Anti-Semitic Incidents in UK Reached All-Time High in 2016: Report
A troubling and perhaps unsurprising report from a British anti-Semitism watchdog, released Thursday, shows that 1,309 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in 2016, an all-time high since Community Security Trust began recording and compiling these reports, in 1984. The “all-time high” number comes into further focus when learning that CST reports “it is likely that there is significant under-reporting of anti-Semitic incidents to both CTS and the Police.” Over 75 percent of all reported incidents took place in either Greater London or Manchester.
In fact, from May through December—an 8-month span—over 100 incidents were reported in each of those months. This is a level of consistency that in other years was not seen: In 2009 and 2014, for example, conflicts in Israel and Gaza—what CST calls “trigger events”—caused “identifiable spikes” in anti-Semitic incidents. In 2016, however, this did not occur, yet anti-Semitic incidents still occurred at an all-time clip. The watchdog hypothesizes that this may be due to the “cumulative effect of a series of relatively lengthy events and factors that, taken together, created an atmosphere” that sustained these hateful occurrences, such as
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