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Record Number of Anti-Semitic Incidents in Britain in 2019
(Scotsman-UK) A record number of anti-Semitic incidents - 892 - were recorded in the UK in the first half of 2019, a 10% increase on the 810 incidents for the same period in 2018, the Community Security Trust (CST) reported. Incidents included anti-Semitic graffiti left at the home of Holocaust survivors, "Gas the Jews" written on a footbridge in Liverpool, and 85 assaults, including punches, kicking or objects being thrown. Two-thirds of the incidents took place in Greater London and Greater Manchester. CST chief executive David Delew said: "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."