There was a massive rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain following the Israeli conflict in Gaza despite a four percent fall in incidents in 2008.

Israel's invasion of Gaza this year prompted a huge increase in anti-Semitic attacks and intimidation, Jewish groups have said. The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 609 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2009, more than the total for all of last year.

Anti-Semitic incidents are up. There was a 9% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period last year, a charity has reported. There were 266 incidents up to June, compared with 244 last year, according to the Community Security Trust (CST). Some 166 were incidents of abusive behaviour,

Anti-Semitic attacks in the UK doubled in the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2008, new figures show.

The throwing of the gasoline bombs, the latest in a series of anti-Semitic incidents in France since Israel attacked Gaza, damaged a restaurant next door but caused no injuries.

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A second front to the conflict in the Gaza Strip has opened up in Europe, where a wave of reprisal attacks against Jewish targets is stoking fears of a wider resurgence of anti-Semitism on the continent. Far from simply being a spate of isolated incidents, as many Europeans claim, anti-Semitic violence is becoming more commonplace in every country in Europe. At the same time, anti-Israel demonstra...

This is a guest post by Darren Redstar The opponents of the right of Israel to exist often reply to accusations that they are reviving old anti semitic prejudices by replying that anti zionism is not anti-semitic. Take a look at this picture. The brave anti imperialist warrior with the dreads has the following on his Palestinian

Worldwide, the first four months of 2011 have been exceptionally cool. But there's always l'exception francaise. France has had the hottest, driest spring [March - May] in memory. So carbon dioxide is up in France but down worldwide? Last year the El Nino boosted temperatures. This year La Nina has cooled them. This did not stop some claiming that 2010 would be a record year because of g...

A senior British diplomat has been arrested for an anti-semitic rant (via Sid): The diplomat, 47-year-old Rowan Laxton, allegedly shouted “f***ing Israelis, f***ing Jews” while watching television reports of the Israeli attack on Gaza last month. He is also alleged to have said that Israeli soldiers should be “wiped off the face of the Earth” during