The Simon Wiesenthal Centre yesterday criticised the international community's "silence" over an outbreak of anti-Jewish acts in the wake of the recent clashes in the Palestinian territories.
The centre, which fights anti-semitism around the world, called on the UN to pass a resolution condemning the acts.
It especially reproached members of the UN Security Council who condemned Israel on October 7th for using "excessive force" against the Palestinian uprising, for not passing a similar resolution against the rise in anti-Semitic acts.
"We call on these countries which voted for a resolution condemning Israel for the violence, to rise up at the United Nations to condemn the some 200 cases of anti-semitism that followed this resolution," Rabbi Marvin Hier told a press briefing in Jerusalem. The centre has reported more than 200 anti-semitic acts since the start of clashes in the Palestinian territories and Israel on September 28th, including more than 100 in France.
It also cited anti-Jewish acts in numerous European countries such as Germany and Britain, as well as Canada, the US, Australia and South Africa.
In London on Monday, an Orthodox Jewish student was seriously wounded in a knife attack on a bus. An Algerian has been charged with attempted murder.