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Anti-Semitism swells in Europe amid Gaza war, says EU watchdog

People stand next to a new memorial made of the original entrance door inside a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, on October 9, 2020, on the first anniversary of an anti-Semitic attack on the synagogue [Ronny Hartmann/AFP]

Jews in Europe are facing rising anti-Semitism, partly spurred by conflict in the Middle East, a European Union rights watchdog has said.

Nearly all European Jews surveyed by the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) said they had experienced anti-Semitism in the year before the study was carried out between January and June 2023, with such incidents spiking since October 7, when Israel’s current war on Gaza erupted.

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