Between 1 January 2024 and 30 June 2024, the Reporting Centre for Antisemitism (Antisemitismus-Meldestelle) of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Wien) recorded a total of 808 antisemitic incidents in Austria.
During the same period last year, 311 incidents were recorded. The first half of 2024 continued to be dominated by the massacre by Palestinian terrorist organisations on 7 October 2023 and its consequences, which led to a dramatic increase in antisemitism all around the world.
Whereas between 7 October and 31 December 2023, on average 8.31 antisemitic incidents were recorded every day, during the first six months of 2024 this daily average dropped to 4.44 antisemitic incidents a day – which is still almost three times higher than the average for 2023 before 7 October (1.55 recorded incidents per day).
The report counts only those antisemitic incidents which were reported and which, following evaluation by the experts at the Antisemitism Reporting Centre, were verified as clearly antisemitic under the IHRA definition