A record number of anti-Semitic incidents have been recorded in the UK during the first half of 2017 as monitors warned of “unprecedented” reports of attacks, abuse and harassment.
The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 80 violent assaults targeting Jews in the first six months of this year, as well as verbal abuse, graffiti, vandalism, hate mail and abuse via social media and the internet.
A total of 767 incidents were reported between January and June – a rise of almost a third on the same period in 2016 and the highest since the CST’s records began in 1984.