Published 2 May 2024 at 12.04
Domestic. During the period 7 October to 31 December 2023, the Crime Prevention Council, Brå identified a total of 110 hate crimes with anti-Semitic motives. That is almost five times as many as the corresponding period the year before.
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After the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and the violent developments that followed, In Sweden as well as internationally, there have been reports of an increased threat against people with a Jewish background and an increase in hate crimes with anti-Semitic motives.
In light of this, Brå has reviewed all reports that the police flagged as hate crimes during the end of 2023, and compared these with the same period in 2022.
The study shows that 110 hate crimes with anti-Semitic motives were reported during the period October 7 to December 31, 2023, which was almost five times more compared to the same period last year. In approximately 20 percent of the notifications in the fall of 2023, there is some form of reference to the Hamas attack on October 7 or the subsequent war in Gaza.
– These include anti-Semitic posters and statements in connection with demonstrations, but also threats and violations against individuals who, based on their Jewish background, were blamed for Israel's actions in Gaza, says Jon Lundgren, investigator at Brå, in a dispatch.
A majority of the reports during the fall of 2023 were classified as incitement against a ethnic group (39 percent) and vandalism (28 percent), which were also the most common crime types during the corresponding period in 2022, with an approximately equal proportion of such crimes (38 and 24 percent, respectively).