Far-right politics has surged across Europe with new racism and antisemitism.

Evidence

The rise of extreme right-wing and neofascist movements and parties in the past decade in both Western and Eastern Europe has resulted in the emergence of new forms of racist politics, a surge in popular racism, and violence against migrant communities. At the same time, we have seen a noticeable rise in antisemitism in many European countries, East and West, evident equally in physical and symbolic threats to Jewish and Roma/Sinti communities. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 109 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Matti Bunzl has argued that while overt political antisemitism still exists in contemporary Europe, it is embraced mainly by the extreme Right, which occupies only a marginal position on the political horizon of the continent. When it comes to Muslims, Bunzl argues, Islamophobic political and mass media agendas appear to be much more mainstream. … For instance, Didier Fassin has highlighted how in France freedom of speech laws put Muslims at a disadvantage, and how Charlie Hebdo itself had put limits to its application of free speech when they fired one of its cartoonists for writing an antisemitic piece, but ignored contributions that were clearly Islamophobic. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1754 (#complicates, via linked claim)

This is one of the reasons which explains why it is so difficult to find ground for agreement in the harmonization of national endeavors to combat racism at the European level. Furthermore, racism seems to be so much part of the approaches which are primarily characteristic of, and specific to, each country that it is superficial, if not artificial, to seek to demonstrate the existence of any form of structuring at the European level. It is true that extreme right-wing forms of racism endeavor to forge links, and to network; but experience shows that their concerns are first and foremost at the national level. Their nationalism encourages them to continue in this direction. Extreme right-wing groups do have international contacts and exchange information, ideas, and personnel; but this is all somewhat limited and there is definitely no immediate likelihood of a united European racism. Given that the radical right are united in their opposition to Europe, one might even say that the net result of the phenomenon was unfavorable. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3145 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hate crimes, hate groups, and antisemitic incidents all surged sharply from 2016 to 2017. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 51; European racism has surged through right-wing parties and antisemitism in recent decades — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 109; European Islamophobia has moved from the far right into the political mainstream. — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 480 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• European racism has surged through right-wing parties and antisemitism in recent decades #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 109
• Islamophobia is mainstream in Europe while political antisemitism stays marginal #complicates (0.78) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1754
• Euroskeptic nationalism prevents a united European extreme-right racism #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3145