James Fletcher
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208 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2014
last heard Sep 2014
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In the United Kingdom, they fluctuated up and down over the past 10 years.
And in France, which is considered to have some of the worst or most worrying levels of anti-Semitism in Europe...
The official data shows that the number of incidents has also fluctuated up and down over the past decade, trending gradually upwards in recent years.
But in France, and also in the UK and places like Canada, you can see that although the numbers do go up and down over the past decade, the average level is a fair bit higher than it was in the 1990s.
So that's to say there appears to have been a step change in the numbers of anti-Semitic incidents around the early 2000s.
Nona Meyer is president of the French Political Science Association and a professor at Paris' Sciences Po University.
That's the situation in Europe, and it's also worth pointing out that in the United States, which is home to more than half the world's Jews who live outside Israel, statistics from both the FBI and the Jewish organisation the Anti-Defamation League both show a steady long-term decline in anti-Semitic incidents.
According to the ADL, they were down almost 20% in 2013.
Yeah, that is a very big number, and that poll came out earlier this year.
It surveyed people in 101 countries, but there are some concerns about that poll, the biggest of which is with the way the survey was constructed.
The ADL presented 11 statements about Jewish people and asked respondents to rate them as either probably true, probably false, or to say they didn't know.
The statements ranged from Jews have too much power in the business world to Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars.
People who answered probably true to six or more of the statements were classified as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defamation League.
Professor Ryan Enos from Harvard University in the United States studies how different groups of people relate to one another, and he takes some issue with this way of determining anti-Semitism.
Well, let's return to France because Nona Meyer from Sciences Po has been running a long-term project surveying people's attitudes to Jewish people and other minorities.
There definitely is.
The Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU has done a detailed survey of experiences and perceptions of anti-Semitism amongst the Jewish community in eight European countries.
Here's Nona Meyer again.
So while the trends are harder to discern, the fact that anti-Semitic incidents happen at the level they do is enough to make some Jewish people feel fearful.
Hi, Ruth.
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