A/74/358 reportedly motivated by violent Islamist-extremist ideology. 37 In 2012, a suicide bomber allegedly affiliated with Hizbullah detonated a bomb on a bus at the airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, killing five Israeli tourists. 38 In 2008, Islamist terrorists attacked a centre of the Chabad Lubavitch movement in Mumbai, India, as part of 11 coordinated shootings and bombings across the city, killing five people, in cluding a rabbi. 28. In 2017, some 58 per cent of hate crimes committed in the United States that were motivated by bias against a person’s religious identity were driven by anti-Jewish bias. 39 Approximately 41 per cent (842) of all hate crimes committed in Canada in 2017 were motivated by bias against people’s religious orientation, up 83 per cent from the previous year. 40 29. In Western Europe, the French authorities reported that antisemitic acts had increased by 74 per cent from 2017 to 2018, 41 with such acts constituting half of all documented hate crimes and nearly 15 per cent of the incidents involving physical violence. 42 The German authorities reported a 10 per cent rise in documented antisemitic acts from 2017 to 2018, including a 70 per cent increase in violent acts. 43 In May 2019, the German Government commissioner on antisemitism warned Jews against wearing the kippa in public for fear of their safety. 44 Similarly, civil society groups in the United Kingdom reported a 16 per cent increase in antisemitic incidents from 2017 to 2018. 45 Reports indicated that Jews in the United Kingdom who wear visible indicators of their religion are especially susceptible to verbal attacks and harassment. According to the 2018 survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 12 States that are home to over 96 per cent of the Jewish population of the European Union, 89 per cent of respondents indicated that antisemitism had increased in their country. 46 30. The Special Rapporteur received numerous accounts concerning vandalism and desecration of Jewish synagogues and cemeteries, as well as other recognizably Jewish sites. The Gothenburg Synagogue in Sweden was attacked in 2017. In March 2018, 11 suspected members of a violent neo-Nazi group were arrested in connection with the vandalization of the entrance to a Jewish cemetery outside Athens. 47 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recently condemned repeated instances of vandalism, including with swastikas, of a Holocaust me morial exhibition in Vienna. 48 31. The Special Rapporteur received accounts of attacks on Jewish sites in the Republic of Moldova, where a Holocaust memorial was damaged before its unveiling __________________ 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 10/23 See https://ctc.usma.edu/terrorist-attacks-jewish-targets-west-2012-2019-atlantic-divideeuropean-american-attackers/. Nicholas Kulish, Eric Schmitt and Matthew Brunwasser, “Bulgaria implicates Hezbollah in July attack on Israelis”, New York Times, 5 February 2013. See https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/victims. See www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2019001/article/00008-eng.htm. See www.france24.com/en/20190212-france-anti-semitism-acts-outrage-rise-vandalism-jewishsymbols-halimi-veil-bagelstein. See www.kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/sites/default/files/Antisemitism%20Worldwide%202018.pdf . See www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/antisemitische-kriminalitaet-gewalt-gegen-juden-drastischgestiegen/23980318.html. See www.dw.com/en/german-official-warns-jews-against-wearing-kippahs-in-public/a-48874433. See https://cst.org.uk/news/blog/2019/02/07/antisemitic-incidents-report-2018. See European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism. https://greekcitytimes.com/2018/03/07/greek-counter-terrorism-police-arrest-six-in-neo-nazicombat-18-crackdown/. See www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24652&LangID=E . 19-16257