Jerusalem ( CNN ) -- Anti-Semitic incidents worldwide dropped sharply in 2010 from their peak in 2009 , according to an annual report issued by an Israeli university on the eve of the nation 's Holocaust Memorial Day . However , the levels are significantly higher than they were a decade ago , when the upward trend began , according to the report from Tel Aviv University 's Steven Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism and the Kantor Center for the Study of European Jewry . `` The important question that must be asked today is : Have we learned the lessons of the Holocaust in the world ? And to our great regret , the answer is no , '' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting . `` A renewed anti-Semitism is spreading . Various forces are joining together and flooding the world with anti-Semitism . The hatred of Jews and the denial of their existence have turned into hatred of the Jewish state and denial of its existence . '' According to the report , major incidents of physical violence , direct threats and major acts of vandalism fell by 46 percent , from 1,129 in 2009 to 614 in 2010 . Although it represents a decrease , researchers pointed out the figure of 614 is the third-highest reported since worldwide statistics began to be monitored in the late 1980s . The 2009 peak was attributed to the Israeli incursion into Gaza in early 2009 , which the authors said sparked violence against Jews . `` Since Jews and Israelis are often conflated into a single collective , events in the Middle East often provoke anti-Jewish groups and individuals into perpetrating hostile activities against local Jews . '' In 2010 , the largest number of violent incidents took place in the United Kingdom , France and Canada . The three nations saw 60 % of all worldwide incidents , the report said . The report also expressed concern over `` countless anti-Semitic diatribes , speeches , press articles and especially the electronic posts in almost every possible form on the internet ... the central themes were the Jewish - Zionist world power and conspiracy , the demonization and the delegitimization of Israel mainly by comparing it to Nazi Germany and labeling it an apartheid state . '' Holocaust Memorial Day begins at sundown on Sunday . It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw , Poland , ghetto uprising , which began April 19 , 1943 , when German troops and police attempted to deport its surviving inhabitants . Jews held out against the Germans for 27 days . About 300 Germans and 7,000 Jews were killed in the violence . The memorial day is also observed in the United States . Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation 's annual commemoration of the Holocaust , according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . The 2011 remembrance week is May 1-8 .
An Israeli university issues the report . The 2010 level is still the third-highest seen . Comment: