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Members of the Jewish community demonstrate to pay tribute to the Toulouse shooting victims. Photo by Franck Prevel/Getty Images
Days after a lone gunman murdered a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, a new study reports widespread anti-Semitism in France and across Europe.
The survey, completed in January and released Tuesday by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League, finds that 24 percent of the French population holds anti-Semitic views, up from 20 percent in 2009.
When asked if violence against Jews is rooted in anti-Jewish or anti-Israel sentiment, four in 10 Europeans (39 percent) responded that it was the result of anti-Jewish sentiment.
In France, 45 percent of those asked held this view, up from 39 percent in the previous survey.