On 15 March 2019, two consecutive terrorist mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand.  In total, 51 Muslims were killed and 89 others were injured. The killer was an Australian man then aged 28. The attacks were mainly motivated by beliefs in white nationalism, anti-immigrant sentiment, and white supremacist beliefs.

Another tragedy was the December 14, 2025 terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Two gunmen opened fire on a crowd celebrating a Hanukkah festival, killing 15 Jewish people and injuring 40 others. It was Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in nearly three decades.

After the May 18, 2026 shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego, police recovered writings, by the two teenage suspects, that expressed hatred not only toward Muslims but a broad range of minority groups. That follows a familiar pattern in which extremist attacks appear motivated by many ideologies. “What we know from the manifesto is it’s a little bit of everything,” says Mia Bloom, a professor at Georgia State University who studies extremism. “They’re elements of far-right, of Islamophobia, of antisemitism, of anti-LGBT, of racism and white supremacy.”

A few decades ago most people thought that the 6 million European Jews who were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust (the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and other groups during World War II) would be so disgusted that it would never happen again. A small reproduction of the Amsterdam annex where Anne Frank hid with her family opened to the public at the Center for Jewish History on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

But in January 2019 the European Commission published the results of a Euro-barometer face-to-face survey of 27,643 people in the 28 Member States of the EU, who were asked about their perception of Antisemitism. There are significant differences in perception among Member........

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