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Austrian Jewish Community Leader Warns of Major Increase in Anti-Semitic Incidents
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by JNS.org
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The leader of Austria’s Jewish community, Oskar Deutsch, said that anti-Semitic incidents in Austria doubled in 2012 and that he fears the rising anti-Semitism in the rest of Europe.
In an interview with the Kurier newspaper, Deutsch said that the Jewish community had suffered 135 anti-Jewish incidents in 2012, compared to 71 in 2011.
Deutsch named Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France and Greece as the countries where Jews are facing the greatest threats.
In November, a Hungarian lawmaker from the far-right Jobbik party called for Jews to be registered on lists as threats to national security. While in Greece, the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has become notorious for its blatant anti-Semitic and xenophobic rhetoric as well as attacks on Jews and other foreigners.
France, which has Europe’s largest Jewish community, has also garnered significant attention over the past year for a rise in anti-Semitism, especially after last March’s Islamist terrorist attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse that left a rabbi and three Jewish children dead.
“What is worrying now, since the murders in Toulouse, [is that] there has been an increase in anti-Semitic attacks unrelated to the Middle East events,” Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, director of the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Paris office, told JNS.org last month.
