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Anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise even before shooting

Among the most entrenched, pervasive forms of hatred and bigotry in the US

Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania's Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia in this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo. (Associated Press/file)

Anti-Semitism — Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania's Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia in this Feb. 27, 2017, file photo. (Associated Press/file)

NEW YORK — Swastikas scrawled into Jewish students' notebooks. Headstones toppled and desecrated by vandals at Jewish cemeteries. Jews falsely blamed for challenges facing the nation.

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