On April 5, 2013, the Expert Group on Anti-Semitism of the Russian Jewish Community, created several years ago with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) presented its report on “Anti-Semitism in Russia in 2011-2012.” Authors of the research concluded that animosity toward Jewish people in Russia is fairly uncommon, although they mentioned worrying manifestations of it among some nationalists, Muslims, and government officials.

Muslim youth in the Flanders region of Belgium - nearly 80 percent - believe that you need to be extra careful if you are doing business with Jews and nearly three-quarters that Jews have too much influence in Flanders. Same percentage believes that Jews think they are better than others.

Is anti-Semitism skyrocketing in France, home to the largest Jewish population in Europe? According to a report published Wednesday by SPCJ (Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive), the security unit of the Jewish communities of France, 2012 was “a year of unprecedented violence against Jews in France,” with 614 anti-Semitic incidents in 2012 as compared to 389 such incidents in 2011. This was a 58 percent increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents.

A report issued by Jewish umbrella organization DAIA on December 18, 2012 shows a small rise in anti-Semitic incidents during the year 2011, but significant change in methods of aggression. Three out of every 10 occurrences happen on the Internet. The report can be read in Spanish by clicking here.

Britain’s Community Security Trust issued a report on Nov. 29, 2012 regarding anti-Semitic discourse in Britain in 2011. They found explicit anti-Semitic statements are rare in Britain, and Jews have largely avoided blame for recent economic troubles, but Zionism was frequently vilified. Report can be found by hitting here.

The Community Security Trust considers it important to study anti-Semitic discourse because such talk can fuel anti-Semitic race hate attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions, and may leave Jews feeling isolated, vulnerable and hurt.

The Anti-Defamation League's annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, posted on Oct. 29, 2012, recorded 1,080 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2011, representing a 13% decrease from the 1,239 incidents reported in 2010.

The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise released the findings of its new study, “Israel and the Campus: The Real Story,” on October 30, 2012. Mitchell Bard, the AICE’s executive director, and Jeff Dawson, the private organization’s campus liaison, authored the report. For a copy of the report, hit here

The report investigates the extent to which an anti-Israel atmosphere exists on American college campuses. They found that few campuses experience anti-Israel events. While Jewish students report a high level of anti-Semitism on campuses, this was not found to be primarily due to a well-funded and organized network promoting the delegitimization of Israel.

A report published in the last week of September 2012 by the Community Security Trust (CST) shows that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK were at about the same level during the months January- June 2012 as they were last year.

The upsurge in anti-Semitism in Venezuela since the advent to power of Hugo Chavez reached new heights with the election as opposition candidate of Henrique Capriles Radonski, a Catholic of Jewish descent, to run against Chavez in the October 7, 2012 presidential election.

[The photo on the top of the article depicts Capriles with a “Star of David” on his lapel. Text Above: The poor will not vote in the primaries Text Below: Rich Democrats vs. Millionaire Jews. Kikirikí Newspaper, February 2012]

Two reports came out recently documenting how the State media and supporters of Chavez, who has ruled Venezuela for the past 14 years, regularly “vilify” his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, derisively referring to his Jewish roots.

In a report released in May 2012 on anti-Semitism in Spain for the year 2011, the Observatorio de Antisemitismo counted more than 1,000 anti-Semitic sites and web pages that it said were created in Spain. In 2010 the observatory counted 400 such sites. The observatory includes Spanish Facebook pages and groups in its reports. Report can be found by pressing here.

A report was published in May of 2012 of results from a survey of Norwegian attitudes toward Jews and other minorities undertaken by the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (HL-center). According to the researchers, prejudice in Norway was quite small, and in a European context, the prevalence of anti-Semitic notions in Norway is on a par with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.

In June 2011, a survey by the Oslo Municipality found that 33 per cent of Jewish students in Oslo are physically threatened or abused by other high school teens at least two to three times a month (compared to 10% for Buddhists and 5.3% of Muslims).

The level of anti-Semitism has been low and stable in the Czech Republic for the past few years, unlike in other European countries, says an annual report on anti-Semitism symptoms in the country in 2011 that the Jewish Community released on May 3, 2012.

The Kantor Center's Program for Study of Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University released their 2011 Anti-Semitism Report on April 18, 2012. The report noted both a "continuation and even escalation of harassment and incitement" and a "considerable decline in major violent incidents world wide" targeting Jews during 2011. The report warns however that in the past few years the scope and brutality of anti-Semitic attacks has risen.

Anti-Semitic attitudes in ten European countries remain at "disturbingly high levels," according to a new poll from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released on March 20, 2012, with large swaths of the population subscribing to classical anti-Semitic notions such as Jews having too much power in business, being more loyal to Israel than their own country, or "talking too much" about what happened during the Holocaust.

The number of recorded anti-Semitic acts in French-speaking Switzerland increased by 28% in 2011 from the previous year, CICAD, a Geneva-based body that coordinates the fight against anti-Semitism and defamation, announced in its annual report.

A study released by the French service for the protection of the Jewish community (SPCJ) together with the French Interior Ministry reported a 16.5% drop in anti-Semitism in France for the year 2011. There are between 483,000 and 500,000 Jews in France making French Jews the world's third largest Jewish community.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom fell in 2011 for the second year running, according to a report published on Feb. 2, 2011 by the Community Security Trust (CST). Around 300,000 Jews live in the UK. To see the report: http://blog.thecst.org.uk/

A report released on Jan. 22, 2012 and written by scholars at the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, says: “[While] the popular uprisings in the Arab world do not represent a general change in attitude towards Israel, Zionism and the Jews it seems the anti-Semitic discourse and incitement have become more extreme and violent.”

An initial summary of findings from the study of Religious Tolerance on Campus was published by the Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR ) in December of 2011. The report is titled “ALONE ON THE QUAD: Understanding Jewish Student Isolation on Campus” and is based on a survey of over 1,400 students in the USA, including oversamples of minority religious groups. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive surveys of its kind.