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UK Jews Acknowledge Anti-Semitism Spike

<p class&equals;"MsoNormal" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;" align&equals;"center">British Jews are no longer feeling safe in their communities&period; According to the Antisemitism Barometer&comma; 31&percnt; of Jews in the UK are considering leaving due to an increase in anti-Semitic attitude&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The survey conducted by Campaign Against Antisemitism &lpar;CAA&rpar; in partnership with YouGov also revealed that 17&percnt; of British Jews feel unwelcome in the UK and 37&percnt; have concealed their faith in public&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">53&percnt; feel that Crown Prosecution Service &lpar;CPS&rpar; is failing to fight anti-Semitism&comma; with only 39&percnt; feeling confident that anti-Semitic hate crimes will be properly prosecuted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Where so the Jewish survey participants see this hate coming from&quest; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The Labor party&period; 83&percnt; of British Jews believe that this party is too tolerant of anti-Semitism amongst its leaders&comma; members and supporters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;In 2015&comma; Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead Labour after calling Islamic terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas his &ldquo&semi;friends&period;&rdquo&semi; Last year&comma; Corbyn said he regrets those characterizations but Jewish groups in the U&period;K&period; and elsewhere have accused him of whitewashing anti-Semitism and allowing it to grow among the many thousands of supporters who joined Labour in support of his policies&comma;&rdquo&semi; writes <em style&equals;"mso-bidi-font-style&colon; normal&semi;">WND<&sol;em>&period; &ldquo&semi;Last year&comma; former London Mayor Ken Livingstone repeatedly said that Adolf Hitler was a Zionist&period; A week ago&comma; Luke Cresswell&comma; a local Labour candidate wrote online that &ldquo&semi;Moses must be proud&rdquo&semi; of supposed &ldquo&semi;genocide&rdquo&semi; by Israel&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Shami Chakrabarti was directed to investigate the Labor Party&comma; but found no indication of Anti-Semitism within the party&comma; causing Jewish leaders to doubt the investigation&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The CAA is trying to uncover this problem in the UK to the public and government leaders&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">The interviews for the survey were conducted this year and last and 7&comma;156 participated&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">&ldquo&semi;We&rsquo&semi;ve got a very serious situation where on the one hand&comma; British society is very effectively starting to shun anti-Semitism&comma; but the institutions we rely on to protect our communities are not doing enough&comma;&rdquo&semi; said Gideon Falter&comma; CAA Chairman&period; &ldquo&semi;We&rsquo&semi;ve been talking about it for years and years&period; When are they going to wake up&quest;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">There have been 767 anti-Semitic attacks on the Jewish community in the UK so far in 2017&period; This is the highest number recorded for this time period since the figure started being tracked back in 1984&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Only 15 cases of the 105 UK violent anti-Semitic crimes were prosecuted&period; There were 1&comma;078 anti-Semitic crimes in 2016 in the UK&comma; according to the National Anti-Semitic Crime Audit&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal">Muslim migrant communities in Europe&comma; especially in Germany have attributed to the spike in anti-Semitism with the influx of terror attacks on Jewish communities and the recent hateful sermons made about the Jewish faith at Mosques&period; <span style&equals;"mso-spacerun&colon; yes&semi;">&nbsp&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"MsoNormal"><strong>Author&rsquo&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> Muslims are spreading across Europe and to areas where individuals from multiple religions all live&period; The problem is that some of these migrant Muslims&comma; including religious leaders&comma; are taught to hate Jews early on&period; Check out <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;xCQEmeGfFmY">this video<&sol;a> to get more of an understanding&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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