The Office of the Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism released today a report on Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism. This report, which was provided to the U.S. Congress earlier this morning, is a follow-up to the State Department’s January 2005 Report on Global Anti-Semitism. It reflects the United States’ deep commitment to take a strong stand against growing anti-Semitism around the world.

This report is dedicated to the memory of Tom Lantos, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, a leader of moral force and a champion of human rights. As the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, he attested with uncommon eloquence to a truth based on unspeakable experience: promoting tolerance is essential to building a world of freedom and peace. It is in this spirit that the State Department will continue promoting tolerance and freedom around the world.

The report is thematic in nature and, using illustrative examples of contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, provides a broad overview of anti-Semitic incidents, discourse and trends. The report documents traditional forms of anti-Semitism such as those associated with Nazism, but also discusses new manifestations of anti-Semitism, including instances when criticism of Israel and Zionism crosses the line into anti-Semitism. The report covers anti-Semitism in both government and private media, and within the United Nations system. It concludes with a review of governmental and nongovernmental efforts to combat the problem.

The report is meant to serve as a resource for increasing understanding of contemporary forms of anti-Semitism and for shaping strategies to combat this growing problem worldwide.

The report on Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism is available in PDF format (94 pages).

The 2005 Report on Global Anti-Semitism is availabe on the State Department website.

“The Jewish people have seen, over the years and over the centuries, that hate prepares the way for violence. The refusal to expose and confront intolerance can lead to crimes beyond imagining. So we have a duty to expose and confront anti-Semitism, wherever it is found.”
- President George W. Bush
May 18, 2004
Washington, D.C.

“Gathered in this place we are reminded that such immense cruelty did not happen in a far-away, uncivilized corner of the world, but rather in the very heart of the civilized world.…The story of the [concentration] camps reminds us that evil is real, and must be called by its name, and must be confronted. We are reminded that anti-Semitism may begin with words, but rarely stops with words...and the message of intolerance and hatred must be opposed before it turns into acts of horror.”
- Vice President Richard B. Cheney
January 27, 2005
Krakow, Poland