June 21st marks 55 years since the murders of civil rights defenders James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. They were killed for helping African Americans register to vote in Mississippi. We must honor their legacy and stand in solidarity with minorities anywhere.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a half-year report on hate crimes in New York City. Disturbingly, hate crimes are up more than 80% and more than half of the crimes in the city were antisemitic. No minority should ever feel unsafe walking the streets of NYC.

11 US states have already ensured that the Holocaust is taught in their public schools. Will your state be next? Write your representative today and make sure the Holocaust is taught in your schools: bit.ly/2IjaSVX

A recent study revealed that there were 1,879 recorded antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2018. 

Of these incidents, 344 antisemitic incidents took place in K-12 schools last year. Write your representative in support of the Never Again Education Act to grant funds to provide Holocaust education in American schools: bit.ly/2HkE9jA

Antisemitic incidents in Belgium have nearly doubled since last year.

In 2018, there were over 100 incidents in total. Even more shocking is that 39% of Belgium's Jews have reported being harassed just for being Jewish. Read more: http://bit.ly/2WrrCDi

A new survey by the Claims Conference found critical gaps in Holocaust knowledge in Austria. Disturbingly, the majority of those polled did not know six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Read more:  http://www.claimscon.org/austria-study/

The FBI has reported more than a 17% rise in hate crimes across America. The annual report showed there 7,175 bias crimes which targeted 8.493 victims based on their race, religion, and sexual orientation. Read more: http://bit.ly/2ISYYVx 

Antisemitism is rising for Jews in Europe, according to the latest survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. According to the report, roughly 89% of the European Jews surveyed said antisemitism is a problem in their country. Read more: http://bit.ly/2FBwBIy

The Holocaust memorial in Trikala, Greece was established in December to commemorate the 50 Jews from the city who perished in Auschwitz. Sadly, Trikala's Holocaust memorial was vandalized 3 times in March. Read more: https://antisemitism.org.il/143107

90% of European Jews say antisemitism has increased in their home countries in the past five years. Read more:http://bit.ly/2FBwBIy

The Netherlands in 2018 saw a 19 percent increase in recorded anti-Semitic incidents in 2018 to a record 230 cases. The Center for Information and Documentation recorded 135 real-life incidents (those that did not occur online). There were 113 real-life incidents reported in 2017. Read more: http://bit.ly/2TpOayO

Nearly 90 percent of French Jewish students said they have experienced anti-Semitic abuse on campus, a new poll found. Disturbingly 20% of these students said they also suffered an antisemitic physical assault on campus. Read more: http://bit.ly/2FpJ9Tj

In 2018, there was a 74% rise in antisemitism in France. This is alarming and unacceptable. We join Le Crif, the umbrella organization of French Jewish organizations, in calling for a national effort to combat antisemitism. We hope the French government will not only condemn these acts, but also bring the perpetrators to justice. Read more: http://bit.ly/2GnN3Ok

Last week, the WJC report released a detailed report exposing on social media the antisemitic nature of the ultra-nationalist promoters and participants of the Lukov March in Bulgaria. The report found that Lukov March Facebook page has dozens of antisemitic posts denying the Holocaust and calling for violence against Jews. Read more: http://bit.ly/2GdBJUA

Every February a torch-lit demonstration draws neo-Nazis from across Europe to Bulgaria’s capital Sofia in honor of General Hristo Lukov. General Hristo Lukov, a Nazi collaborator helped send 11,300 Jews to their deaths in the Nazi death camp of Treblinka. Read more: http://bit.ly/2GdBJUA

Nearly half of 557 respondents in a survey of Dutch Jews said they were afraid of identifying publicly as Jewish. Of the respondents, 43 percent said they take active steps to hide their Jewish identity, such as wear a hat over their kippah or hide Star of David pendants. Read more: https://bit.ly/2QpWZes

The NYPD reported that New York City has experienced a 22 percent increase in hate crimes against Jewish people so far this year:. In 2018 there were 159 incidents compared to 130 incident during the same period of 2017. Read more: https://bloom.bg/2RWKjcl

The Boycott, Divest and Sanctions campaign against Israel has been categorized as anti-Semitic by the Berlin State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, an institution which monitors anti-democratic activities across the political spectrum in Berlin. The office's annual report for 2017, released last week, “refers to a grey area” between “legitimate criticism of Israeli politics to anti-Zionist anti-Semitism.” Read more: bit.ly/2LVNoFZ

The Web Observatory has found that, in 2017, 25% of all comments on articles linked to the Jewish world were anti-Semitic. The report also showed that 35% of tweets associated with Judaism were found to be anti-Semitic, with over 65% denying the Holocaust or referring to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Read more: https://goo.gl/8f25g8

The German government has revealed that there were 401 antisemitic incidents reported in the first half of 2018. This constitutes a 10.7% increase compared to that same period last year. The majority of these were committed by right-wing extremists, with 349 crimes, while 9 were religiously motivated. Read more: shorturl.at/lDEPQ

The Anti-Defamation League has reported that anti-Semitic incidents have risen by 60% in 2017, in the United States. This is the largest increase the organization has ever seen in its 40 year history. The 1,986 incidents included physical assaults, bomb threats and vandalism, defacing numerous Jewish cemeteries across the country. Read more: https://ti.me/2Kd4qhW

Germany is experiencing a resurgence in far-right nationalism. Verfassungshutz, the country’s domestic security agency, reported that the number of individuals who espouse ‘extreme political views’ rose by 9% last year to 126,000. There are also rising concerns of the ascendance of Islamic extremism. Read more: http://bit.ly/2mJvyvQ

Two-thirds of Hungarian Jews believe anti-Semitism is a serious problem in their country, according to a new survey by prominent sociologists András Kovács and Ildikó Barna. The study polled 1,879 Jewish adults in Hungary and was conducted in partnership with the Szombat Jewish paper and the Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, TEV. Link to study: http://bit.ly/2uzuHlF

Anti-Semitism in many parts of Europe is on the rise not because of government policies, but rather due to pervasive sentiments among various sections of the public. 40% of German youth don't know what Auschwitz is; 20% of Hungarians share anti-Semitic feelings.

In 2017, 1,382 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded nationwide in the UK. Anti-Semitic hate incidents have reached a record level in the UK, with the Jewish community targeted at a rate of nearly four times a day.

There is a wave of Antisemitism washing across Europe and North America. Countries like Sweden and Ukraine are experiencing levels not seen since World War II. There have been countless incidents. These are just a few recent examples.

Anti-Semitism affects everyone. Just last week vandals desecrated an Athens cemetery destroying Jewish gravestones. This weekend the people of Athens will gather in the streets to march in solidarity with Jewish community. It is time for us to say enough is enough to all forms anti-Semitism and discrimination. Share this fact now to support the Greek community.

People still get confused between the terms anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, so I the blog elderofziyon.blogspot.com decided to list all the major differences between the two so no one will make that mistake again.

“Anti-Semitism is having an increasing impact on the lives of British Jews and the hatred and anger that lies behind it is spreading.” 80 of the 767 incidents were violent assaults, all of them just in the first six months of the year. Read more: http://fal.cn/UKrecordHate