Anti-Jewish Sentiment ‘Becoming More Common in Britain’

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Anti-Jewish sentiment is generally becoming more commonplace in Britain, a charity that provides security advice to the country’s Jewish communities said on Thursday.

The Community Security Trust said better recording and publicity around alleged anti-Jewish sentiment in the opposition Labour Party was partly to blame for a record number of antisemitic incidents in Britain last year but also warned it reflected a general rise in antisemitism.

“Hatred is rising and Jewish people are suffering as a result,” said David Delew, chief executive of the CST, which helps protect Britain’s estimated 270,000 Jews.

“It appears that the factors that led to a general, sustained high level of antisemitic incidents in 2016 have continued throughout much of 2017.”

There were 1,382 antisemitic incidents nationwide in 2017, a 3 percent increase from the year before which had been the previous highest annual number recorded by the CST since it began its monitoring program in 1984.

There was a 34-percent rise in the number of violent antisemitic assaults to 145, but most incidents related to verbal abuse of Jews in public who were identifiable from their religious clothing, school uniform or jewelry.

The CST said a fall in the number of incidents involving social media might have reflected a better response by tech firms to tackle online hate speech along with action by police to deal with prolific offenders.

While it said victims were more aware of the need to record incidents, it added it was likely there was still significant under-reporting and that the real level of antisemitism was much higher.

“We have the support of government and police but prosecutions need to be more visible and frequent; while too many others act in ways that encourage antisemites and isolate Jews,” Delew said.

Previous spikes in antisemitism have been blamed on incidents and conflicts involving Israel. However, the CST said there was nothing to explain the rise seen in the last two years, indicating anti-Jewish sentiment was generally becoming more commonplace.

The charity said an increase in hate crime following the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and controversies surrounding Labour might have emboldened offenders.

Labour has often been accused of having a problem with antisemitism within its ranks, particularly since socialist Jeremy Corbyn became leader in 2015, and Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has said the party had failed to show it was sufficiently serious about tackling the problem.

“The findings of this report are extremely concerning, and emphasize just how important it is that we all make a conscious effort to call out and confront antisemitism,” said Andrew Gwynne, Labour’s spokesman on Communities.

 by Reuters and Algemeiner Staff

 

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5 COMMENTS

  1. Star identity. Europe and leading England. Good vice, good clams and good war.

    The jew in the middle? Mostly many left or were…

    Freedom is tight. Arms in Britain tighter. They will hold none.

    The war of today is all yiddishkeit. There is no yireh the opposite.

    Hand away.

  2. To be a little contrarian, Can We absolve ourselves totally???
    Whenever societies
    ,whether ethnic/national/multi national ,lose their traditional Values(Have the yidden in Britain done absolutely anything..?)they’ll either become numb and decline forever
    OR they hold on/ retain their spirit
    through anti semitism combined with hatred of some Others

    So it has been And so it Will be….

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