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By TOI Staff - January 24, 2022
Last year was the worse year for antisemitic attacks in a decade, seeing an average of ten incidents a day with the likelihood of many more incidents not being reported, according to an annual review published Monday by the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency.
The Antisemitism Report for 2021 was released ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which falls on Thursday.
2021 was “the most antisemitic year in the last decade,” the two organizations said in a joint statement, “but at the same time, this year no Jew in the world has been murdered on antisemitic grounds.”
The average number of antisemitic incidents reported in 2021 was more than ten per day, the report found.
“However, the actual number of incidents was significantly higher, since many are not reported by the victims out of fear, and due to the lack of surveillance and prosecution of local authorities and law enforcement agencies,” the statement said.
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