Dramatic rise in anti-semitism in 2021, Israeli report says
The report in part blames social media and the spread of conspiracy theories around the Covid pandemic
This was fuelled by radical left- and right-wing political movements and incitement on social media, it says. It says that in 2021 there was "a significant increase in various types of anti-Semitic incidents in most countries with large Jewish populations"., which has the largest Jewish population outside of Israel, the number of anti-Jewish hate crimes recorded in both New York and Los Angeles were almost twice that of the previous yearCanada
That month, Israel and militants fought an 11-day conflict in which 261 people were killed in Gaza, according to the United Nations, and 14 people were killed in Israel.Social media played "an exceptionally alarming role" in anti-Semitic incidents, it says.
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