Why does the West have an increasing anti-semitism issue?

springtide

What point?  The fact you deny there is an increase in hate crimes, including against Jews?

nabby

Agree although if actual rather than anecdotal then Jews could easily be part of the same statistics.

IronGiant

Yes

weaviemx5

I fully agree.  In the same way, what kind of scum would paint racist hate on the door of a mosque and hang pork on it, or stand outside an abortion clinic calling desperate women murderers because they're making an agonising decision for their own body that contravenes the religious beliefs of those holding the placards etc?  The world has many people I would simply class as scum unfortunately.

nabby

Or Schroedinger's Jew? That Jew is running the world whilst sat behind the checkout at my local supermarket.

Like with most things in life, I find that people who don't suffer from things like hate crime don't tend to think they exist to any great extent, if at all.

robel

France is a great example how the rise of the far right as well Islamic extremism have forced Jews to leave. Over the course of the last five years or so, France was at the top of the graph for European countries that Jews are leaving.

I fear that the UK could be heading that way….

weaviemx5

I don't know enough about the underlying reasons for this in France but this was the first recent article I found.

Why 5,000 Jews emigrated from France to Israel last year

Whilst the abhorrent violence towards Jewish people is an understandable factor, the article suggests that up to 35% of those who move to Israel return to France again and that the violence is an additional factor to those already considering moving to Israel for family, religious and economic reasons;

"A proportion of those who emigrate to Israel are known to return to their country of origin afterwards. Estimates range from 10 to 35 percent.
   
Experts and members of the Jewish community in France say that recent attacks are not the only reason people are leaving, with family, religious and economic reasons also playing a role."

weaviemx5

Yawn.  As ever, @The Dude has nothing constructive to add to the debate so just adds ‘funny’ ratings to my posts.  Thanks for the valuable input again

Sonic67

As this is the first time that anything can be considered "a hate crime" it's dubious as to what we are talking about.

Most think it's violence, either threatened or actual. Now it can be anything so of course the statistics show an increase.

That doesn't mean there has been an increase.

Note also there may have been an increase in perception. Post EU referendum result, people may have been more likely to look for any slight against them and put it down to that.

Hate crime in England and Wales

Firstly, the actual number of hate crimes will have increased.

Secondly, people will have been more aware of possible motivations and more likely to report them to the police.

Thirdly, the police are known to have improved the way they record crimes in recent years. This means that some rises in recent years aren’t completely genuine – they happen because more crimes are being recorded, not because more are taking place.

Genuine hate crime and convictions dropped.

About 14,500 hate crime prosecutions took place in 2016/17. That’s actually down 7% compared to the previous year.

Sonic67

Yep. And if you quote articles from The Guardian or Independent, be aware that's a biased view and no different to quoting The Spectator, Daily Mail or Express.

I noted a lot of articles linked to were The Independent. It isn't.