This has been an ongoing issue around the world, but particularly in Europe for the last decade or so, with severe intensification around 2017.
The data is very useful, but I think most Jews already knew this even without the data.
@serge agreed on all counts. What the data really help with (for me) is that they start to provide a window into the fact that there are many different streams converging to create that increase. It’s not just a single group or a single thing.
Yes. One of the challenges Jews encounter is that if we talk about antisemitism, someone will come out and say it's due to [group they hate]. So it's due to the right wing, or it's due to the Muslims or it's due to Corbyn.
In the UK this often goes one step further and the label of "weaponized antisemitism" is employed very freely, with people saying that if someone complains of antisemitism, they must be anti-Labour, or Islamophobic, or whatever
@serge exactly this!
along with the flip side: a self-righteous inability to acknowledge problems when they involve one’s own side.