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The second conclusion is that anti-Zionism, which is rampant in the west, the rise of right-wing extremist parties (each having its own wider agenda), the economic crisis that started already in 2008 – these factors cannot explain the present level of anti-Semitism, the report stipulates. No large scale military conflict occurred between Israel and the Arabs in 2013, or an attack such as the one on the Toulouse Jewish school in March 2012 that generated a wave of more violence.
The report’s conclusion on the tidal wave of anti-Semitism is that the present anti-Semitic phenomenon is not dependent on external events. “In short, what we witness in 2013 is classic ‘net anti-Semitism’ per se,” says the report.
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