Antisemitism in Austria Remains High

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Anti-Semitic incidents in Austria remain at a high level, despite a slight decline last year, according to the Jewish Community in Vienna (IKG). The IKG said on Monday that 719 incidents were reported to its anti-Semitism monitoring centre in 2022. Although this is a decrease of 25.5% compared to the previous year, it is the second-highest value since the office began documenting incidents in 2008, IKG President Oskar Deutsch said. More than half of the reports could be attributed to a political right-wing spectrum, 20% to the left and 9% to perpetrators with a Muslim background, Deutsch said,…

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