The term anti-Semitism was coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879. While both Arabs and Jews are Semites, the term anti-Semitism is specific to Jews - meaning Jew-hatred. Marr used the term to make Jew-hatred seem rational and scientifically-based. In 1879, Marr also founded the League of Anti-Semites which was an organization dedicated to combating the perceived threat of Jews and seeking the removal of Jews from Germany. Anti-semitism is broadly defined within three categories: religious (anti-Judaism), racial, and the new anti-Semitism. Religious anti-Semitism has taken many forms over the years including blood libels, host desecrations, Crusades, Passion Plays, and expulsions. Racial anti-Semitism takes the form of the belief that Jews are a separate-and inferior-race. The new anti-Semitism takes the form of the acceptance of ancient anti-Semitic beliefs mixed with anti-Zionism.^1
1 Wikpedia: Anti-Semitism

Religious Anti-Semitism
Attacks - Slaughter of Jews in the Arabian Penninsula by Mohammed and his men for not accepting Islam; Muslims attack Jews for refusing to acknowledge Mohammed as a prophet; Crusades

Baptism - Forced Christian Baptisms

Blood Libel - Ritual murder; Drinking and/or eating blood of Christian and/or Muslim children

Blood Libel Cults/Saints - Veneration of child saints who were allegedly murdered by Jews for their blood (to make matzah)

Book Burning - Burning of theTalmud, the Torah, and other Jewish books

Crucifixion - Judas and other Jews were responsible for Jesus' crucifixion (Mark 14:43-46, John 19:11, Acts 4:27; 13:27)

Church Leaders and Writers - John Chrysostom (386), Pope Gregory IX (1240), Thomas Aquinas (1260), Pope Clement VI (1264), Pope Nicholas III (1278), John Pectin (1282), Martin Luther (1543, 1546), Pope Paul IV (1555), Pope Pius IV (1559), Pope Sixtus V (1586), Pope Clement VIII (1593), Pope Pius VI (1775), Pope Pius VII (1815), Pope Pius IX (1871)

Church Rulings - First Ecumenical Council of Nicea (325), Code of Theodosius II (429), Council of Vannes (465), Council of Clermont (535), Third Council or Orleans (538), Council of Narbonne (589), Third Council of Toledo (589), Fifth Council of Paris (614), Twelfth Council of Toledo (681), Council of Trullo (692), Council of Narbonne (1050), Seventeenth Council of Toledo (694), Council of Gerona (1078), Third Lateran Council (1179), Fourth Lateran Council (1215), Council of Oxford (1222), Pope Innocent IV  (1244), Synod of Ofen (1279), Pope Julius III (1553), Cardinal Carafa (1553)

Conversion - Forced conversions; Forcing Jews to attend church services; Attempts by Christians and Muslims to convert Jews

Crusades - Christian military campaigns against the Jews and Muslims to regain control of the Holy Land (1095-1272)

Deicide - Killing of G-d (in the form of Jesus)

Desecration - Antiochus Epiphanes sacked the Jerusalem Temple and erected an altar to Zeus; Emperor Hadrian constructed a temple to Jupiter on the site of the Jerusalem Temple

Host Desecration - Desecrating the Host from the Christian mass

Inquisitions - Torture and libels used to maintain Catholic control - used extensively against Conversos/ Marranos

Magic - Possessing magical powers obtained from the Devil

New Testament - Children of the Devil (John 8:37-47); Stiff-necked people (Acts 7:51-53); Synagogue of Satan (Revelations 3:9); Negative stereotypes

Passion Plays - Easter plays about the crucifixion where the Jews are collectively blamed for the crucifixion

Quran/Hadith - Negative stereotypes of Jews; Promoting killing of Jews

Sainthood - Sainthood given to alleged victims of blood libels

Supsessionism - The "New Covenant" from Jesus' death supersedes and replaces the Covenant between G-d and Israel; Quran replaces the "corrupted" Torah/Tanach

Trinity - Ban of the Shema as a denial of the trinity

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Expulsions
Afghanistan (1934)

Austria (1421, 1745, 1938-1945)

England (1240, 1290)

Czech Republic (1540, 1557, 1565)

France (629, 1009, 1182, 1254, 1283, 1289, 1305, 1322, 1384, 1394, 1420, 1615)

Gaul (576)

Germany (1012, 1386, 1492, 1510, 1519, 1615, 1744, 1750, 1933-1945)

Granada (1148)

India (1552)

Italy (1510, 1527, 1550, 1558, 1566, 1590, 1593, 1690, 1670)

Minorca (418)

Morocco (1107)

Palestine (1948)

Poland (1712)

Portugal (1496)

Rome (19, 50)

Russia (1547, 1727, 1742, 1891, 1915)

Sicily (1493)

Spain (1492, 1597)

Tunisia (1016)

Ukraine (1727)

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Pogroms/Anti-Semitic Incidents
*This is not meant as a complete list. Please go here for more information.
Algeria
--Murders (1805)

Arab Lands
--Mass exodus and expulsions of Jews from Arab lands (1948-2001)

Argentina
--Israeli Embassy bombed (1992)
--Argentina-Israeli Mutual Association bombed (1994)
--Swastikas pained on the Holocaust Studies Foundation building in Mendoza (2002)
--Maccabi Club vandalized in Buenos Aires (2002)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Buenos Aires (2002)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Santa Fe (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Buenos Aires (2004)
--School bus belonging to a Jewish school vandalized in Buenos Aires (2004)
--Jewish teenager verbally assaulted in Belgrano (2005)
--Jewish home vandalized in Buenos Aires (2005)
--Jewish Center vandalized in Ramos Mejia (2005)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti at the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti in the Belgrano District in Buenos Aires (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti in Buenos Aires (2006)

Australia
--Attempted arson of the Jewish community building in Canberra (2002)
--Attempted arson of a synagogue in Sydney (2002)
--Vandalism of Liverpool Regional Museum holding an exhibition about Holocaust survivors in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald (2003)
--Anti-Semitic stenciling in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic slogan written on a building in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti in a pub in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on an electricity station in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic propoganda on Holocaust exhibit and the rest of the museum in Sydney (2003)
--Anti-Semitic message left on the answering machine at the Sydney Jewish Museum (2003)
--Synagogoue vandalized in Perth (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Newcastle (2005)
--Man verbally and physically assaulted in Melbourne (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Sydney (2006)
--Attempted arson of a Jewish Center in Sydney (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Sydney (2006)
--Synagogue and Jewish Center vandalized in Melbourne (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Sydney (2006)
--Two Jewish teens were beaten in Melbourne (2007)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti at home in Perth (2008)
--Verbal assault and attempted physical assault on Jewish woman in Perth (2008)

Austria
--Jews in Vienna were forced to wear a badge and a cone-shaped hat (1267)
--Murders (1298)
--Vienna Edict - Persecutions, confiscation of Jewish property, forced conversions, murders (1421)
--Jews were premitted back into Austria as long as they pay a readmission tax (1748)
--Jewish families were limited to one son (1752)
--Karl Leuger founded the anti-Semitic Christian Social Party (1893)
--Pogroms in Vienna and deportation of Jews to concentration camps (1938)
--Rabbi was physically and verbally assaulted in Vienna (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Villach (2004)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Hinterbruehl (2004)
--Chabad school vandalized in Lauder (2006)
--Jewish graves vandalized in Vienna (2008)

Belarus
--Solomon Mikhoels was assassinated (1948)
--Jewish cemeteries were vandalized in Minsk and Borosov (2002)
--Holocaust memorial was vandalized in Lida (2003)
--Arson of a synagogue in Minsk (2003)
--Holocaust memorial was vandalized in Minsk (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Minsk (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Mikashevich (2005)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Brest (2006)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Minsk (2006)
--Swastiaks painted near the Israeli Embassy in Misk (2007)

Belgium
--Attempted arson of a synagogue, Jewish homes and automobiles vandalized, pro-Palestinian demonstration involving burning of the Israeli flag in Antwerp (2002)
--Shooting at a synagogue in Charleroi (2002)
--Jewish-owned businesses vandalized, synagogue fire-bombed in Brussels (2002)
--Attempted arson of a synagogue in Charleroi (2003)
--Synagogue vandalized in Brussels (2003)
--Attempted break in of a synagogue in Rue de la Regence (2003)
--Jewish child verbally assaulted in Brussels (2003)
--Death threats received by a senior member of the Jewish community in Brussels (2003)
--Attempted arson of a synagogue in Charleroi (2003)
--Verbal assault toward those in a Jewish funeral procession in Brussels (2003)
-- Feces spread on the windows and Hebrew language posters of a Jewish preschool in Brussels (2003)
--An optician refused to serve a Jewish woman in Brussels (2003)
--Verbal assult toward children and parents near a Jewish school in Antwerp (2003)
--Verbal assault at a Jewish school in Brussels (2003)
--Verbal assault toward a group of Jewish students at the Ulb University in Brussels (2003)
--Man physically assaulted in Antwerp (2004)
--Second man physically assaulted in Antwerp (2004)
--Jewish teenagers physically assaulted in Antwerp (2004)
--Jewish students verbally and physically attacked in Beringen (2006)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Brussels (2006)
--Anti-Semitic remarks and Holocaust denial on website (2007)

Bolivia
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Cochobamba (2005)

Brazil
--Synagogue vandalized in Rio de Janeiro (2002)
--Telephone threats to the Jewish Agency offices and the Israeli Embassy (2003)
--Threatening letter sent to Israeli offices in Rio de Janeiro (2003)
--Anti-Semitic garffiti found near a synagogue in Curitiba (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti found near a synagogue in Rio de Janeiro (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti found on and near a synagogue in Rio de Janeiro (2003)
--Synagogue vandalized in Campinas (2006)

Callinicum
--Synagogue plundered and burned (388)

Canada
--Jewish Center vandalized in Calgary (2004)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti in Toronto (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Nepean (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Quebec City (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Toronto (2004)
--Arson of a Jewish school in Montreal (2004)
--Synagogoues, Jewish cemeteries, and Jewish schools vandalized in Toronto (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Edmonton (2005)
--Chassidic summer camp vandalized in Val Morin (2005)
--Two synagogoues vandalized in Montreal (2006)
--Jewish boys school bombed in Montreal (2006)
--Swastkia painted on Jewish home in Calgary (2007)

Chile
--Swastikas, anti-Semitic slogans, and threats painted on the Chilean National Television building in Valparaiso (2005)

Colombia
--Anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli graffiti found near Israeli Embassy in Bogota (2006)

Costa Rica
--Anti-Semitic graffiti painted in San Jose (2008)

Cyprus
--Murders (115-117)

Cyrenaica
--Murders (115-117)

Cuba
--S.S. St. Louis carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Germany was turned away (1939)

Czech Republic
--Murders and desctructions of synagogues and cemetaries in Prague (1386)
--Murder libel and murders (1505)
--Mikulov ghetto burned to the ground and Jewish property is pillaged (1590)
--Blood libel in Bohemia (1899)
--Prague Trials (1952)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Krupka (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Trutnov (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Ostrava (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Hranice (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Hroznetin (2005)

Denmark
--Hep-Hep (anti-Jewish) riots (1819)

Egypt/Fatimid
--Manetho alleged Moses was not a Jew and the Exodus was actually and expulsion of a leper colony (3rd Century BCE)
--Blood libel (1st Century)
--Murders (37-41)
--Murders (115-117)
--Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah forced Jews to wear a wooden golden calf around their necks (1008-1013)

England (for modern-day information - see United Kingdom)
--Blood libel (1144)
--York Murders (1190)
--Council of Oxford banned Jews from building new synagogues, owning slaves, or having social interaction with non-Jews (1222)
--Edward I forced Jews to wear identifying badges, banned usury, murdered Jews and confiscated their property (1275)
--Edward I ordered Jews to be present at conversion sermons, arrested heads of Jewish families and held them for ransom (1280)
--John Pectin ordered all London synagogoues closed, banned Jewish doctors from practicing on Christians (1282)
--Edward I confiscated all Jewish property (1290)

Equador
--Anti-Semitic graffiti left on Jewish school in Quito (2003)

Europe
--Jewish Oath - Jews cannot act as a witness against Christians in court (1555)
--Jews accussed and murdered for "poisoning wells" leading the the Black Plague (1348)
--Nazi Germany (1930's-1940's)
--Waves of anti-Semitic attacks (2002)

Finland
--Jewish Community building was vandalized in Helsinki (2002)

France/Gaul/Castille
--First Council of Clermont restricted Jewish occupations (535)
--Third Council or Orleans banned owning non-Jewish slaves, prohibited Jews from appearing on the streets during Easter (538)
--Forced conversions (576)
--Council of Narbonne banned reciting of Psalms during burial (589)
--Fifth Council of Paris restricted Jewish occupations, forced conversions (614)
--Agobard issued pamphlets in an attempt to convince Emperor Louie to attack Jews (826)
--King Charles the Simple confiscated Jewish-owned property and gave it to the church (898-929)
--Council of Narbonne banned social interaction with non-Jews (1050)
--Murders (1143)
--Blood libel and murders (1171)
--Imprisonment of Jews who were held for ransom (1180)
--Philip Augustus annuled all loans made to Christians (1181)
--Philip Augustus confiscated all Jewish property (1182)
--Philip Augustus demanded tax to allow Jews to re-enter Paris (1198)
--Forced conversions, Murders (1236)
--Pope Gregory IX puts the Talmud on trial for blasphemy and ordered copies of the text to be burned (1240)
--Louis IX - on orders from Pope Innocent IV - burned copies of the Talmud (1244)
--Louis IX confiscateed Jewish property and synagogues (1254)
--Philip III banned Jews from living in small, rural communities (1283)
--Philip the Fair banned Jews from settling in France (1291)
--Philip IV confiscated all Jewish property (1305)
--Henry II forced Jews to wear a yellow badge (1321)
--Jews accussed of poisoning wells, Murders (1321)
--Voltaire called Jews "deadly to the human race" and promoted racial anti-Semitism (1771)
--Dreyfus Affair (1894)
--Evian Conference where 31 countries refused to accept Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany (1938)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Marseille (2001)
--Eleven-year-old boy verbally and physcially assaulted by fellow students in Paris (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Marseille (2003)
--Rabbi verbally and physically assaulted in Paris (2003)
--Synagogue vandalized in Paris (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Venissieux (2003)
--Groups of Jews verbally and physically assaulted in Paris (2003)
--A mezzuzah was torn off a Jewish women's home in Paris (2003)
--Physical and verbal assault toward a teenage girl and her younger brother in Paris (2003)
--Vandalism near a synagogue's sukkah in Creteil (2003)
--Smoke bomb thrown at a rabbi's house in Vincennes (2003)
--Vandalism of a Jewish home in Montmagny (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on a Jewish home in Montmagny (2003)
--Jewish man physically assaulted in Vanves (2003)
--Jewish man verbally assault in Paris suburb (2003)
--Jewish worshippers verbally assaulted and threatened in Nanterre (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Brumath (2004)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti in the main public library in Paris (2004)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Lyon (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Saverne (2004)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Rivesaltes (2004)
--Seventeen-year-old girl stabbed in Epinay-sur-Seine (2004)
--Seventeen-year-old boy verbally assaulted in Boulogne-Billancourt (2004)
--Attempted synagogue bombing in Villier-le-Bel (2004)
--Memorial to Jewish soldiers vandalized in Verdun (2004)
--Rabbi and his son assaulted in Paris (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Colmar (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Valenciennes (2004)
--Arson of a Jewish Center and Synagogue in Toulon (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Villiers-au-Bois (2004)
--Arson of a Jewish school bus in Strasbourg (2004)
--Synagogue attacked in Strasbourg (2004)
--Teenage verbally and physically assaulted in Paris (2004)
--Jewish man and his three children verbally assaulted in Paris (2005)
--Man physically and verbally assaulted in Sarcelles (2005)
--Attempted synagogue arson in Stains (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Sarreguemines (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Avignon (2005)
--Attempted bombing of a Jewish-owned bakery in Paris (2005)
--Holocaust memorial arson in Paris (2005)
--Ilan Halmimi was kidnapped and tortured to death (2006)
--Jewish school arson in Gagny (2006)
--Thirteen-year-old boy physically assaulted in Paris (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Saint Quentin (2006)
--Anti-Semitic slogans shouted by extremist marchers in Paris (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Paris (2006)
--Jewish boy verbally and physically assaulted in Lyon (2006)
--Twenty-eight-year-old man verbally and physically assaulted in Sarcelles (2006)
--Seventeen-year-old boy physically assaulted in Sarcelles (2006)
--Eighteen-year-old man verbally and physically assaulted in Sarcelles (2006)
--Eleven-year-old and twelve-year-old boys verbally and physically assaulted in Creteil (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Sarcelles (2006)
--Swastikas painted on private home in Dettwiller (2006)
--Jewish group verbally assaulted in Toulouse (2006)
--Hate mail and death threats sent to man married to a Jew in Saint-Denis (2007)
--Swastika found on Jewish home (2007)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Lille (2007) [article]
--Synagogue vandalized in Strassbourg (2008)

Georgia
--Anti-Semitic newspaper distributed in Tbilisi (2008)

Germany
--Judensau - dehumanizing and obscene images of Jews (13th-18th Century)
--Blood libel (1235)
--Blood libel, Synagogue burned with Jews inside (1285)
--Blood libel and murder (1287)
--Murders (1298)
--Persecutions (1336)
--Emperor Wenceslaus confiscated Jewish property (1386)
--Host Desecration and murders (1492)
--Johannes Pfefferkorn - on authority of Maxmilian I - destroyed the Talmud and other Jewish religious texts (1509)
--Host Desecration, murders (1510)
--Martin Luther wrote On the Jews and Their Lies proposing expulsions or religious conversions of the Jews (1543)
--Martin Luther wrote the sermon Admonition Against the Jews accussing Jews of ritual murder, black magic, and poisoning wells (1546)
--Jews are banned from public worship in Hamburg (1612)
--Synagogue and Jews are attacked in Frankfurt (1614)
--Johann Andreas Eisenmenger wrote Judaism Unmasked denouncing Judaism (1711)
--Hep-Hep (anti-Jewish) riots (1819)
--Adolf Stoecker founded the Social Workers' Party marking the beginning of the political anti-Semitism (1878)
--Heinrich von Treitschke justified anti-Semitic campaigns (1879)
--Wilhelm Marr coined the term "anti-Semitism" (1879)
--First anti-Jewish Congress convened in Dresden (1882)
--Blood libel in Xanten (1891)
--Houston Stewart Chamberlain published Die Grundlagen des 19 Jahrhunderts which became the basis for the National-Socialist ideology (1899)
--Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf (1925)
--Jews stripped of their civil rights and human rights (1933-1941)
--Nuremberg Laws (1935)
--Kristallnacht (1938)
--Shoah (Holocaust) leading to the murder of 6 million Jews (1939-1945)
--Munich Olympic Massacre by Muslims (Black September) (1972)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Berlin (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Beeskow (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Gundesberg (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Ravensbrueck (2003)
--Second Holocaust memorial vandalized in Ravensbrueck (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Kassel (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Saxony-Anhalt (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Berlin (2003)
--Fourteen-year-old girl physically assaulted in Berlin (2003)
--Ninetten-year-old man verbally and physically assaulted in Berlin (2003)
--Man verbally and physcially assaulted in Berlin (2003)
--Twenty-one-year-old man physically assaulted in Berlin (2003)
--Jewish monument vandalized in Berlin (2004)
--Jews leaving a synagogue verbally assaulted and threatened in Hagen (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Dusseldorf (2004)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Berlin (2005)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Dessau (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Ebersburg (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Babenhausen (2005)
--Swastika engraved in a frozen lake in Berlin (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Kehl (2005)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Langenstein-Zweiberge (2006)
--Synagogue memorial vandalized in Forst (2006)
--Kristallnaucht memorial vandalized in Frankfurt an der Oder (2006)
--Non-Jewish student verbally assaulted (for being a friend to Jews) by fellow students in Parey, Saxony-Anhalt (2006)
--Jewish soccer team verbally assaulted in Berlin (2006)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Berlin (2006)
--Five gravestones vandalized in Obernkirchen (2007)
--Nazi symbol left in envelope at Jewish Community Center in Cologne (2008)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Angermuende (2008)

Granada
--Murders (1066)
--Forced conversions (1148)

Greece
--Mnaseas alleged Jews worship a donkey's head in the Holy of Holies and other anti-Semitic myths (2nd Century BCE)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Ioannina (2003)
--Synagogue vandalzied in Ioannina (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Thessaloniki (2003)
--Attempted vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in Thesaloniki (2006)

Hungary
--Blood libel in Tiszaeszlar (1882)
--Anti-Jewish economic laws introduced (1938)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Debrecen (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Gyongyos (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Budapest (2005)
--Synagogye, Holocaust memorial, and Jewish school vandalized in Vac (2006)
--Israeli flags with swastikas displayed by protesters Budapest (2006)

India
--Goa Inquisition (1560)

Iran
--Yazdegerd II banned Shabbat worship, executed Jews (451)
--Holocaust denial (2005-2007)
--Shah Abbasi forced Jews to convert to Islam (1619)
--President Ahmadinejad denied the Shoah (Holocaust) happened in a speech in Zahedan (2005)
--The Shoah (Holocaust) denial International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust took place in Tehran (2006)

Iraq/Abbassid/Baghdad
--Caliph Harun al-Rashid forced Jews to wear a yellow belt (807)
--Forced conversions (1333)
--Farhud pogrom in Baghdad resulting in the murder of 200 Jews (1941)

Ireland
--Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slogans painted near a synagogue in Dublin (2002)
--Synagogue, Jewish cemetery, and Jewish museum vandalized in Dublin (2004)
--Five Jewish communal properties vandalized in Dublin (2005)
--Anti-Semitic message left on synagogue answering machine in Dublin (2008)

Israel
--Jewish grave vandalized in Beer-sheva cemetery (2008)

Italy/Rome
--Emperor Tiberias banned conversion to Judaism (19)
--Emperor Claudius banned meetings (50)
--Emperor Hadrian banned circumcision (119)
--Constantine I banned religious services, conversion to Judaism, owning non-Jewish slaves (315-337)
--Emperor Honorius called Judaism superstition, confiscated gold and silver collected by the synagogues for Jerusalem (399)
--Synagogues plundered and burned (415)
--Emperor Theodosius II ordered all monies collected by Jews to support schools to be surrendered (429)
--Codex Theodosianus - banned on building synagogues, restricted Jewish occupations (439)
--Synagogues plundered and burned (519)
--Jewish Oath - Jews cannot act as a witness against Christians in court (615)
--Third Lateran Council banned Jews from being plaintiffs or witnesses against Christians in the courts, forbade Jews from withholding inheritance from relatives who converted to Christianity (1179)
--Fourth Lateran Council forced Jews to wear identifying symbols (1215)
--Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa Contra Gentiles as a means of converting Jews (1260)
--Pope Clement VI assigned the Talmud censorship committee (1264)
--Pope Nicholas III forced Jews to attend conversion sermons (1278)
--Synod of Ofen declared Christians cannot rent or buy property to or from Jews (1279)
--Blood libel and murders (1475)
--Jews excessively taxed (1510)
--Establishment of a Jewish ghetto (1516)
--Pope Julius III and Cardinal Carafa banned printing of the Talmud and burned all copies (1553)
--Murder (1554)
--Pope Paul IV installed a nightly-locked Jewish ghetto, Jewish males forced to wear yellow hats and Jewish females forced to wear yellow kerchiefs, banned Jews from owning property, banned Jewish doctors from practicing on Christians (1555)
--Paul More entered a synagogue under the protection of Pope Paul IV to preach a conversion sermon (1558)
--Pope Pius IV allowed the Talmud to be published only by Christians after it is censored (1559)
--Pope Sixtus V forbids the printing of the Talmud (1586)
--Ferrara Jewish ghetto established (1624)
--Pope Pius VI reimposed restrictions on the Jews and supressed Judaism (1775)
--Pope Pius VII reestablished the Jewish ghetto in Rome (1815)
--Forced conversion and kidnapping in Bologna (1858)
--Pope Pius IX made an anti-Jewish speech (1871)
--Racial laws introduced (1938)
--RAI vandalized after a Jew is named director in Milan (2003)
--Anti-Israel graffiti throughout Rome (2003)
--Anti-Semitic wine labels throughout the country (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on a Catholic church in Rome (2005)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on businesses in Rome (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish-owned businesses in Livorno (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on property in the Jewish Quarter in Rome (2006)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Milan (2006)

Jerusalem (pre-State of Israel)
--Antiochus Epiphanes banned circumcision, called Judaism "inimical to humanity", confiscated copies of the Torah, erected an altar to Zeus in the Temple (175-165 BCE)
--Judea renamed "Palestine" by Emperor Hadrian (119)
--Emperor Hadrian constructed a temple to Jupiter on the site of the Temple (132-135)

Latvia
--Hep-Hep (anti-Jewish) riots (1819)

Lithuania
--Prince Alexander forced Jews to either convert or have their property confiscated (1498)
--Forced conversions and murders (1563)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Vilnius (2006)

Majorca
--Murders and forced conversions (1435)

Malaysia
--Copies of The International Jew were distributed in Kuala Lumpur (2003)
--Anti-Semitic speech by PM Mahathir Mohammed at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (2003)

Mexico
--Murders (1528)

Minorca
--Forced conversions (418)

Moldova
--Attempted arson of a synagogue in Tiraspol (2004)

Morocco
--Murders (1032)
--Forced conversions (1107)
--Forced conversions (1232)
--Establishment of Jewish ghettos (1438)
--Destruction of Jewish communities (1790-1792)
--Fifty-five-year-old man murdered in Casablanca (2003)

New Zealand
--Anti-Semitic cartoon in the Herald (2003)
--Jewish cemeteries vandalized in Wellington (2004)
--Arson of a synagogoue and a Jewish cemetery vandalized in Wellington (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Christchurch (2006)

Norway
--Shots fired at a synagogoue in Oslo (2006)
--Synagogoue vandalized in Oslo (2006)
--Jewish boy physically assaulted in Oslo (2006)

Palestine
--Synagogues destroyed (419-421)
--Muslim pogrom against Jews in Jerusalem (1920)
--Jaffa riots leading to the murder of 45 Jews by Muslims (1921)
--Hebron massacre leading to the murder of 67 Jews by Muslims and the destruction of the Hebron Jewish community (1929)
--Muslims destroy synagogues in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem (1948)

Poland
--Jews in Breslau forced to live in a segregated part of the city (1267)
--Blood libel (1399)
--Blood libel and murder (1564)
--Blood libel in Sandomierz (1712)
--Murder libel (1790)
--Hep-Hep (anti-Jewish) riots (1819)
--Jedwabne Massacre (1941)
--Kielce pogrom leading to the murder of 37 Jews (1946)
--State-organized anti-Semitic campaigns (1968)
--Jewish cemetery vandazlied in Oswiecim (2003)
--Synagogue vandalized in Krakow (2004)
--Anti-Semitic statements made on Radio Maryja (2005)
--Rabbi verbally and physically assaulted in Warsaw (2006)

Portugal
--Forced conversions (1496)
--Murders and ransacked Jewish property (1506)
--Murder (1603)

Romania
--A. C. Cuza founded the Universal Anti-Semitic Alliance in Bucharest (1895)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Cluj (2004)

Russia
--Catherine II doubled taxes on the Jews and forced them to settle in the Pale of Settlement (1791)
--Jewish boys under 18 forced into preparatory military training (Cannonists) and encouraged/forced to convert to Christianity (1827)
--Oppressive laws against the Jews under Czar Nicolas I (1835)
--Blood libel in Saratov and throughout Russia (1853)
--Pogroms throughout Russia (1881-1884)
--Alexander III instated anti-Jewish laws (1882)
--Education quotas for the Jews (1887)
--Kishinev Pogrom resulted in the murder of 49 Jews (1903)
--First publication of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in St. Petersburg (1903)
--Pogroms through Russia leading to the murders of 70,000-250,000 Jews (1917-1921)
--Jews were arrested, Hebrew was banned, Judaism was banned (1920)
--Night of the Murdered Poets leading to the murders of 13 Jews (1952)
--Doctors' Plot (1953)
--Rise of Zionology (1960-1991)
--Bomb scare at a synagogue in Novgorod (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Pyatigorsk (2003)
--Synagogue vandalized in Yaroslavl (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Makhachkala (2003)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti found throughout Samara (2003)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Novorossisk (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Saint Petersburg (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Pyatigorsk (2004)
--Kosher restaurant vandalized in Saint Petersburg (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Saint Petersburg (2004)
--Synagogue bombed in Derbent (2004)
--Members of the Duma called for Judaism and Jewish institutions to be banned in Russia (2005)
--Russia launches an investigation into anti-Russian writings in Jewish texts (2005)
--Kosher restaurant vandalized in Saint Petersburg (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Saint Petersburg (2005)
--Kosher supermarket vandalized in Moscow (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Kazon (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Moscow (2005)
--Synagogue arson in Moscow (2005)
--Synagogue vandalized in Samara (2005)
--Synagogue and Yeshiva vandalized in Saltykovka (2005)
--Rabbi physically assaulted in Moscow (2005)
--Rabbi physically assaulted in Moscow (2005)
--Synagogue and Yeshiva arson in Saltykovka (2005)
--Jewish school vandalized in Volgograd (2006)
--Jewish community offices vandalized in Surgut (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Vladivostok (2006)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized and anti-Semitic literature distributed in Tver (2006)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Volgograd (2006)
--Jewish man physically assaulted in Moscow (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Khabarovsk (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Astrakhan (2006)
--Attempted synagogue arson in Habarovsk (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Orenburg (2006)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Omsk (2006)
--Attempted murder of a Jewish man in Saint Petersburg (2006)
--Synagogue worshippers verbally and physically threatened in Rostov-on-Don (2006)
--Attempted murders in Moscow (2006)
--Jewish man murdered in Moscow (2007)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on Jewish facility in Murmansk (2007)
--Cemetery and Holocaust memorial vandalized in St. Petersburg (2007)
--Rabbi's home was vandalized in Derbent (2008)
--Synagogue vandalized in Makhachkala (2008)
--Literature distributed in Novosibirsk, Russia, warned gentiles to beware of the Jews (2008) [article] NEW

Saudi Arabia
--Anti-Semitic speech given by Dr. Mahathir Mohammed at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (2003)

Serbia
--Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti was found throughout Belgrade (2005)
--Two Israelis verbally and physically assaulted in Belgrade (2006)

Slovakia
--Jewish cemetery was vandalized in Kosice (2002)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Humenne (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Nove Mesto nad Vahom (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Banovce nad Bedravou (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Michalovce (2005)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Rimavska Sobota (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Bratislava (2005)

South Africa
--Jewish cemeteries were vandalized in Cape Town (2002)

Spain/Hispania/Aragon
--Synod of Elvira banned social interaction with non-Jews (306)
--Third Council of Toledo banned owning non-Jewish slaves, social interaction with non-Jews, restricted Jewish occupations (589)
--King Sisebur banned Judaism, forced conversions (610-620)
--Burning of Talmud and other Jewish books (681)
--King Ergica forced all property bought by Jews from Christians to be surrendered to his treasury, forced conversions (694)
--Council of Gerona demanded Jews pay taxes to support the Catholic church (1078)
--James I ordered Jews to attend church services and listen to conversion sermons, gave friars permission to enter synagogues at will (1242)
--Blood libel (1250)
--Murders and destruction of Jewish communities (1391)
--Oppressive legislation (1411)
--Forced conversion (1413)
--Murders (1473-1474)
--Tomas de Torquemada burned Jewish manuscripts (1490)
--Blood libel (1491)
--Anti-Semitic taunts at an Israeli goalkeeper during a soccer game in Pamplona (2006)

Sweden
--People protesting wave of anti-Semitism were attacked in Stockholm (2002)
--Attempted arson of a purification room of a Jewish cemetery in Malmo (2003)
--Anti-Semitic threatening e-mail sent to a journalist at the Jewish newspaper Judisk Kronika (2003)
--Customer shouted anti-Semitic epithets at a tennis club worker in Stockholm (2003)
--Staff member made anti-Semitic remarks to a teacher in Stockholm (2003)
--Students physically and verbally assaulted by fellow students during a school soccer game in Stockholm (2003)
--Anti-Israel posters posted in Stockholm (2003)

Switzerland
--Council of Bassel banned Jews from obtaining accademic degrees or from acting as agents in contracts between Christians (1434)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Vevey-Montreux (2005)
--Synagogue and Jewish-owned shop bombed in Lugano (2005)
--Synagogue vandalized in Lausanne (2006)

Syria
--Synagogues plundered and burned (415)
--Ritual murder charge (415)
--Pact of Umar treated Jews as dhimmis which included extra taxes and restrictions on other rights (717)
--Blood libel in Damascus leading to arrests and attacks upon Jews throughout the Middle-East (1840)

Tajikistan
--Attempted arson of the synagogue in Dushnabe (2006)

Tasmania
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on Parliament House lawn in Hobart (2004)

Tunisia
--Forced conversions (1016)
--Jews sold into slavery (1535)
--Manouba University students verbally and physically assaulted Jews and non-Jews protecting them in Tunis (2006)

Turkey/Byzantine
--Deicide (167)
--First Ecumenical Council of Nicea declared the separation of Easter from Passover in order to separate Christians from "the detestable company of Jews" (325)
--Corpus Juris Civilis banned use of Hebrew in worship, restricted citizenship to Christians, restricted Jewish civil rights (529)
--Council of Trullo banned social interaction with non-Jews (692)
--Forced conversions (722)
--Two synagogues bombed in Istanbul (2003)
--Thirty-five-year-old man murdered in Istanbul (2003)

Ukraine
--Cossacks murdered 100,000 Jews (1648-1655)
--100 Jews killed in the Lvov ghetto uprising (1664)
--Haidamaks attack Jews (1736)
--Haidamaks attack Jews in Uman (1768)
--Blood libel in Kiev (1911)
--Nikita Khrushchev closed most synagogues and banned Jewish refugees from returning to their homes (1946)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on the Jewish Agency offices in Kanatov (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Kiev (2004)
--Synagogue vandalized in Odessa (2004)
--Rabbi and his son physically assaulted in Kiev (2005)
--Yeshiva students physically assaulted in Kiev (2005)
--Jewish Centers vandalized in Kiev (2005)
--Synagogue vandalized in Dnepropetrovsk (2005)
--Four Jews verbally and physically assaulted in Zhitomir (2005)
--Synagogue vandalized in Kiev (2005)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Kiev (2006)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Sevastopol (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Simferopol (2006)
--Rabbinic student physically assaulted in Dnepropetrovsk (2006)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Odessa (2006)
--Yeshiva student verbally and physically assaulted in Kiev (2006)
--Man broke into a synagogue with a knife in Kiev (2006)
--Swastika painted on a Bet Din facility (2007)
--Call for murder of Jews distributed in Russian Orthodox churches (2008)

United Kingdom
--Jewish cemetery were vandalized, youth wearing a Magen David t-shirt was attacked, synagogues were vandalized in London, England (2002)
--Synagogoue and Torah Scrolls were vandalized and burned in Swansea, Wales (2002)
--Synagogue was vandalized in Manchester, England (2002)
--Synagogoue was vandalized in Glasgow, Scotland (2002)
--Synagogue vandalized in London (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Medway (2003)
--Synagogoue vandalized in Manchester (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Manchester (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Southampton (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in London (2003)
--Telephone threats to synagogues and Jewish organizations in London (2003)
--Verbal assault toward a Jewish family in Middlesex (2003)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Aldershot (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Birmingham (2004)
--Synagogue and Aish HaTorah vandalized and burned in London (2004)
--Synagogue arson in London (2004)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in London (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Manchester (2005)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Aldershot (2005)
--Multiple incidents of Jews verbally and physically assaulted in Stamford Hill (2005)
--Synagogue vandalized in London (2006)
--Jewish cemetery was vandalized in Manchester (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on building in Wiltshire (2006)
--Twelve-year-old girl physically assaulted in London (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Glasgow, Scotland (2006)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in Derby (2006)
--Egg thrown at Jew in London (2007)
--Anti-Semitic grafitti in a library in Chester (2007)
--Holocaust denial letter sent to (Jewish) Lord in London (2008)
--Verbal assault of a Jew in Middlesex (2008)
--Verbal assault of a Jew in London (2008)
--Verbal assault of Jewish school students in London (2008)
--Verbal assault of a Jewish man in London (2008)
--Verbal assault of Jewish school students in Manchester (2008)
--Arson at a Jewish center in Gateshead (2008)
--Physical assault of three Jewish boys in Manchester (2008)
--Verbal assault of Jewish man in Manchester (2008)

United States
--Rhode Island refused to grant Jews citizenship (1762)
--General Grant ordered all Jews out of his military district (1862)
--Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta, Georgia (1915)
--Henry Ford printed 500,000 copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and began a series of
anti-Semitic articles in The Dearborn Independent (1920)
--Anti-Semitic activities conducted by the Ku Klux Klan (1921-1925)
--Father Charles Coughlin began weekly anti-Semitic radio broadcasts (1938)
--S.S. St. Louis carrying 907 Jewish refugees from Germany was turned away (1939)
--Shooting and murder at the Los Angeles, California Jewish Community Center by an Aryan Nation member (1999)
--Anti-Semitic cartoon appeared in the Chicago Tribune (2003)
--Swastika painted on a synagogue in Portland, Maine (2005)
--Shooting and murder at the Seattle, Washington Jewish Federation by a Muslim (2006)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti painted in various places in Wheaton, Maryland (2007) [news video]
--Anti-Semitic graffiti painted on a Jewish school in Denver, Colorado (2007)
--Anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti painted on synagogue in Chicago, Illinois (2007) [article]
--Swastika painted on synagogue in San Francisco, California (2007) [article]
--Bomb left outside a synagogue in Muskogee, Oklahoma (2007) [article]
--Anti-Semitic graffiti found on playground in Wallington, New Jersey (2007) [article]
--White Supremacist literature left in Berkeley, California neighborhoods (2007) [article]
--Swastika and anti-Semitic graffiti painted on Jewish senior center in Brooklyn, New York (2008)
--Jewish cemetery vandalized in New Brunswick, New Jersey (2008) [news video]
--Anti-Semitic graffiti painted in cemetery near Chicago, Illinois (2008) [news video]
--Rabbi physically assaulted in Brooklyn, New York (2008) [article] NEW
--Firebombing of the Rhode Island Jewish Agency emissary's home in Providence, Rhode Island (2008) [article] NEW

Uraguay
--Swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti were painted in Montevideo (2002)
--Holocaust memorial vandalized in Montevideo (2006)

Venezuela
--Swastikas, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti were painted on the Hebraica Club in Caracas (2002)
--Anti-Semitic graffiti on property in Los Chorros neighborhood in Caracas (2006)
--Synagogue vandalized in Caracas (2006)

Yemen
--Forced conversions (1165)
--Forced conversions to Islam (1678)

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