{"id":365163,"date":"2010-02-25T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-1110298860721423757"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T17:24:00","slug":"anti-semitic-incidents-on-rise-in-canada-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365163","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Semitic incidents on rise in Canada: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Incidents of anti-Semitism in Canada have risen 11.4 percent since 2008, according to a Wednesday report by B&#8217;nai Brith Canada. The group found that there were 1,264 incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, violence, and vandalism in Canada during 2009. It also said that anti-Semitic incidents increased globally in 2009, linking them to a rise in Middle East strife:t is becoming increasingly complex to isolate anti-Israel rhetoric, which has been intentionally entangled in antisemitic discourse &#8211; from a completely separate, more &#8220;traditional&#8221; anti-Jewish hatred unconnected in any way to the Middle East conflict.The group concluded by saying that the combination of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents has led to &#8220;creeping desensitization towards the defamation and resultant marginalization of the Jewish community,&#8221; but that the trends should not be ignored.In March 2009, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that there was a rise in European anti-Semitism incidents since December of that year. In November 2008, the German parliament passed a resolution requiring the government to track reports of anti-Semitism in the country and fund education to combat the problem. The Council of Europe released a report in July 2008 emphasizing the need for European countries to examine their human rights records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Incidents of anti-Semitism in Canada have risen 11.4 percent since 2008, according to a Wednesday report by B&#8217;nai Brith Canada. The group found that there were 1,264 incidents of anti-Semitic harassment, violence, and vandalism in Canada during 2009. It also said that anti-Semitic incidents increased globally in 2009, linking them to a rise in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}