A/HRC/44/58 2019 election by running a racist, sexist and homophobic campaign.9 Vox won 52 seats in Congress, a sharp increase from the previous year, when it held no parliamentary seats. 29. In a European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 2018 survey of almost 16,500 individuals who identified as Jewish in 12 European Union member States, revealed that 39 per cent of respondents had experienced physical violence, harassment and/or vandalism of property in the preceding five years.10 More than 28 per cent of the respondents reported that they had been victims of hate crimes in the 12 months before the survey. In the Eurobarometer survey on perceptions of antisemitism, conducted in 28 European Union Member States, about 89 per cent of Jewish respondents and 50 per cent of general respondents expressed concern that antisemitism was increasing in their country.11 30. The prevalence of hate speech in politics is a serious problem in many countries. It is a threat to racial equality and undermines racial, ethnic and religious groups’ trust in government. A confidential submission from a non-governmental organization from Canada shed light on the discriminatory challenges indigenous peoples faced, describing in detail how the confluence of racism, xenophobia, settler denialism and white supremacy had driven the resurgence of racism against indigenous peoples and other racial groups in Canada. 31. In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 672 hate crimes were recorded between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018.12 In 2019, Community Security Trust recorded 1,805 antisemitic incidents across the State, the highest annual total to date.13 Civil society groups reported that a climate of hate was being driven by politicians and contributing to increased racist incidents. Human rights groups raised serious concerns about the Prime Minister’s racist, Islamophobic and homophobic statements targeting, respectively, Black British communities, Muslim women and gay men.14 32. In its survey of antisemitic attitudes in 18 countries, including 14 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, Argentina, Brazil, Canada and South Africa, 15 the AntiDefamation League found an increase in antisemitic prejudice.16 The 2019 survey drew on 11 questions that the League has used in global polling since 1964. The findings revealed a high rate of antisemitism among the more than 9,000 individuals polled between April and June 2019. They also revealed that one in four Europeans said they believed in most of the antisemitic beliefs referenced in the poll.17 33. The hate crime statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 2018, the most recent available, showed that 7,120 hate crimes had been reported in the United States of America, of which 1,419 were religious hate crimes (835 of those antisemitic), 4,047 were based on race, ethnicity or ancestry and 1,196 were motivated by sexual orientation.18 The documentation by the Anti-Defamation League of antisemitic and racist incidents and incidents against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States revealed that there had been 2,713 cases in 2019 as compared to 1,214 cases in 2018 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 8 See also Guy Hedgecoe, “Spanish elections: how the far-right Vox party found its footing”, BBC News, 11 November 2019. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, “Antisemitism: overview of data”, pp. 8–9. Ibid., p. 96. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, “Antisemitism: overview of data”, p. 87. See also A/73/305 and Corr.1, para. 22. Community Security Trust, “2019 annual review”, p. 14. Available at https://cst.org.uk/data/file/a/c/Annual%20Review%202019-web.1583750042.pdf. Confidential submissions to the Special Rapporteur. The detailed list of all 18 countries and survey questions can be found at https://global100.adl.org/ about/2019. Anti-Defamation League, “ADL global survey of 18 countries finds hardcore anti-Semitic attitudes remain pervasive”, 21 November 2019. Available at www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-globalsurvey-of-18-countries-finds-hardcore-anti-semitic-attitudes-remain. See www.adl.org/adl-global-100. See https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2018/tables/table-1.xls.