The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League rights group says U.S. police appear to have foiled the latest in a series of anti-Semitic plots in the country by arresting seven men in North Carolina last week. The men are accused of planning terrorism in Israel and elsewhere.
Jewish communities in the United States, Europe and Latin America experienced a surge in verbal and physical attacks and threats earlier this year, fueled by anger over an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
International experts say many acts of anti-Israel protest crossed the line into anti-Semitism, making early 2009 one of the most violent and widespread anti-Semitic periods in recent years.
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