A/HRC/55/47/Add.2 Gothenburg, Malmö and Norrköping. It works at the local level to promote the acceptance of Jews within Swedish society. At the national level, it strives to promote awareness of Judaism and to monitor and address issues of importance to the Jewish religious minority and the Jewish ethnic community in Sweden. 78. Since 1999, the Jewish community in Sweden has been recognized as one of the national minorities in the country. Yiddish is an officially recognized, non-territorial minority language and an estimated 3,000 Swedish Jews, mainly Polish-born, still speak the language. 79. Antisemitism has been noted as a significant problem by treaty bodies and in the context of the universal periodic review, 37 with the Human Rights Committee drawing attention to the large number of incidents of religious intolerance against persons belonging to religious minorities, including Jews, and attacks against their places of worship, and the underreporting of such cases. 38 During the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism in 2021, the words “The Holocaust was a scam” were projected onto the main synagogue in the city. The Nordic Resistance Movement claimed responsibility for the incident. 80. In its conclusions on combating racism and antisemitism, following up on the first European Union strategy on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, the European Council noted that the Malmö International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism served as a reminder that no effort must be spared in fighting all forms of antisemitism, racism and xenophobia. 81. The Living History Forum has carried out several perception studies on antisemitism in Sweden. A comparative study on antisemitism in Sweden published in 2021 noted a fall in the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes and ideas in the Swedish population between 2005 and 2020. According to the Government, possible contributing factors include increased awareness and knowledge owing to educational and public awareness-raising initiatives on antisemitism, the Holocaust and other genocides. Representatives of the Living History Forum acknowledged that the picture might be incomplete owing to a lack of responses from some sectors of society, and remained concerned at the persistence of antisemitic beliefs among a significant minority of the population. 82. The reported decline in antisemitism contrasts with a widespread view among the Swedish Jews and the public at large that antisemitism is in fact on the rise, and the situation has deteriorated even further following the serious escalations in the conflict in the Middle East. The report concluded that the attitude surveys needed to be complemented by further reports, including on hate crimes, antisemitic rhetoric in political debate and the media, antisemitic propaganda on the Internet, the institutionalized nature of antisemitism within specific political and political-religious movements, and the personal experiences of antisemitism of Jews and others. 83. In 2022 on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Nordic Resistance Movement reportedly vandalized the building of the Living History Forum with antisemitic messages and hung banners with antisemitic messages on walls of schools and shopping centres in the cities of Borlänge and Jönköping. The Swedish Defence Research Agency published a report in 2021 entitled “Antisemitism in social media – conspiracies, stereotypes and Holocaust denial”, which mapped hate speech on social media. In the report, the Agency called for joint efforts by governments and platform companies to stop antisemitic content from appearing on the Internet, and stressed the need for preventive work and educational and awareness-raising activities to stop the spread of antisemitism online. According to the Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities, antisemitism was a growing problem on social media and in connection with the anti-vaccine movement, with some demonstrators against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions having reportedly compared themselves to Jewish victims of the Holocaust and worn a yellow Star of David. 37 38 GE.24-04001 CAT/C/SWE/CO/8, para. 32; CERD/C/SWE/CO/22-23, para. 10; and CCPR/C/SWE/CO/7, para. 16. See also A/HRC/44/12. CCPR/C/SWE/CO/7, para. 16. 15