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Report: Anti-Semitism rises, but violence against Jews falls

News Desk (Associated Press)

Tel Aviv

Sun, April 23, 2017 Published on Apr. 23, 2017 Published on 2017-04-23T17:00:39+07:00

Members of the ancient Samaritan community take part in the ritual of Passover Sacrifice on Mt. Gerizim, overlooking the West Bank town of Nablus, Monday, April 10, 2017. Samaritans descended from the ancient Israelite tribes of Menashe and Efraim but broke away from mainstream Judaism 2,800 years ago. Today, the remaining 700 Samaritans live in the Palestinian city of Nablus in the West Bank and the Israeli seaside town of Holon, south of Tel Aviv. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

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report released by Israeli researchers says violent attacks on Jews dropped for a second straight year in 2016, while other forms of anti-Semitism are on the rise worldwide, particularly on U.S. campuses.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University said Sunday that assaults specifically targeting Jews, vandalism and other violent incidents fell 12 percent last year. They recorded 361 cases compared to 410 in 2015, which had already been the lowest number in a decade.

The report attributed much of the drop to increased security measures in European countries.

The numbers on violence were not mirrored by a decrease in cases of general anti-Semitism. On U.S. university campuses, there was a 45 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents, mostly insults and harassment of Jewish students, the report says.