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Jewish trust: Anti-Semitic attacks in U.K. soared during Lebanon war
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent

LONDON - The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Great Britain has risen sharply since the start of the Lebanon war, according to an organization dedicated to the safety of Britain's Jewish community.

According to Mark Gardner, spokesman of the Community Security Trust, there were over 90 incidents of anti-Semitism in Britain during July, including attacks on Jewish-owned stores, hate mail sent to representatives of the Jewish community and verbal and physical attacks on Jews in public. Over the past few years, the monthly average has been 10 to 30 such attacks.

The British report is merely the latest in a series of reports documenting an increase in anti-Semitic incidents throughout Europe in the past two months.
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On Thursday, an all-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain will publish a report that is expected to declare anti-Semitism a serious problem and call on the government to fight it. Committee Chair Denis MacShane MP said in Saturday's London Times that the CST's figures
"confirm the evidence given to us that anti-Semitic attacks are a very real problem."

Gardner told The Times that the July incidents "were more dispersed than usual," noting that "it is usually a small number [of people] responsible for a large number of attacks, but these were very widespread across the country and included graffiti attacks on synagogues in Edinburgh and Glasgow."

Hate mail sent to senior Jewish figures blamed them for the deaths of Lebanese children in Beirut, Gardner told The Times.

The public debate in Britain over the Israel Defense Forces' operations in Lebanon during the war was heated. It included mass antiwar demonstrations, political denunciations of Israel's "disproportionate use of force" and attempts to prevent the transfer of American weapons to Israel via Scottish airports.

Last week, Lord Janner was attacked in the House of Lords by fellow peer Lord Bramall during an argument over Israeli actions in Lebanon. "The number of anti-Semitic attacks reflects the mood music around Jews and Israel," Gardner told The Times.

The past two months have brought a steep increase in reported incidents of anti-Semitism around the world. The Australian Jewish Council reported a fivefold increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the country. Synagogues in Italy and Norway have been defaced and vandalized in recent weeks, and a monitoring organization in the Netherlands reported a "steep rise" in the number of anti-Semitic incidents there
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  1.   who wouldn`t Jews after all Israel did in Lebanon and Gaza 22:55  |  Londoner 03/09/06
  2.   Another Jewish Exaggeration 23:51  |  Yonatan Netser 03/09/06
  3.   More information, please! 23:58  |  Yonatan 03/09/06
  4.   what do you expect 00:19  |  sergio 04/09/06
  5.   Not Jewish Trust, but Zionist Trust 00:41  |  Dovy 04/09/06
  6.   TO YONATAN 00:54  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  7.   To Yonatan (2) 00:56  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  8.   Anti Israeli world wide reactions expected 00:59  |  Linda 04/09/06
  9.   get out of eurostan 01:07  |  paul 04/09/06
  10.   to Yonatan Netser 01:13  |  Nabila 04/09/06
  11.   http://jewssansfrontieres.blogspot.com/ 01:20  |  Frank Bekker 04/09/06
  12.   What do they expect with state run TV like BBC 01:25  |  dave 04/09/06
  13.   CALL IT DISGUST 01:33  |  diana 04/09/06
  14.   Not Surprising 01:42  |  Semsem 04/09/06
  15.   # 4 01:54  |  Jesse James 04/09/06
  16.   #5 Eurostan nonsense 02:18  |  Boycott 04/09/06
  17.   English anti-semitism 03:31  |  Nik Miller 04/09/06
  18.   anti-semitic attacks in UK 03:34  |  kenzo 04/09/06
  19.   stamp out anti-semitism 03:42  |  wibism 04/09/06
  20.   No surprise 03:55  |  Stanley 04/09/06
  21.   Anti-Semitism in Europe (meaning anti-arab and jewish) 04:21  |  San 04/09/06
  22.   Propoganda 04:31  |  Seanirl 04/09/06
  23.   British Media 04:41  |  Boris 04/09/06
  24.   nablia idiot 04:43  |  dev 04/09/06
  25.   Yonatan Netser - your response 04:55  |  Mark Lincoln 04/09/06
  26.   # 5 - Old Muslim wool over the eyes 05:01  |  dave 04/09/06
  27.   Why us 05:16  |  Sheldon 04/09/06
  28.   diana 05:23  |  bev 04/09/06
  29.   #11 05:27  |  bev 04/09/06
  30.   wibism 05:33  |  bev 04/09/06
  31.   Revisionism is alive 05:40  |  Larry 04/09/06
  32.   anti-semitism 05:47  |  orin 04/09/06
  33.   British Judeopathy 06:42  |  Patty 04/09/06
  34.   Diana from Philadelphia/ your disgust 06:49  |  Patty 04/09/06
  35.   To Dave # 26 10:54  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  36.   `the hate` will never end...just change faces 10:59  |  Justine 04/09/06
  37.   #13 diana hello hello u got a brain or not? 11:10  |  arthur 04/09/06
  38.   if you need to hate you pick on 11:10  |  calm 04/09/06
  39.   I see, 6 million Jews were massacred because of the occupation & 11:24  |  Judith 04/09/06
  40.   To Jesse James 11:30  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  41.   Londoner #1: Auschwitz and Lebanon 11:30  |  Mancunian 04/09/06
  42.   Nicole: You are too right. I agree 11:32  |  Jewish girl 04/09/06
  43.   Great Britain needs more 7 Julys to understand 11:36  |  Paolo Ortenzi 04/09/06
  44.   Why people hate jews ? 11:37  |  Maximus 04/09/06
  45.   Linda form NYC 11:39  |  Lena 04/09/06
  46.   Muslim skulduggery 11:48  |  Tibor Zakash 04/09/06
  47.   Boycott #16: Equation 11:51  |  Boy George 04/09/06
  48.   TO LINDA 11:53  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  49.   Deport all Pakistani Brits? 11:53  |  FOX 04/09/06
  50.   Nicole 11:54  |  Gina 04/09/06
  51.   To Nicole 12:02  |  Bernard HAFTEL 04/09/06
  52.   To Nicole (2) 12:04  |  BERNARD HAFTEL 04/09/06
  53.   World calling DIANA 12:04  |  Editor: World news 04/09/06
  54.   #44, maximus: roots of anti-Semitism 1 12:05  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/09/06
  55.   to haaretz re #44 maximus 12:08  |  zadok the priest 04/09/06
  56.   LINDA again 12:08  |  Mike 04/09/06
  57.   Lena #45 Virgins for the women 12:09  |  Prof Head 04/09/06
  58.   what i the point of crying and complaining 12:11  |  zadok the priest 04/09/06
  59.   The grapes of wrath 12:14  |  Mushtaba Moeen 04/09/06
  60.   another propaganda stunt 12:14  |  fk 04/09/06
  61.   anti sionisme anti semitism big debate 12:16  |  serge 04/09/06
  62.   For GINA: insulting 12:20  |  Ragnhild 04/09/06
  63.   #44, maximus: roots of anti-Semitism 2 12:21  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/09/06
  64.   Hatred 12:24  |  English Resident 04/09/06
  65.   Jesse James: hotshot! 12:25  |  Mohamad Rosner 04/09/06
  66.   RE:17 12:29  |  Barrie 04/09/06
  67.   Maximus #44 some answers 12:30  |  PROF. HEAD 04/09/06
  68.   To half of the respondents 12:31  |  Chris 04/09/06
  69.   To Cippora JK 12:36  |  Reader 04/09/06
  70.   Machievelli - Lincoln 12:37  |  Chris 04/09/06
  71.   more ground for apocalypse-talk 12:38  |  Efraim 04/09/06
  72.   #44, maximus: roots of anti-Semitism 3 12:39  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/09/06
  73.   RESULT OF THE INCREDIBLE ISRAELI ESTABLISHMENT BLINDNESS!! 12:47  |  Lebanese 04/09/06
  74.   Nicole # 6 13:04  |  ChanahS 04/09/06
  75.   TO GINA 13:04  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  76.   Nabila # 10 13:05  |  ChanahS 04/09/06
  77.   TO BERNARD HAFTEL (2) 13:07  |  Nicole 04/09/06
  78.   re9: out of Eurostan into the frying pan? 13:12  |  Paulo 04/09/06
  79.   To Nicole 13:16  |  Jesse James 04/09/06
  80.   #69, Reader 13:20  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 04/09/06
  81.   Ragnhild 13:22  |  Gina 04/09/06
  82.   Nicole 13:25  |  Gina 04/09/06
  83.   Maximus 13:28  |  Sarah 04/09/06