i24 reports that the United Nations was scheduled to host a meeting next week in Cordoba, Spain, to finalize a long-awaited UN action plan on anti-Semitism. On Sunday, i24NEWS learned that the meeting was postponed to September. 

The source, who was scheduled to attend, said that "their draft plan, which was circulated about two weeks ago, is deeply flawed and generated much criticism. It was clear that nothing would be agreed at Cordoba."

Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli recently spoke with i24NEWS, discussing how the ancient hatred evolved from religious arguments to racist policies, up to its manifestations today. He said, “anti-Semitism today has many forms.”

“The main anti-Semitism that we see today is an attempt to deny the right of the Jewish people to have their own sovereign state,” stated Chikli. He then clarified that it differs from criticism of Israel or political “arguments about Judea and Samaria,” and offered the anti-Semitic BDS movement as an example, which calls for the removal of Israel “from the river to the sea.” 

In April, a study was released by Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which found a sharp increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2022, across the U.S. and other Western countries. Visibly identifiable ultra-Orthodox Jews were the main targets of the assaults. 

Another ADL survey, from May, found that one in four Europeans share anti-Semitic views and that the most persistent anti-Jewish tropes are still popular. Spain, the host country for the UN meeting, had the highest level of anti-Semitic views in Western Europe, with 26 percent of the population. 

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