Anti-Semitic assaults rose dramatically in the United States last year, and the overall number of hateful incidents targeting Jews increased by 3 percent, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report.

Report: Anti-Semitic Assaults On Rise in U.S.

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Anti-Semitic assaults rose dramatically in the United States last year, and the overall number of hateful incidents targeting Jews increased by 3 percent, the Anti-Defamation League said in a report.

Colleges in particular have become a place where Jews are particularly exposed to harassment, with anti-Semitic incidents at university campuses accounting for 10 percent of occurrences nationwide, the league said.

The 56 anti-Semitic assaults nationwide in 2015 represented an increase of more than 50 percent from the year before, according to the ADL.

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