BOSTON (AP) — The Anti-Defamation League says anti-Semitic incidents have increased in New England.
The New York civil rights group that’s focused on anti- Jewish attacks said in a report Thursday there have been 132 incidents recorded in the region from Jan. 1 through Sept. 30.
The organization says that’s a 32 percent increase over the same period last year and it exceeds last year’s total.
Most of the reported incidents, 117 of the 132, happened in Massachusetts.
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