Report: Anti-Semitic incidents drop for first time since 2000

[Scurrilous]

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"The number of violent Anti-Semitic incidents around the world dropped by 20 percent in 2005 compared to the previous year, according to a report published Monday.

The annual report, compiled by the Stephen Rot Institute for the Study of Contemporary anti-Semitism and Racism at the Tel Aviv University, said that since 2000 there was an increase in anti-Semitic violence every year, and 2005 is the first year in which Anti-Semitic violence dropped.

France and Canada, countries that experienced a large number of attacks over the past few years, registered the most significant drop in violence."

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"The report explains the drop in violence, among others, by the improvement of Israel's image around the world due to the disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the relative calm in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

Another reason the report gives is that Western states have stepped up their fight against anti-Semitism by legislation, education and enforcing the law against anti-Semitic groups."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/708793.html

[shenmue]

1. At least there is some progress

Good to see that.

[tatertop]

2. More proof that terrorism (as defined by bush) is largely fiction

World wide attacks on US citizens and Jews
would be skyrocketing if Qaida cells and the like
saturated the globe as bush claims.
Terrorism is the basis of The Two Minutes Hate:
the broth of hate into which all other contrived
objects of derision are thrown to boil.