COVID-19 has led to a "re-kindling" of antisemitism across Europe as conspiracy theories circulate online that blame Jews for the pandemic, a European rights watchdog warned on Tuesday.
The European Agency for Fundamental Rights, which collates data from civil society groups across the continent, warned that Germany and France had seen the biggest increases. Germany recorded 2,351 antisemitic 'incidents' last year, it revealed, and France 339.
It warned that in other countries a lack of data could be masking increases. In Poland and Hungary, for example, data is not collected and Spain recorded just three incidents, an unlikely tally given increases elsewhere.
"Anti-Semitism is a serious problem, but, without data, we do not know how serious
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