Separate figures released today show there was a 53% increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust (CST) in the first half of this year compared to the same period of last year.
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By The Huffington Post | July 30, 2015
Crimes included assault, harassment, arson and criminal damage.
The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes reported to police has soared in parts of the UK, police figures reveal.
A number of the largest forces in the country are recording rising numbers of offenses against Jewish people and property, data obtained by the Press Association shows.
In London the total more than doubled in a year, while there were also increases in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, West Midlands and West Yorkshire.
Crimes included assault, harassment, arson and criminal damage.
Separate figures released today show there was a 53% increase in the number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust (CST) in the first half of this year compared to the same period of last year.
The CST, a charity that monitors anti-Semitism, recorded 473 incidents from January to June including 44 violent assaults, 35 instances of damage and desecration of Jewish property and 88 cases of abuse or threats on social media.
The findings come at a time of heightened alert among Jewish communities after terrorist attacks in Europe.
A Kosher supermarket was targeted in the Paris atrocities in January and the following month a Jewish man was killed near the main synagogue in Copenhagen.
The CST said its analysis suggests the main explanation for the rise is a greater willingness to report incidents.
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