Anti-Semitic Incidents Rise Sharply In 2009, Study Says

April 12, 2010

Author: Izzy Lemberg

Source: CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/12/anti.semitic.study/index.html?hpt=T2

The number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world more than doubled from 2008 to 2009, according to a Tel Aviv University study.

In 2009, 1,129 such incidents were recorded -- an increase of more than 100 percent from the 559 incidents noted in 2008, according to the study, released Sunday by the university's Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism.

"In addition, many more hundreds of threats, insults, graffiti signs and slogans and demonstrations featuring virulently anti-Semitic content were registered, sometimes resulting in violence," the study said.