Anti-Jewish conspiracy theories make a comeback

Last year, instances of anti-Semitism increased in French-speaking Switzerland. The phenomenon is also noticeable in the German-speaking part of the country. The National Socialist rhetoric of the Second World War alleging a “global Jewish conspiracy” is making a comeback. In 2018, the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) registered 42 anti-Semitic incidents in German-speaking Switzerland - not counting online threats or abuse. In French-speaking Switzerland, the Coordination Intercommunautaire Contre l'Antisémitisme et la Diffamation (CICAD) counted 174 incidents of Jewish hatred in the same period. Nearly two-thirds of these took place on social networks. In the 2018 Anti-Semitism Report for German-speaking Switzerland, the SIG describes the most serious incidents in the most populous region of the country. Here are a few examples: - In Zurich, a man ran after a group of Orthodox Jews with a knife in his hand and shouted anti-Semitic slogans. A passer-by was able to ...