Anti-Semitic incidents in the UK are at a record high for the third year in a row, reports the Guardian. A count in 2018 by the Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Semitism, showed a 16 per cent increase in incidents on the previous year.
A worthy, terrible story, written up by a newspaper that runs thorough coverage of hate crime figures. But it was illustrated with a photo of protests at the Gaza border, as pointed out by Jewish Chronicle journalist Daniel Sugarman:
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