Factors including the Labour party antisemitism row and terrorist attacks in Europe have led to a rise in antisemitic incidents in the UK by more than a third, according to a report.
The data released by the Community Security Trust (CST), which helps protect Jewish communities in Britain and monitors antisemitism, recorded 1,309 incidents of anti-Jewish hate last year, compared with 960 in 2015 - a rise of 36%.
From the number of recorded incidents in 2016, 1,006 were of abusive behaviour including graffiti, verbal abuse and posts on social media.
Social media had become “an essential tool for coordinated campaigns of antisemitic harassment, abuse and threats directed at Jewish politicians, student activists and other individuals, perpetrated by transnational networks of online antisemitic activists, some of whom are involved in extremist politics,” the CST said.
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