A/74/358 37. In 2016, approximately 2,700 antisemitic posts were seen on social networking sites in Brazil, a relatively low number compared to the number of active users of social media. Most of the discourse originated on Twitter and in blog posts and consisted of expressions of hatred against Jews. In Mexico, some 2,000 antisemitic posts were seen on social media in 2016. Here, too, most of the discourse consisted of expressions of hatred that originated on Twitter. Civil society organizations registered a total of 404 antisemitic incidents in Argentina in 2017, a 14 per cent increase compared with 2016. Online incidents accounted for almost 90 per cent of the incidents reported in Argentina in 2017. Those incidents were up significantly, having climbed to 47 per cent in 2014, compared with only 3 per cent in 2008. The circulation of antisemitic propaganda represented a key source of antisemitic manifestations reported in Western European countries. Online incidents constituted 41 per cent of the reported cases in the Netherlands, 45 pe r cent of those registered in Austria and the majority of antisemitic incidents reported in Italy and Switzerland. 59 38. In Australia, antisemitism is most frequently encountered online. 60 In December 2017, Twitter disabled thousands of accounts promoting antisemitic hate, including the account of the Australian neo-Nazi group Antipodean Resistance. 61 However, many of those users later migrated to Gab, and the group ’s Gab account is still in use. 62 39. Antisemitism online includes far-right tropes that Jews spearhead feminist, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex movements and immigration movements as a method of perpetrating a “white genocide”, conspiracy theories that have been repeated in the online manifestos posted by far-right terrorists prior to mass shootings in synagogues. One study of the neo-Nazi web forum Stormfront showed that more than 9,000 threads related to feminism had been established since its inception. 63 Of those threads, more than 60 per cent included mentions of Jews, with many claiming that Jews are leading the feminist movement. 64 In another study focused on 4chan, the authors arrived at a conservative estimate of 630,000 antisemitic posts in 2015, with the figure rising to 1.7 million in 2017. 65 F. Government measures that may infringe upon freedom of religion or belief 40. The Special Rapporteur received information about official laws and policies that have affected the ability of Jewish communities to manifest their religion. Representatives of the Jewish community in Morocco told the Special Rapporteur that Jewish prisoners are forbidden from bringing kosher food into prisons. In Egypt, there have been official restrictions on Jewish festivities, including the festival commemorating the nineteenth century Jewish Rabbi Yaakov Abuhatzeira, which a court found should be permanently banned owing to “its violation of public order and morality and its contradiction with the reverence and purity of religious rites ”. 66 41. Governments in several countries have also adopted measures to prohibit non-stunned slaughter, which is the prescribed method of slaughtering an animal for __________________ 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 12/23 See www.kantorcenter.tau.ac.il/sites/default/files/Antisemitism%20Worldwide%202018.pdf . Based on consultations with the Jewish community. See www.ecaj.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ECAJ-Antisemitism-Report-2018.pdf. Ibid. See www.antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/APT-Google-Report2019.1547210385.pdf. Ibid. See www.antisemitism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/5982-Misogyny-and-AntisemitismBriefing-April-2019-v1.pdf. See www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30626088. 19-16257