Research Shows Deadly Spike in Anti-Zionist Attacks Worldwide
WEST BANK (Dispatches) – According to Israeli researchers, last year registered a significant spike in anti-Zionist attacks, with the largest reported number of Zionists killed in decades, sparking an "increasing sense of emergency" among the Zionist communities worldwide.
Assaults targeting Zionists are reported to have risen 13% in 2018, as the Tel Aviv University study recorded nearly 400 cases worldwide, with more than a quarter of the major cases taking place in the United States.
"It is now clear that anti-Semitism has become mainstream and often accepted by civil society," said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.
Kantor pointed to a heightened sense of emergency among Zionists in many countries around the world.
A separate report published by the he Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based Zionist activist group, three days after a shooting at a synagogue near San Diego, found that violent attacks against the Zionist community in the U.S. had doubled last year.
In France, the interior ministry recorded 541 acts against Zionists in 2018 – an increase of 74% compared with the previous year — according to the report.
In Germany, there was a 70% increase in violence against Zionists.
In the UK, physical assaults were down by 17% to 123, but in total there were 1,652 documented anti-Zionist incidents – a rise of 16% on 2017.
This year, Tel Aviv University's Kantor Centre report came days after another fatal shooting attack Saturday against a synagogue in southern California. The attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue on the last day of Passover left one woman dead and wounded three others, including the rabbi.
Many blame the incidents on the Zionist regime’s policies towards Palestinians.
The Zionist regime’s Foreign Ministry has called in the French ambassador to the occupied territories to protest comments made by Paris’ outgoing envoy to the United States after he said the Tel Aviv regime’s occupation of the West Bank amounts to "apartheid.”
The ministry’s spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement on Tuesday that Hélène le Gal had been summoned for "a verbal reprimand” over comments made earlier in the week by Gérard Araud in which he declared the Zionist regime an "apartheid state.”
"We firmly protested the remark,” Nahshon said.
In an April 19 interview with The Atlantic magazine, Araud said the Zionist regime was "extremely comfortable” with the status quo "because they [can] have the cake and eat it. They have the West Bank, but at the same time they don’t have to make the painful decision about the Palestinians, really making them really, totally stateless or making them citizens of Israel.”
Demonstrators hold placards in support UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his pro-Palestinians positions as they protest outside the headquarters of party in central London on September 4, 2018.
Assaults targeting Zionists are reported to have risen 13% in 2018, as the Tel Aviv University study recorded nearly 400 cases worldwide, with more than a quarter of the major cases taking place in the United States.
"It is now clear that anti-Semitism has become mainstream and often accepted by civil society," said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.
Kantor pointed to a heightened sense of emergency among Zionists in many countries around the world.
A separate report published by the he Anti-Defamation League, a U.S.-based Zionist activist group, three days after a shooting at a synagogue near San Diego, found that violent attacks against the Zionist community in the U.S. had doubled last year.
In France, the interior ministry recorded 541 acts against Zionists in 2018 – an increase of 74% compared with the previous year — according to the report.
In Germany, there was a 70% increase in violence against Zionists.
In the UK, physical assaults were down by 17% to 123, but in total there were 1,652 documented anti-Zionist incidents – a rise of 16% on 2017.
This year, Tel Aviv University's Kantor Centre report came days after another fatal shooting attack Saturday against a synagogue in southern California. The attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue on the last day of Passover left one woman dead and wounded three others, including the rabbi.
Many blame the incidents on the Zionist regime’s policies towards Palestinians.
The Zionist regime’s Foreign Ministry has called in the French ambassador to the occupied territories to protest comments made by Paris’ outgoing envoy to the United States after he said the Tel Aviv regime’s occupation of the West Bank amounts to "apartheid.”
The ministry’s spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said in a statement on Tuesday that Hélène le Gal had been summoned for "a verbal reprimand” over comments made earlier in the week by Gérard Araud in which he declared the Zionist regime an "apartheid state.”
"We firmly protested the remark,” Nahshon said.
In an April 19 interview with The Atlantic magazine, Araud said the Zionist regime was "extremely comfortable” with the status quo "because they [can] have the cake and eat it. They have the West Bank, but at the same time they don’t have to make the painful decision about the Palestinians, really making them really, totally stateless or making them citizens of Israel.”
Demonstrators hold placards in support UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his pro-Palestinians positions as they protest outside the headquarters of party in central London on September 4, 2018.