BRUSSELS (JTA) -- Jihadist websites eat up a fair share of Bart Olmer’s workday. He even has passwords to some closed hate forums.

“Reading hate speech is part of the job,” says Olmer, who reports on intelligence services for Holland’s largest circulation daily, De Telegraaf.

It’s an explanation he may need to repeat for security services on future visits to France, if that country's parliament passes legislation aimed at making it illegal to visit hatemongering websites.

THE HAGUE (JTA) -- More than half of the nongovernmental organizations monitoring hate crimes in the European Union have no working definition for what constitutes a hate crime, according to a new survey.

In the face of rising hate crimes in Europe, NGOs are taking greater initiative to fill gaps left by European governments failure to collect and monitor data on hate crimes. Last year, approximately 4,000 hate-based incidents were reported by over 80 NGOs throughout the OSCE region, according to the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.

March 20, 2012 - CEJI deplores the brutal attack and tragic loss of life at the Jewish day school in Toulouse, France. Our profound sympathies go the victims, their families and the Jewish community of Toulouse.

A 20-minute interview on Sefarad, Jewish radio in Madrid, with participants who took part in our Religious Diverisity and Anti-discrimination training course in Madrid in November 2011. The interview was aired in February 2012. Listen to the interview.