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Report highlights 321% increase in antisemitic incidents in Spain in 2024

The report attributes this alarming surge primarily to the impact of the Israel–Hamas war, which triggered a wave of hate speech targeting the Jewish community, both in public spaces and across social media platforms.

Jewish man attacked in Levallois-Perret as assailant called him “dirty Jew”

This latest attack comes amid a marked rise in antisemitic incidents in France since the 7 October terrorist attacks by Hamas in Israel.

Polish prosecutors probe Auschwitz denial by far-right MEP

According to the prosecutor’s office, Braun denied — “in public and contrary to established facts” — the genocide the Nazis carried out at Auschwitz between 1941 and 1944, in particular the murder of Jews and other victims using gas chambers.

Anti-Israel vandals attack kosher restaurant in Athens

The masked attackers threw fliers at diners and staff and graffitied anti-Israel slogans on walls and counters, including “No Zionist is safe here,” “Smash Zionism, fascism, colonialism,” and “Israel Death Forces — rapists, torturers, murderers.”

Swedish neo-Nazis disrupt Shoah survivors’ talks

A neo-Nazi organisation active in Sweden has been disrupting lectures from Holocaust...

French Jews mark fifth anniversary of terror attack at Toulouse school

Hundreds of French Jews and non-Jews took part on Sunday evening in...

Toulouse Jewish school commemorates terror attack

The Ohr HaTorah school in Toulouse, where Mohamed Merah shot the young...

Greek neo-Nazis retain swagger despite two-year trial

Nearly two years in the dock over an anti-fascist rapper’s murder have...

Greek Jews hail citizenship decision

Greece's Jewish community hailed a lawmakers' decision to allow descendants of Holocaust...

Four jailed in Germany for forming far-right terrorist group

Three men and a woman have been sentenced to prison terms between...

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