UK Anti-Semitic Incidents Hit Record In 2014: Report

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, a charity said Thursday.

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.

Most of the incidents took place in London and Manchester, the two largest Jewish communities in the country.

The Huffington Post