The US House of Representatives’ subcommittee on human rights will convene on Wednseday for a hearing on anti-Semitism, JTA reported. The chairman of the subcommittee, Republican Chris Smith, who took the initiative, said anti-Semitism “is getting demonstrably worse all over the world, but especially Europe.”
"The Middle East is a cauldron of anti-Semitic hate, but much of that hatred is spilling out through the Muslim Diaspora and through satellite television,” he added.
Smith cited recent spikes in reported incidents of anti-Semitism in Britain and France, and noted that it emerges from the far left and right as well as from Islamists.
"This is one of the times when far right and far left meet at the end of the circle," he said.
One of the panels at the hearing will especially focus on Europe and include testimony from Rabbi Andrew Baker, the official representative on Combating Anti-Semitism at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), as well as experts from Hungary and Sweden.