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Jun. 6, 2007 21:49
Study: Anti-Jewish hate crimes in Europe on the rise
By HAVIV RETTIG
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Anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions throughout Europe once again rose to "historic levels" in the past two years, according to a study released Wednesday at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting in Bucharest.
Combining data from governments, NGOs and media reports, the new survey, conducted by US-based Human Rights First, found that the number of hate crimes generally has increased dramatically since the 1990s while European governments have been "burying their heads in the sand for more than a decade," according to HRF president Michael Posner.
The HRF discovered particularly worrying figures in the UK. Anti-Semitic attacks against individual Jews (as opposed to Jewish property) rose by 37% in 2006