Suspicious Minds

The continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas can be leaving an affect in Europe. Because the terrorist assault on Israel on 7 October, and the ferocious response of the Hebrew State within the Gaza Strip, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts have multiplied within the European Union, fuelled by a deeply polarised and opportunistic political local weather, significantly on the most excessive fringes.

In nations such because the UK, Germany or France – the place greater than a thousand incidents have been recorded because the starting of October – the variety of anti-Semitic acts has exploded in comparison with the identical interval final yr. The European Jewish neighborhood isn’t the one group affected by the rise in hate speech and hateful acts. Whereas acts of Islamophobia are a lot tougher to establish, as some nations don’t report them as such, they’re nonetheless on the rise throughout the European Union, based on the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW).

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