(JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Switzerland dropped to 25 last year from 36 in 2011.
The figures were reported in the annual analysis on anti-Semitism by the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities.
The report states that unlike the previous year, no physical attacks against Jews were recorded in Switzerland in 2012 and that hostilities in Israel did not serve as “trigger events,” as has been observed in previous years.
Most incidents last year were hate mail cases or graffiti, the report said. Online content was not included in the report.
Monitor reports showed a 58 percent increase in anti-Semitic incidents in France in 2012 and a 30 percent increase in Belgium, which watchdog groups said were linked to a wave of attacks that followed the slaying of four Jews at a school in Toulouse, France, by a radical Muslim.
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