Antisemitic victimisation of Jews in Europe

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The picture of self-reported antisemitic victimisation of Jews in Europe should be known considerably better than it is at present. Antisemitic harassment, shown in the figure below, includes antisemitic threatening comments in person, online and via email/texting, threats of violence and offensive gestures, targeting Jews as Jews. The fact that about a quarter of Jews in Europe are exposed to such harassment on an annual basis is not very well known in itself. This is unfortunate; the data are as sound as it gets. They originate in the European surveys of Jewish experiences of antisemitism and , unlike the official police-recorded statistics of incidents, or indeed statistics of incidents maintained by the Jewish security organisations, are unaffected by under-reporting. What raises the value of these data further is that here it is set in a comparative context: antisemitic victimisation alongside hate-motivated harassment of ethnic and immigrants minorities, also obtained from the surveys of minorities conducted in Europe.Voila...Antisemitic harassment...
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THE SIX DAYS WAR: A MIRACLE OR NOT?

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The Six Days War was fought by Israel against Jordan, Egypt and Syria between 5 and 10 of June 1967. It resulted in acquisition by Israel of the territories of Judea and Samaria, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula. The control over Gaza Strip and Sinai has been ceded since. Of all wars Israel ever engaged in, the Six Days War was the most significant for the Israeli and Jewish morale – it was won in a manner and at a speed that would make Israelis and Jews all over the world to use the word ‘miracle’ in their descriptions of the War. Professor Yoel Elitzur is a Hebrew Linguistics professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works closely with biblical archaeologists and other experts in ancient Jewish history. In that area there are two approaches: the maximalist that says ‘everything described in the Torah is the truth, give and take a few details’ and the minimalist that says ‘it...
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ISRAELI POPULATION: BIG AND GETTING BIGGER

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On the eve of the seventy-third anniversary of the State of Israel, Israeli population stands on 9.3 million – the Central Bureau of Statistics of Israel informs us nonchalantly. Modesty is a noble quality. Except where it is misplaced. This positions Israel in a very respectable place among the nations of Europe. Many Northern and Central European countries have smaller populations compared to Israel. In fact, Israel is now bigger than Austria and Switzerland and is only slightly smaller than Hungary and Portugal. I plot Israel’s today positioning in Europe below. The European population giants, led by Russia, are placed at the top of the graph, if they are placed inside, everyone else would look miniscule, but I retain them in the table to show the complete European picture. Sources: Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), United Nations World Population Prospects. Users should quote the original sources as well asDaniel Staetsky, Jewish World in Data Indeed, small populations is a European norm, as I...
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