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Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK went down last year, evidently thanks to Covid restrictions. The Community Security Trust (CST) reported a decrease of eight percent from 2019.
It said: âThe landscape of anti-Semitism in the UK and the decrease in reported incidents have been strongly influenced by the Covid pandemicâ since fewer people were on the streets, in school, or in shul.
The highest monthly totals were in January, February, June, and July which, it states, âcorrelate neatly with the periods when lockdown measures were either no-yet-existent (pre-March) or more relaxed (in the case of the latter two).â
British Jews and their allies rally against antisemitism in London’s Parliament Square, December 8, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Police in London are investigating a disturbing incident involving crosses that were painted on Jewish homes in a substance that appeared to have been blood.
A number of houses on a street in Stamford Hill a district of North London with a large Orthodox Jewish population were marked with a single cross daubed alongside the mezuzot on the doorframes.
Pictures of the vandalism were circulated online by the Shomrim, a Jewish community defense group.
The group called the vandalism a “hate crime” and “antisemitism” and claimed the perpetrator “appears to have used blood.”