Jenny Tonge, the British lawmaker well-known for her virulent anti-Israel statements, is again blaming Israel for the rise of anti-Semitic incidents in her country, the British Jewish News reports.

Responding to a report which found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain had risen to a record number in 2016, Tonge accused the Community Security Trust (CST), which authored the report, of displaying “a perpetual victim mentality” and of failing to help “real decent Jewish people”.

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