Human Rights Watch: Interview - Antisemitism and Islamophobia Spike in Europe
December 19, 2023
December 19, 2023
NEW YORK, Dec. 19 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following transcript of an interview on Dec. 18, 2023:
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A German lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background received threatening notes with glass and feces. A Polish lawmaker brandishing a fire extinguisher put out Hanukkah candles in the Parliament building. A pig's head was left near the site for a proposed mosque in England. A wave of antisemitic graffiti appeared in Paris and its suburbs. The escalation in hostiliti . . .
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A German lawmaker of Kurdish-Syrian background received threatening notes with glass and feces. A Polish lawmaker brandishing a fire extinguisher put out Hanukkah candles in the Parliament building. A pig's head was left near the site for a proposed mosque in England. A wave of antisemitic graffiti appeared in Paris and its suburbs. The escalation in hostiliti . . .