Natan Sharansky blamed the New Zealand government for a surge of anti-Semitism in the country. Sharansky, Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, made the charges in Yediot Achronot on Sunday, referring to an attack by vandals on a Jewish cemetery in Wellington last week.
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