Anti-Semitism on the rise in Switzerland's German speaking communities

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ZURICH (EJP)--- New statistics released by a Swiss Jewish organisation have indictated an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country’s German speaking regions.

The Action Group of the Children of the Holocaust (AKDH) said it registered 73 cases of what it considers to have been anti-Semitic incidents between September 2005 and December 2006.

From August 2004 through September 2005 only 32 cases were registered, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung´(NZZ) daily reported.

According to the report, 42 of the incidents which occurred during the past year were of a “tangible nature”, such as those committed against the properties of Jewish institutions and organisations. These included a synagogue in the eastern lakeside city of Biel was vandalised with graffiti.

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