1. 1 Antisemitism summary overview of the situation in the European Union 2001-2009

2. 2  2000 EU Charter of Fundamental Rights  2007 EU Agency for Fundamental Rights Objective: to provide EU and MSs with evidence based advice on fundamental rights, when they implement EU law  Multi-annual framework set by Council  Geographical scope: EU (& accession countries) EU Agency for Fundamental Rights

3. 3 National Liaison Officers Fundamental Rights Platform

4. 4  Policy relevant research  International definitions and standards (EU - CoE - UN)  Policy relevant research  Interdisciplinary ‘socio – legal’ approach  EU wide data collection network FRANET  Secondary data: Collection and comparative analysis  Primary research: Quantitative and qualitative fieldwork  Developing rights based indicators 4 Data collection: methodology

5. 5 Antisemitism in the EU  7th update situation report on antisemitism in the EU  2001 - 2009 official and non-official statistics + Incidents identified by NGOs and media reports  Statistical data (official and/or non-official) available for Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, UK  Limited information on incidents in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and Spain

6. 6 Data collection deficiencies  Under-reporting: official systems of data collection that are based on police records and criminal justice data do not always disaggregate registered antisemitic acts; many not reported to official bodies  Over-reporting: unofficial systems of data collection may record the same incident under different categories –OSCE  48 MSs, among them 19 EU MSs, did not submit data to the last OSCE hate crime report

7. 7  2 years project financed by the EC to improve monitoring and recording of hate crimes and incidents throughout the European Union  http://www.ceji.org/facingfacts/ http://www.ceji.org/facingfacts/

8. 8 Official data on anti-Semitic incidents Countries with the best data collection systems risk being portrayed as those with the worst problem

9. 9 We are concerned about…  The continuing paucity of criminal justice data  Far right and left rhetoric linking the economic crisis increasingly to “banks and the rich”  Persisting traditional antisemitic stereotypes with reference to the Middle East conflict  The paucity of criminal justice data on the identities and motivation of perpetrators of antisemitic acts

10. 10 Initiating major primary research Major survey in BE, FR, DE, GR, HU, LV, RO, SE and UK: investigating experiences and views of Jewish women and men 16+ (sample 350 – 1,000 per MS) through standardised online (RDS + open) questionnaire on issues, such as: –Safety and security –Hate crime and hate speech –Discrimination and harassment –Reasons for not reporting incidents –Awareness of rights and remedies –Perceptions of antisemitism in society

11. 11 Policy relevant research  €500,000 survey offers unique opportunity to gather credible data on Jewish experiences of, attitudes towards, and responses to contemporary antisemitism  Gathering high quality data across the EU to inform policy makers about how to measure and tackle antisemitism  Close consultation with MSs, e.g. FR, SE, HU, DE and UK + key NGOs, e.g. Institute for Jewish Policy Research, European Jewish Congress, Anne Frank House, CST, European Shoah Legacy Institute, World Jewish Congress, World Jewish Diplomatic Corps, Wiesenthal Centre, CEJI, etc.

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