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Source: http://www.amchainitiative.org/alarming-spike-antisemitism-2016-7.26.16-pr
Spike in Campus Anti-Semitism Reported in 2016
(Amcha Initiative) A study released Tuesday which examined anti-Semitic activity from January to June 2016 on more than 100 public and private colleges and universities with the largest Jewish undergraduate populations found that 287 anti-Semitic incidents occurred at 64 schools, a 45% increase from the 198 incidents reported in the first six months of 2015. There were 14 incidents that restricted Jewish students' civil rights by suppressing their speech, blocking their movement or hindering their assembly on 12 campuses, up from 8 such incidents on 7 campuses in the first half of 2015. The first half of 2016 saw an almost three-fold increase in the number of campus incidents that contained expression opposing the existence of Israel.