The number of violent antisemitic crimes peaked in 2005, and a notable decline has set in since 2007. In recent years, the number of such incidents remains at a stable low.
The British government this week formally adopted a definition of anti-Semitism based on the working definition of antisemitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 26 May 2016 in Warsaw by 31 countries.
The general logic of the speech illustrates a well-known phenomenon – in underdeveloped countries like Russia or Venesuella, anti-Semitism is closely linked to the anti-Americanism, especially during economic crises.
Anti-Semitism in Ukraine appears to be most prevalent in the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, not the western regions where Svoboda has more influence.
This article demonstrates that Russia’s use of right-wing radicals on the side of the “separatists” in Donetsk and Lugansk provinces had greater military and political repercussions than the involvement of Ukrainian far-right groups in the “anti-terrorist operation”.
Anti-Semitism has become one of the key propaganda messages in areas under the control of Kremlin-backed militants – the so-called ‘Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics’ [‘DNR’, ‘LNR’].
The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) has prepared the 12th annual report on anti-Semitism in CIS countries in time for the opening of the Fifth Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, which took place in Jerusalem.
