(Jewish Group) Hate against Jews: data gaps hide true picture (Europe)
Government and civil society require adequate data to tackle the hatred towards Jews that pervades Europe. But, as FRAs latest antisemitism overview reveals, large gaps in collecting data remain. This annual overview reveals hardly any change in the 16 years of monitoring such data collection.
Some EU Member States do not collect any official data at all. For example, there is no official data on reported antisemitic incidents for Hungary and Portugal for 2019.
Existing data are generally not comparable across EU Member States. This is because they use different methods to collect the data and draw data from different sources.
In addition, official data collection systems do not always categorise incidents as antisemitic.
These are some of the reasons why responses to antisemitism so often are ineffective.
Again, as in previous years, the overview underlines the need for sustained efforts to improve data collection. This includes new methods, data sources and data processing techniques to better measure the incidence and effect of hatred against Jews.
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