Der ewige Antisemitismus“
Armin Pfahl-Traughber
Israelbezogener Antisemitismus oder legitime Kritik?
Kursierende Definitionen zur Differenzierung kritisch geprüft
Thomas Haury
Schwierige Gemengelagen
Zur Unterscheidung von israelbezogenem Antisemitismus und nicht-antisemitischen Antizionismen in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Sara Han
Die Verbindung zwischen christlichem Antisemitismus und der Neuen Rechten in Deutschland
Sina Arnold
„Importierter“ Antisemitismus?
Zur Funktionalität eines zweifelhaften Konzepts
Sarah Jadwiga Jahn
„From the river to the sea, Palastine will be free“
Herausforderungen und Perspektiven für den Rechtsstaat
Marcus Scheiber
Antisemitische Deepfakes
Dekonstruktion über Bildwissen
Ursula Hennigfeld
Antisemitismusprävention im Schulunterricht
Kriterien zum Einsatz von Graphic Novels
Projekt RESPOND!
Antisemitismus in den sozialen Medien junger Menschen
Ein Training zur Stärkung der Medien- und Handlungskompetenz
Matthias Springborn
Geldverleiher im Mittelalter?
Herausforderungen bei der Darstellung von Jüdinnen und Juden, vom Judentum und von Israel in Schulbüchern
Philipp Graf und Alexander Weidle
Das Objekt zum Subjekt machen
Jüdische Alltagskultur in Deutschland vermitteln
Abstract: The monograph contains the results of the author's research on the European Union's (EU) policy regarding the "Jewish question", as well as the characteristics of contemporary Jewish communities in Europe. It analyzes current issues related to the development and implementation of the EU Strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life (2021–2030).
It is argued that the development of new legislation to combat antisemitism, based on the definition of antisemitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), as well as the implementation of effective measures to support the development of Jewish life (the term "Jewish life" refers to the development of the traditional way of life of the Jews), are important tasks not only for the EU but for the entire civilized world. European efforts in these areas can serve as a benchmark and model for the United States, Canada, and other countries where such practices are just beginning to be established.
The author also analyzes the challenges of combating antisemitism in the EU and the reasons for the increasing emigration of Jews from the European continent. The monograph is intended for political scientists, historians, civil servants from EU countries and EU candidate countries, students of humanities, and all those interested in Jewish Studies.
Abstract: This document is a consolidated summary of urgent policy priorities of the Jewish community, following the
antisemitic terrorist attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on Yom Kippur (2 October 2025), the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. This attack was not just an attack on British Jews, but on British society and British values.
These priorities are based on consultations within and between leading community organisations, including the Board of Deputies, JLC, UJS, and CST, and reflect the focus of our engagement with government and others since the attack.
We have seen a series of welcome announcements from government in response, and we are actively seeking
further action and implementation across these priorities.
However, these measures on their own will not be sufficient to meet the long-term society-wide challenge of
confronting antisemitic hatred as it has manifested itself in recent years. What is needed is a Comprehensive Government Strategy on Antisemitism, and this paper reflects what that might encompass.
Building on existing initiatives, including the recent report of the Board of Deputies Commission on Antisemitism,
we will continue working with partners and experts, with government, and with all parts of our diverse community, to seek input on these priorities and to integrate them into a wider strategy that addresses the problem at its
deepest roots. This includes ensuring the relevance of these priorities for the whole of the UK, taking account of
administrative and legal variations in devolved nations and regions.
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Law and Justice, Policy, European Union, Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Hate Crime, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Antisemitism: Strategy and Policy
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Law and Justice, Policy, European Union, Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Hate Crime, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Antisemitism: Strategy and Policy
Abstract: Since long before the October 7 attacks, Jewish communities in Europe have experienced growing hate, harassment and hostility on social media. This policy paper articulates the key challenges of online antisemitism, and provides comprehensive and practical policy steps which governments, platforms, regulators and civil society organisations can take to address them. Built through 42 interviews with Jewish organisations and experts in antisemitism and digital policy from across CCOA’s five geographies (France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden), it collates local experiences and channels them into a cohesive pan-European strategy, uniting communities and sectors in joint responses.
Interviewees identified five central challenges with online antisemitism:
Jewish communities and organisations across the five geographies report the significant behavioural, social and psychological impacts of online antisemitism, which have created a chilling effect on participation in public life.
Concerns exist not just over fringe violent extremist content, but the prevailing normalisation of mainstream antisemitism and a permissive culture which facilitates its spread across all areas of society.
There are a wide range of social media platforms in the social media ecosystem each adopting distinctive approaches and standards to content moderation, however the widespread accessibility of antisemitism suggest that significant barriers remain to the effective implementation of Terms of Service, and that many platforms are failing in this regard.
There is limited awareness and understanding of the Digital Services Act (DSA) in Jewish civil society, little capacity to implement it, and a lack of confidence in its efficacy in addressing antisemitism.
Law enforcement has lacked both the capacity and legislative tools to effectively respond to the scale of illegal activity on social media.
Mainstreaming Digital Human Rights
This policy paper presents policy recommendations for Governments, Tech Platforms, Digital Regulators, and Civil Society. These approaches constitute a collective pathway, but may be diversely applicable across different geographies, communities and jurisdictions.
Abstract: Antisemitism was on the rise after 9/11, yet, until 2015, there was weak policy to address it at the national and EU levels. The following examines why and how antisemitism policy emerged on the EU agenda culminating in the creation of the 2021 comprehensive strategy to combat antisemitism. Utilizing punctuated equilibrium theory, crisification literature and literature on Commission entrepreneurship, the article explores why, although other violent attacks had occurred against Jews, it would take the double attacks in 2015 to bring attention to antisemitism within the Commission. Leadership at the EU level, NGOs working with EU institutions, a working definition of antisemitism, along with pre-existent EU legal bases in antidiscrimination law, would help promote antisemitism policy to the EU level. The EU's adoption of antisemitism policy demonstrates both Commission agenda setting and prioritizing antisemitism due to its threat to EU fundamental ideals, thus promoting a ‘European polity’ based on values.
Abstract: The present report provides an overview of data on antisemitism as recorded by international organisations and by official and unofficial sources in the European Union (EU) Member States. Furthermore, the report includes data concerning the United Kingdom, which in 2019 was still a Member State of the EU. For the first time, the report also presents available statistics and other information with respect to North Macedonia and Serbia, as countries with an observer status to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). All data presented in the report are based on the respective countries’ own definitions and categorisations of antisemitic behaviour. At the same time, an increasing number of countries are using the working definition of antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and there are efforts to further improve hate crime data collection in the EU, including through the work of the Working Group on hate crime recording, data collection and encouraging reporting (2019–2021), which FRA facilitates. ‘Official data’ are understood in the context of this report as those collected by law enforcement agencies, other authorities that are part of criminal justice systems and relevant state ministries at national level. ‘Unofficial data’ refers to data collected by civil society organisations.
This annual overview provides an update on the most recent figures on antisemitic incidents, covering the period 1 January 2009 – 31 December 2019, across the EU Member States, where data are available. It includes a section that presents the legal framework and evidence from international organisations. The report also provides an overview of national action plans and other measures to prevent and combat antisemitism, as well as information on how countries have adopted or endorsed the non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) (2016) as well as how they use or intend to use it.
This is the 16th edition of FRA’s report on the situation of data collection on antisemitism in the EU (including reports published by FRA’s predecessor, the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia).
Abstract: The Netherlands’ history with antisemitism is complex. Active collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust and mistreatment of Jewish survivors after the war are issues the country still struggles to confront. Recently, official apologies have been offered for this painful past. One aim of group apologies is to promote intergroup reconciliation. However, little is known about how such apologies are received by the broader population in a country and how it may affect the public’s attitudes toward the victim group. One possible outcome of a group apology is a more positive view and reduced stereotyping of the victim group among the general public. This study (N = 471) experimentally tested this idea in the context of an apology for the Dutch collaboration with the Nazis during the Holocaust. It was predicted that the apology would reduce antisemitic stereotypes by increasing perceptions that Jewish Dutch people are part of the Dutch ingroup and by reducing conflation of Jewish Dutch people with Israel and Israeli policy. Additionally, relations between antisemitic stereotypes, apology-related measures, social dominance orientation (SDO), and political ideology were explored. Findings showed that, although the means differed in the expected direction, these effects were not statistically significant, thus the hypotheses could not be confirmed. Results further showed that people higher on SDO and right-wing ideology endorsed antisemitic stereotypes more strongly, and people who endorsed antisemitic stereotypes more strongly were less in favor of apology, reparations, and Holocaust commemoration. These results are discussed in light of policy recommendations regarding intervention strategies to combat antisemitism.
Abstract: This chapter addresses the effects of the German politics of memory and the historical overdetermination of the discourse on antisemitism in the country. German antisemitism discourse builds on an exceptionalist conception of antisemitism as delusional and exterminist, which is derived from the experience of the Holocaust. This conception has proven to be unhelpful in understanding, tackling or fighting contemporary manifestations of antisemitism in all their diversity, varying formative contexts and differing degrees of severity or threat, especially with regard to the overlap between antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The current debate on BDS, along with the range of legal and quasi-legal efforts to severely restrict the movement, is symptomatic of this discourse. Rather than conceptualising (and criticising) the movement in all its heterogeneous facets and ideological and practical ambivalences and contradictions, the bulk of the German anti-BDS discourse tends to equate BDS with the Nazi boycott against Jews. The IHRA’s Working Definition of Antisemitism, with its blatant weaknesses, gaps, internal contradictions and political bias, is applied as a helpful tool in these efforts. This chapter outlines the German debate on DBS, including various public scandals and tightening administrative measures tied to Germany’s symbolic anti-antisemitism. In doing so, it highlights trends towards the juridification, securitisation and ‘antifa-isation’ of the discourse on antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Law and Justice, Policy, European Union, Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Hate Crime, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Antisemitism: Strategy and Policy
Topics: Antisemitism, Main Topic: Antisemitism, Law and Justice, Policy, European Union, Antisemitism: Education against, Holocaust Commemoration, Holocaust Education, Hate Crime, Jewish Heritage, Jewish Culture, Antisemitism: Strategy and Policy
Abstract: The NOA Hungarian Report Card showcases the current national policy landscape in 10 areas: culture, education, hate crime, hate speech, Holocaust remembrance, intercultural dialogue, media, religious freedom, security, and sport.
This research demonstrates that there is still much that the Hungarian government can and should do to combat antisemitism despite the goodwill expressed and measures already put in place. Also, it is important to keep in mind that the policy gaps highlighted in this report are not merely challenges but opportunities for the Hungarian government to manifest its commitment to eradicating antisemitism. This is especially important in the areas of education and intercultural dialogue, which arguably have the largest impact on prejudice, particularly regarding the younger generations.
Abstract: The NOA-Networks Overcoming Antisemitism project, launched in 2019, is an innovative effort to develop new public-civil society partnerships and enhance collaboration within the nongovernmental sector to support the European Council’s Declarations on fighting antisemitism and fostering Jewish life on the continent. This
report showcases the current policy landscape in 10 areas: culture, education, hate crime, hate
speech, Holocaust remembrance, intercultural dialogue, media, religious freedom, security, and
sport. The research demonstrates that there is still much the Belgian government can and should
do to combat antisemitism. Moreover, there appears to be resistance amongst policymakers to
pass specific measures or to honour commitments made at the national or European Union level.
Abstract: This paper examines the discourse around anti-Semitism in Germany since 2000. The discourse makes use of the figure of the Jew for national security purposes (i.e. via the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the trope of the “dangerous Muslim”) and the politics of national identity. The article introduces the concept of the “War on Anti-Semitism”, an assemblage of policies about national belonging and security that are propelled primarily by white racial anxieties. While the War on Terror is fought against the Muslim Other, or the War on Drugs is fought against predominantly Latinx and Black communities, the War on Anti-Semitism is ostensibly fought on behalf of the racialized Jewish Other. The War on Anti-Semitism serves as a pretext justifying Germany's internal and external security measures by providing a logic for the management of non-white migration in an ethnically diverse yet white supremacist Europe.
In 2000, a new citizenship law fundamentally changed the architecture of belonging and im/migration by replacing the old Wilhelminian jus sanguinis (principle of blood) with a jus soli (principle of residency). In the wake of these changes and the resulting racial anxiety about Germanness, state sponsored civil-society educational programs to fight anti-Semitism emerged, targeting predominantly Muslim non-/citizens. These education programs were developed alongside international debates around the War on Terror and what came to be called “Israel-oriented anti-Semitism” in Germany (more commonly known as “Muslim anti-Semitism”).
Triangulated through the enduring legacy of colonial racialization, the Jew and the Muslim are con/figured as enemies in socio-political German discourses. This analysis of the War on Anti-Semitism has serious implications for our understanding of “New Europe”. By focusing on the figure of the Jew and the Muslim, the implications of this work transcend national borders and stress the important connection between fantasy, power, and racialization in Germany and beyond.
