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| UK anti-Semitic incidents hit a ‘record high,’ says watchdog group |
| 2019-08-02 |
| [IsraelTimes] Community Security Trust calls for reversing ’tide of hate’ after 892 occurrences against Jews recorded in first six months of 2019, up 10% from same period in 2018. There was a record annual total of 1,688 anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in 2018. "This is the third year in a row that CST has seen an increase in reports of antisemitic incidents," the group’s chief executive David Delew said in a statement. "The problem is spreading across the country and online, it reflects deepening divisions in our society and it is causing increasing anxiety in the Jewish community. It will take people of all communities and backgrounds standing together to turn this tide of hate around." There was a 37 percent increase in violent incidents compared to the same reporting period the previous year, the CST found, recording 85 anti-Semitic assaults during the first six months of 2019, up from 62 the previous year. All told, there were 710 incidents of "abusive behavior, including verbal abuse, anti-Semitic graffiti, antisemitic abuse via social media and one-off cases of hate mail," the CST reported. |
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| #1 Any correlation with a 'record high' of immigrants? |
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