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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: February 1, 2007 |
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A Jewish group said on Thursday that 2006 had seen a massive increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain.
The Community Security Trust -- a Jewish security group -- said it had recorded 594 incidents in Britain in 2006, an increase of around 30 percent from 2005.
According to the organization, more than one-fifth of the race-hate incidents -- defined as malicious acts toward the Jewish community -- took place during the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon in July and August.
The trust says the figures are the highest number since it began collating anti-Semitic incidents in 1984, and 12 percent higher than the previous record in 2004.
Jewish schools or schoolchildren were targeted in 59 of the incidents, and Jewish cemeteries were desecrated nine times, the group said.
It said the figures continued the trend since 2000 of high numbers of anti-Semitic acts occurring in association with events in Britain and overseas.
"Anti-Semitic hate crime levels have doubled in the last 10 years," trust spokesman Mark Gardner said. "This is unacceptable racism that many Jews had hoped and believed was a thing of the past.
"Today's anti-Semitism is a wave of hatred, intimidation and abuse against British Jews, who are stupidly blamed and randomly attacked over international tensions for which they bear no responsibility." |
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