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[1] Anshel Pfeffer and Asaf Uni, “Anti-Semitic incidents rise in Germany, Australia, U.S. in 2007,” Haaretz, January 27, 2008, http://primage.tau.ac.il/asm/000197956.pdf.

[2] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Antisemitism Worldwide 2007, General Analysis, April 2008, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2007/gen-analysis-07.pdf.

[3] OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Hate Crimes in the OSCE Region: Incidents and Responses – Annual Report for 2006, September 18, 2007, OSCE http://www.osce.org/odihr/item_11_26296.html.

[4] Gert Weisskirchen, Report to the Permanent Council of the OSCE, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism, CIO.GAL/171/07, November 13, 2007, http://www.osce.org/documents/pc/2007/11/28073_en.pdf.

[5] U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, “Taking Stock: Combating Antisemitism in the OSCE Region,” Briefing, January 29, 2008, http://www.csce.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=ContentRecords.ViewDetail&ContentRecord_id=409&ContentType=H,B&ContentRecordType=H&CFID=929232&CFTOKEN=70697758.

[6] The Council of Europe, “Combating anti-Semitism in Europe,” Parliamentary Assembly, Resolution 1563 (2007), http://www.assembly.coe.int/Mainf.asp?link=/Documents/AdoptedText/ta07/ERES1563.htm.

[7] European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Annual Report, 2008, TK-AG-08-001-EN-C, http://fra.europa.eu/fra/material/pub/ar08/ar08_en.pdf, pp. 34-35.

[8] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Jew violently assaulted in Manchester,” July 23, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/24096/Britain-_Jew_violently_assaulted_in_Manchester.

[9] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Assault of a Jewish man in Garges-les-Gonesses,” September 6, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/26540/France%E2%80%93_Assault_of_a_Jewish_man_in_Garges-les-Gonesses.

[10] Chicago Action Yad L’yad, “Where in the world is Lida,” Tekiah, January 2008, http://www.chicagoaction.org/Currentll.pdf.

[11] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Two Jews harassed on a bus in Berlin,” December 12, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/26825/Germany_%E2%80%93_Two_Jews_harassed_on_a_bus_in_Berlin.

[12] The Anti-Defamation League, “Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2007,” http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/anti-semitism_global_incidents_2007.asp.

[13] “German authorities charge 22-year-old man with stabbing rabbi,” Haaretz, January 31, 2008, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/950056.html.

[14] Deborah Garcia, “Rabbi Beaten With Bat In Possible Bias Attack,” CBS, October 10, 2007 http://wcbstv.com/local/lakewood.rabbi.attacked.2.341832.html.

[15] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Habad Representative Attacked in Sebastopol,” September 29, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/25128/Ukraine%E2%80%93_Habad_Representative_Attacked_in_Sebastopol.

[16] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “A Jewish Pupil Attacked,” October 9, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/25251/France_%E2%80%93_A_Jewish_Pupil_Attacked.

[17] Associated Press, “Berlin Mayor Condemns Attack on Jewish High-School Students,” the Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2008, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572478642&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull.

[18] Interfax, “Jewish children attacked in Moscow region,” Interfax-Religion, February 19, 2007, http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=2621.

[19] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “A Threatening Phone Call to a Jewish School in Montreal,” February 2, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/22921/Canada%E2%80%93_A_Threatening_Phone_Call_to_a_Jewish_School_in_Montreal.

[20] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Threats to Jewish Schools in Montreal,” February 6, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/22922/Canada%E2%80%93_Threats_to_Jewish_Schools_in_Montreal.

[21] Oliver Bradley, “Smoke bomb thrown into Jewish kindergarten in Berlin,” European Jewish Press, February 26, 2007, http://www.ejpress.org/article/14511.

[22] Associated Press and Haaretz Service, “ADL commends N.Y. police for arrests in anti-Semitic subway attack,” Haaretz, December 12, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933597.html.

[23] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 8.

[24] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Paint thrown at Jews in Ilford,” June 9, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23306/Britain-_paint_thrown_at_Jews_in_Ilford.

[25] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Violent incident in Essex,” April 3, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23800/Britain-Violent_incident_in_Essex.

[26] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Mother and son assaulted on bus in London,” January 30, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/20855/Britain_%E2%80%93_Mother_and_son_assaulted_on_bus_in_London.

[27] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “7 teens charged with drive-by bias crimes,” Asbury Park Press, June 19, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/22877/USA_-_7_teens_charged_with_drive-by_bias_crimes.

[28] Human Rights First, Companion Survey on Antisemitism, September 2007, /wp-content/uploads/pdf/07601-discrim-hc-antisemitsm-web.pdf.

[29] Devorah Lauter, “With baseball caps and discretion, French Jews hide their Jewishness,”JTA, May 20, 2008, http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/2008021220080205kippas.html.

[30] Piotr Łukasz, “Polish rabbi attacked in a train,” European Jewish Press, October 28, 2007, http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/eastern_europe/21256.

[31] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Antisemitic Graffiti in Murmansk,” June 13, 2006, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/22862/Russia_%E2%80%93_Antisemitic_Graffiti_in_Murmansk.

[32] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 9.

[33] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Excrement smeared on door in London,” April 1, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23791/Britain-_Excrement_smeared_on_door_in_London.

[34] “Antwerp synagogue vandalized,” JTA, December 6, 2007, http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105737.html.

[35] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “A synagogue was vandalized,” January 22, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/20576/Denmark_%E2%80%93_A_synagogue_was_vandalized.

[36] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “A Stone Tossed at a Synagogue in Daugavpils,” February 2, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23569/Latvia%E2%80%93_A_Stone_Tossed_at_a_Synagogue_in_Daugavpils.

[37] Associated Press, “Geneva synagogue damaged by fire,” the International Herald Tribune, May 24, 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/24/europe/swiss.php.

[38] Tanjug News Agency, “Vandals deface Novi Sad synagogue,” B92, March 20, 2007, http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2007&mm=03&dd=19&nav_id=40228.

[39] Michael Freund, “Vandals deface Holocaust memorial in Armenia,” the Jerusalem Post, December 23, 2007, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1196847408736&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull.

[40] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Desecration of a Memorial in Minsk,” February 28, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23565/Belarus%E2%80%93_Desecration_of_a_Memorial_in_Minsk.

[41] “Jewish tombstones knocked down in Belarus,” JTA, June 29, 2007, http://jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102763.html’,595,700).

[42] Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, “Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Belarus,” the Bigotry Monitor, vol. 7, no. 25, July 6, 2007, http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/101707Belarus.shtml.

[43] “Czech Memorial to Jewish victims of death march vandalized,” European Jewish Press, February 6, 2007, http://www.ejpress.org/article/13822.

[44] DPA News, Anti-Semitic slogans sprayed on Hungarian Holocaust memorial, Haaretz, September 27, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/907681.html.

[45] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Desecration of a Memorial Tree in Arezzo,” January 25, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/21837/Italy%E2%80%93_Desecration_of_a_Memorial_Tree_in_Arezzo.

[46] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Desecration of a Jewish Cemetery in Chisinau,” April 23, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/21894/Moldova_%E2%80%93_Desecration_of_a_Jewish_Cemetery_in_Chisinau_%28Kishinev%29.

[47] Agence France-Presse, Jewish cemetery desecrated in Poland, European Jewish Press, August 06, 2007, http://www.ejpress.org/article/18974.

[48] The Anti-Defamation League, “Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2007,” http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/anti-semitism_global_incidents_2007.asp.

[49] Attila Somfalvi, “Jewish cemetery in Bucharest desecrated,” Israel News, February 13, 2007, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3364863,00.html.

[50] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Antisemitism Worldwide 2007, General Analysis, April 2008, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2007/gen-analysis-07.pdf.

[51] Petar Kostadinov, “Hand of Bulgaria’s Law,” the Sofia Echo, August 27, 2007, http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/hand-of-the-law/id_24553/catid_5.

[52] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 2.

[53] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 2.

[54] S. Pouzet, “Séquestration et torture pour un jeune homme à Bagneux,” 20Minutes.fr, May 13, 2008, http://www.20minutes.fr/article/217067/France-Sequestration-et-torture-pour-un-jeune-homme-a-Bagneux.php.

[55] Cécilia Gabizon, “Cukierman: ‘L’antisémitisme a touché un public nouveau,’” le Figaro, January 23, 2007, http://www.lefigaro.fr/france/20070123.FIG000000018_cukierman_l_antisemitisme_a_touche_un_public_nouveau.html.

[56] Thomas Prouteau, “Un jeune d’origine juive séquestré et agressé à Bagneux,” RTL.fr, March 05, 2008, http://www.rtl.fr/fiche/60774/un-jeune-d-origine-juive-sequestre-et-agresse-a-bagneux.html.

[57] Le Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive, Rapport sur l’Antisémitisme en France, 2007, February 2008, http://www.jean-jaures.org/NL/299/Rapport_Antisemitisme_2007.pdf, p. 9.

[58] Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH), La lutte contre le racisme et la xénophobie: rapport d’activité 2007, March 28, 2008, http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/084000167/index.shtml.

[59] Bundesministerium des Innern, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2007, May 15, 2008, http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2007.pdf.

[60] Sylvia Westall, “Germany’s Merkel attacks ‘middle-class anti-Semitism,’” Reuters, January 25, 2008, http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-31598120080125.

[61] Jaap Van Donselaar and Willem Wagenaar, Racial violence and violence incited by the extreme right in 2006, Racism and Extremism Monitor, Anne Frank House and the University of Leiden, August 27, 2007, http://www.annefrank.org/upload/Downloads/RacialViolence2006.pdf.

[62] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 17.

[63] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Netherlands 2006, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2006/netherland.htm.

[64] Centre Information and Documentation on Israel, Anti-Semitism 2006—January though May 2007, Summary, http://www.cidi.nl/dossiers/an/rapporten/report2006.pdf.

[65] Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, “Antisemitic Rally in Kiev,” the Bigotry Monitor, vol. 4, no. 40, November 12, 2007, http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/111204Bigotry.shtml.

[66] Antisemetisme.be, Rapport sur l’antisémitisme en Belgique pour l’année 2007, February 14, 2008, http://www.antisemitisme.be/site/event_detail.asp?eventId=676&catId=36&language=FR.

[67] Antisemetisme.be, Croix gammées et voitures endommagées à Niel, November 11, 2007, http://www.antisemitisme.be/site/event_detail.asp?eventId=624&catId=30&language=FR.

[68] Ruth Klein and Anita Bloomberg, 2007 Audit of Antisemitsic Incidents: Patterns of Prejudice in Canada, League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, 2008, http://www.bnaibrith.ca/publications/audit2007/audit2007.pdf, p. 2.

[69] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Antisemitism Worldwide 2007, General Analysis, April 2008, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2007/gen-analysis-07.pdf.

[70] Mia Dauvergne, Katie Scrim and Shannon Brennan, Hate Crime in Canada 2006, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics Profile Series, 2006, http://www.statcan.ca/english/research/85F0033MIE/85F0033MIE2008017.pdf.

[71] Human Rights First correspondence with a senior analyst at the Policing Services Program, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada, August 18, 2008.

[72] Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH), La lutte contre le racisme et la xénophobie: rapport d’activité 2007, March 28, 2008, http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/084000167/index.shtml.

[73] Le Service de Protection de la Communauté Juive, Rapport sur l’Antisémitisme en France, 2007, February 2008, http://www.jean-jaures.org/NL/299/Rapport_Antisemitisme_2007.pdf.

[74] Commission nationale consultative des droits de l’homme (CNCDH), La lutte contre le racisme et la xénophobie: rapport d’activité 2007, March 28, 2008, http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/rapports-publics/084000167/index.shtml.

[75] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Antisemitism Worldwide 2007, General Analysis, April 2008, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2007/gen-analysis-07.pdf.

[76] Sylvia Westall, “Germany’s Merkel attacks ‘middle-class anti-Semitism,’” Reuters, January 25, 2008, http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-31598120080125.

[77] Bundesministerium des Innern, Verfassungsschutzbericht 2007, May 15, 2008, http://www.verfassungsschutz.de/download/SHOW/vsbericht_2007.pdf.

[78] The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Netherlands 2006, http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2006/netherland.htm.

[79] Centre Information and Documentation on Israel, Anti-Semitism 2006—January though May 2007, Summary, http://www.cidi.nl/dossiers/an/rapporten/report2006.pdf.

[80] Chaan Liphshiz, “Jewish group says anti-Semitic incidents in Holland up by 64 percent,” Haaretz, November 17, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924989.html.

[81] Marija Davidović and Peter R. Rodrigues, Monitor racisme & extremisme: opsporing en vervolging in 2006, Racism and Extremism Monitor, Anne Frank House and the University of Leiden, December 12, 2007, http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?PID=817&LID=2.

[82] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Violent Incidents at the Jewish Museum in Oslo,” August 2, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/23835/Norway%E2%80%93_Violent_Incidents_at_the_Jewish_Museum_in_Oslo.

[83] Human Rights First, Hate Crime Report Card, Country-by-Country: Norway, September 2007, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/discrimination/hate-crime/country/count_a.asp.

[84] Galina Kozhevnikova, Radical Nationalism and Efforts to Counteract it in 2007, the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis, March 14, 2008, http://xeno.sova-center.ru/6BA2468/6BB4208/AC15D1E.

[85] The Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism, “Antisemitic and racist violence in St. Petersburg,” December 5, 2007, http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/26576/Russia_-_Antisemitic_and_racist_violence_in_St._Petersburg.

[86] The Anti-Defamation League, “Global Anti-Semitism: Selected Incidents Around the World in 2007,” http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/anti-semitism_global_incidents_2007.asp.

[87] Vyacheslav Likhachev, Ksenofobiya v Ukraine: Materialy Monitoringa 2007-2008, Kyiv, May 2008, p. 18.

[88] Nickolai Butkevich, “Jew-Hatred Is on The Rise in the Land of Pogroms,” Forward, October 17, 2007, http://www.forward.com/articles/11836/.

[89] Nickolai Butkevich, “Jew-Hatred Is on The Rise in the Land of Pogroms,” Forward, October 17, 2007, http://www.forward.com/articles/11836/.

[90] “V Zhitomire snova izbili evreev,” Zhitomyr City Journal, August 8, 2007, http://zhzh.info/news/2007-08-08-1547.

[91] Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, “New Incident in Zhitomir; Chief Rabbi Publicly Complains,” the Bigotry Monitor, vol. 7, no. 32, August 24, 2007, http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/082407BM.shtml.

[92] Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, “Antisemitic and Racist Violence in Ukraine and the Russian Federation,” 2007, http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/012708KirkSummary.pdf.

[93] Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, “Yushenko Asks for Measures to Stop Vandalism,” the Bigotry Monitor, vol. 7, no. 15, April 13, 2007, http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/041307BM.shtml.

[94] Anshel Pfeffer, “Ukraine President defends posthumous honor to alleged head of pogrom,” Haaretz, November 15, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/924553.html.

[95] The Community Security Trust, Antisemitic Incidents Report 2007, 2008, http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/Incidents_Report_07.pdf.

[96] Leon Symons and Yaakov Wise, “Last year ‘the second worst’ for hate crime,” the Jewish Chronicle, February 2, 2008, http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?AId=58085&ATypeId=1&search=true2&srchstr=antisemitism&srchtxt=1&srchhead=1&srchauthor=1&srchsandp=1&scsrch=0.

[97] The Parliamentary Committee Against Antisemitism, Report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism: Government Response, March 29, 2007, http://www.thepcaa.org/responses.html.

[98] The Anti-Defamation League, “Anti-Semitic Incidents Decline For Third Straight Year In U.S., According To Annual ADL Audit,” Press Release, March 19, 2008, http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ASUS_12/5246_12.htm.

[99] U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports, http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm.