German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has addressed the World Jewish Congress in Hungary saying that anti-Semitism has not gone away and cannot be tolerated in any country.

World Jewish Congress Ronald S. Lauder warns that rising anti-Semitism in Hungary is causing local Jews to consider leaving.

A record 10,000 Hungarians took part in an annual march to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, amid rising racism and anti-Semitism in the country in recent months. It was more than double the annual turnout. The ambassadors of Israel and the United States reportedly took part.

A survey conducted in recent weeks among high school students in Warsaw showed that nearly half would not like to have a Jewish neighbor.

Hungary has seen a rise in anti-Semitism with the popularity of the ultra-nationalists growing in difficult economic times but now Hungary’s Jewish communities have come together to create a watchdog organization to monitor anti-Semitism which they have modeled on the leading US based Anti-Defamation League. 

The issue of alarming rise to prominence of anti-Semitic political parties in Europe was raised at a hearing of the US Congress Subcommittee on Human Rights that examined Wednesday the growing threat of anti-Semitism.

Anti-Semitic attacks have sharply risen in France, which saw an increase of 58 percent in in 2012 compared to the previous year.

In 2011 Mark Elchardus, a Belgian sociologist, published a report on Dutch-language elementary schools in Brussels.

The Anti-Defamation League came out storming defence of convicted anti-Semitic designer John Galliano Wednesday proclaiming the disgraced former Christian Dior head an “atoned” character, following a US daily report featuring an image of him in New York apparently mimicking traditional Hasidic ultra Orthodox Jewish dress.

An internal research conducted recently by EJU shows Anti-Semitism in Europe is still a concern throughout most of the EU and non-EU countries.