LONDON (AP) — A British charity says the number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain hit a record high last year, with reactions to the conflict in Israel and Gaza last summer the biggest factor accounting for the jump.
The Community Security Trust said it recorded 1,168 incidents across the country in 2014 — more than double the 535 cases documented in 2013, and the highest yearly total since the group began monitoring anti-Semitism in Britain in 1984.
Mark Gardner, a spokesman for the charity, said last month that it received an unprecedented number of calls from Jewish people fearing a Paris-style terror attack in Britain.
Concerns about anti-Semitism in Europe have risen after a kosher supermarket was targeted in France’s deadliest attacks in decades. Four Jewish people were among the 17 people killed last month by the three gunmen, who also died.
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