Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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But its spokeswoman, Katia Andrus, says only about half the EU states collect data on this sort of incident.
It is very incomplete.
There are huge gaps in the data that's collected at the official level.
So does this collection of official data support the idea that anti-Semitism is on the rise?
Not what we have, is all I can say.
Well, in France and in Germany too, the official data also shows the number of incidences fluctuated up and down, trending downward in the decade up to 2012, before then rising that year.
But in France, the UK and some other countries, you can see that although the numbers go up and down over the past decade,
The average level is a fair bit higher than it was in the 1990s, so there appears to have been a step change in the numbers of anti-Semitic incidents around the early 2000s.
Nola Meir is president of the French Political Science Association and a professor at Paris' Sciences Po University.
there can be some tricky definitional issues here.
Now, there are some things that are clearly anti-Semitic, but what about an individual's criticism of Israel's government policy?
That might be motivated by anti-Semitism, or it might not.
And this sort of disagreement helps explain why one poll from earlier this year suggests almost 40% of people in France are anti-Semitic, while another suggests the figure is 10%.
Well, let's return to France, because Nona Meyer from Sciences Po has been running a long-term project surveying people's attitudes to Jews and to other minorities.
Well, there definitely is, both in response to current events and over the longer term.
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.
Hello.
Well, sometimes it seems that we're surrounded by turkey Twizzlers, triple-decker cheeseburgers and king-size chocolate bars.
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