UK hate crime: Warnings of rising intolerance after spike in anti-Semitic crime

Jews are being targeted on social media amid a surge in anti-Semitic hate crimes, according to a new study.

 

There has been an 11% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in the first six months of 2016, according to the Community Security Trust (CST). The charity said it recorded 577 incidents targeting Jews between January and June this year, an increase on the 473 incidents in the same period in 2015.

 

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