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Anti-Semitic Incidents in Austria Rise Again, NGO says

A record number of anti-Semitic incidents, ranging from verbal and online threats to assaults, were recorded in Austria last year, a nongovernmental organization said in a report published Thursday. The number of cases rose slightly in 2016 to 477 from 465 the previous year, when the figure had jumped by roughly 200, the Forum Against Anti-Semitism said. The report followed a finding by Austria's BVT domestic intelligence service a year ago that incidents involving xenophobia,...

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