Report: Anti-Semitic incidents surge in 2012

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  • FILE - In this Monday, March 19, 2012 file photo, police officers gather at the site of a shooting where a gunman opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a city in Toulouse, southwestern France. Israeli researchers and Jewish leaders on Sunday reported 30 percent jump in anti-Semitic violence and vandalism last year, topped by a deadly school shooting in France, and expressed alarm about the rise of neo-Nazi parties in Hungary, Greece and other countries. (AP Photo/Bruno Martin, File)

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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli researchers and Jewish leaders on Sunday reported a 30 percent jump in anti-Semitic violence and vandalism last year, topped by a deadly school shooting in France, and expressed alarm about the rise of far-right parties in Hungary, Greece and other countries.

Following a two-year decline in the figures, the annual report on worldwide anti-Semitic incidents recorded 686 attacks in 34 countries, ranging from physical violence to vandalism of synagogues and cemeteries, compared to 526 in 2011. The report was issued at Tel Aviv University, in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, an umbrella group representing Jewish communities across Europe.

The report linked the March 2012 shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, where an extremist Muslim gunman killed four, to a series of copycat attacks, particularly in France, where physical assaults on Jews almost doubled.

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2 Replies to “Report: Anti-Semitic incidents surge in 2012”

  1. In the Twentieth Century there was a massive increase in antisemitism before both world wars, it is looking like the Twenty First Century is going to be the same.

  2. Quote: , and expressed alarm about the rise of far-right parties in Hungary, Greece and other countries

    Typical Jewish liberal blindness. It is not the Right but Muslim responsible for modern anti-semitism in France, Netherlands and elsewhere.