Report: 46% drop in anti-Semitic incidents in 2010

There was a significant drop in the number of Anti-Semitic incidents in 2010 over 2009, according to a study released on Sunday.

The study, entitled "Anti-Semitism Worldwide 2010" cites a 46 percent drop in major incidents of physical violence, threats, and major acts of vandalism, from 1,129 n 2009 to 614 in 2010.

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At the same time, the report says that the second half of 2009 saw an increase in attacks on Jewish sites in Latin America, which it surmises could be linked to the raid on the Gaza flotilla. It says that such activity was "particularly evident" in Chile, home of the world's fourth largest Palestinian Diaspora, and that anti-Semitic allegations rose during the same time in Venezuela, where the report says "anti-Semitic allegations are an integral part of the extreme anti-Israel propaganda of governmental and pro-Chavez circles."

The report says that recent years have seen "the continued strengthening of extreme right and populist parties in Europe", though it concludes that such parties devote their campaigns mainly against Muslims and Roma, and not towards Jews.

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though of course any are too many. And as the report says, the far right are still campaigning viciously against other groups - in the UK it's immigrants most of all!