To Tackle Hate against Jews and Muslims, EU Governments Need Better Statistics

Rising antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred in Europe amid the recent hostilities in Israel-Palestine has prompted deep concern. Yet the response by EU governments has been partial and ineffective, in part because they lack adequate anti-discrimination data and protection strategies that address the daily lived experiences of discrimination faced by Jewish and Muslim people.

Both the EU Anti-Racism Action Plan 2020-2025, designed to structurally tackle racism in the European Union, and the EU Strategy on Combating Antisemitism and Fostering Jewish Life call on EU states to collect disaggregated equality data...

While comprehensive surveys, monitoring, and reporting conducted by national institutes and regional rights bodies are much needed, they cannot substitute for the failure of governments to adopt robust strategies to tackle the harms experienced by Muslims and Jews, including the collection of equality data.