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CST report shows marked drop in U.K. anti-Semitism in 2011
Community Security Trust attributes decrease in anti-Semitic incidents partially to lack of 'trigger' events to spark anti-Semitic sentiments in first half of 2011.
By Elka Looks
Community Security Trust released a report last week on anti-Semitism in the U.K., noting a marked decrease in British anti-Semitic incidents for the first half of 2011.
CST is a British organization that is dedicated to collecting, analyzing, responding to and publishing statistics related to anti-Semitic figures, working to provide physical security, training and advice for the protection of British Jews.
A woman passes by a Jewish memorial , desecrated with Nazi symbols, at a cemetery in Dortmund, Germany, Jan. 10, 2005.
Photo by: AP
The drop may be partially due to the lack of what CST calls significant 'trigger' events during the first half of 2011 that could have potentially caused spikes in anti-Semitism, the report said. In 2010, however, the Gaza flotilla raid in which Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish citizens served as a trigger incident, according to the report, bringing with it heightened anti-Semitism.The British organization recorded 283 anti-Semitic incidents across the U.K. between January and June of 2011. This is 13-percent decrease from the first six months of 2010, in which there were 325 anti-Semitic incidents recorded.
The CST report only includes anti-Israel incidents in which "anti-Semitic language or imagery" is used and is directed specifically at Jews.
The ethnicity of the perpetrators of anti-Semitic incidents varied, and was often not available, but of those reported, 48 were described as white, 32 as Asian, eight as Arab, six as black, two as Eastern European and none as Far Eastern.
CST recorded 98 acts of anti-Semitism in Greater London, and 121 in Greater Manchester. The British organization listed the remainder of the incidents in 29 other locations throughout the U.K.
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