Anti-Semitsm: Reality or merely statistics?
NOVANEWS
Gilad Atzmon writes:
Last weekend the Israeli press gave the impression that a new global pogrom is going to burst any minute. “Hike in worldwide anti-Jewish incidents” was Israel’s Ynet News headline.
Early on 21 January the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs released the “2017 Anti-Semitism Report”, which showed a “substantial increase in racist incidents against Jews in Europe, especially in the western parts of the continent”.
According to the report, “2017 saw a 78 per cent increase in incidents of physical violence against Jews in the UK and a 30 per cent increase in all anti-Semitic incidents in the country”. We learned about an increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany. A study of Central and Eastern European countries revealed that “20 per cent o...