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THE COMMUNITY SECURITY TRUSTAntisemitic Incidents Report 2004

FRONT AND BACK COVER: Antisemitic graffiti daubed on a building in Leeds, March 2004

Copyright © 2005 The Community Security Trust

Executive summary 4

Introduction 5

Antisemitic incidents in 2004 6

Geographical breakdown 13

Incidents figures by category 13

Incidents figures by month 14

Antisemitic Incidents Report 2004 / 3

Contents

ABOVE: Damaged prayer book caused by arson at a London

synagogue, 17 June 2004

This document is for restricted circulationonly and is not for public distribution. The text and illustrations may only be reproduced with prior permission of theCommunity Security Trust.

532 antisemitic incidents were recorded bythe Community Security Trust (CST) in 2004- the highest annual total since recordsbegan in 1984. This represents a 42 percent rise on the 2003 total of 375 incidents.

The total annual figure of 532 incidents is 31 per cent higher than the previousrecord, which was 405 incidents recordedin 2000.

There were a record number of violentantisemitic Assaults - 83 in 2004, comparedto 54 in 2003, a rise of 54 per cent. This isthe third year in succession that the numberof antisemitic assaults has increased, andincludes four cases of Extreme Violence, in which the victim's life was endangered.

For the first time in five years, assaults onpeople outnumbered incidents of damageto Jewish property.

There were record highs in the categoriesof antisemitic Threats - 93 in 2004, a rise of 323 per cent - and Abusive Behaviour - 272 incidents, a rise of 29 per cent.

100 incidents were recorded in March2004, the second-highest monthly totalever recorded by the CST. The totals forJune, April and September were also,respectively, the third, fourth and fifth-highest monthly totals ever recorded.

124 incidents showed clear anti-Zionistor anti-Israel motivation, while 84incidents showed far right motivation.

In 162 incidents the targets weresynagogue premises, their staff andcongregants, many on their way to or from prayers.

17 synagogues and five Jewish cemeterieswere desecrated in 2004.

In 28 antisemitic incidents the victimswere Jewish schools and schoolchildren.

In 21 incidents the targets were Jewishstudents and academics.

In 29 incidents public figures from the Jewish community, includingpoliticians, communal leaders andjournalists, were targeted.

In 79 cases the victims were Jewishorganisations, including representativebodies, cultural organisations, youthmovements and museums.

In 54 incidents the targets were Jewishpeople in their homes. This included abusefrom neighbours, threatening or abusivehate-mail or phone calls and damage to personal property.

110 incidents were opportunistic attacks,both physical and verbal, on Jewishindividuals, male and female, going abouttheir daily lives in public.

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Executive summary

BELOW: Damaged prayer books caused by an arson attack

at a London synagogue, 17 June 2004

The Community Security TrustThe CST advises and represents the Jewishcommunity on matters of antisemitism,terrorism and security. The CST receivedcharitable status in 1994 and is recognisedby Government and Police as a model of aminority community security organisation.

The CST provides security advice and trainingto Jewish schools, synagogues and communalorganisations and gives assistance to thosebodies that are affected by antisemitism. The CST also assists individual members of theJewish community who have been affected byantisemitism and antisemitic incidents. All thiswork is provided at no charge.

An essential part of the CST's work involvesrepresenting the Jewish community to Police,legislative and policy-making bodies andproviding people inside and outside theJewish community with information tocombat antisemitism.

Reporting of incidentsThe CST classifies as an antisemitic incident any malicious act aimed at the Jewishcommunity. This can take several forms,including physical attacks on Jewish people or property, verbal or written abuse, threatsagainst Jews or antisemitic leaflets andposters. The CST does not include the generalactivities of antisemitic organisations such asal-Muhajiroun or Combat 18.

Antisemitic incidents are reported to the CST in a number of ways, most commonly by telephone, e-mail or post. Incidents can be reported by the victim or by someoneacting on their behalf. In 2001 the CST wasgiven Third Party Reporting status by thePolice, which allows it to report antisemiticincidents to the Police and to act as a go-between for victims who are unable or unwilling to report to the Police directly.

The CST works closely with Police servicesand Community Safety Units in monitoringand investigating antisemitic incidents.

It is unlikely that all antisemitic incidents are reported to the CST and therefore it isthought that the actual number of incidentsmay be somewhat higher than the recordedtotal. No adjustments have been made to thefigures to account for this. It is likely thatnon-reporting also varies from category tocategory. For instance, while most antisemiticassaults are probably reported to the CST, it is likely that the vast majority of of verbalabuse cases are not. All reports areinvestigated thoroughly before being includedin the CST's incident statistics.

The CST takes the wishes of victims, whether individuals or the leaders of Jewishorganisations or communal buildings, veryseriously. In particular, the CST treats the issue of victim confidentiality as a toppriority. If the victim chooses to remainanonymous, or for there to be no publicityaround an incident, the CST will observetheir wishes whenever possible.


Introduction

ABOVE: Damaged menorah and prayer shawl caused by an

arson attack at a London synagogue, 17 June 2004

Antisemitic incidents in the UK rose sharplyto a record high in 2004, in a clear signthat the Jewish community faces a growingthreat on Britain's streets. The CSTrecorded 532 incidents in 2004, a 42 per cent rise on the 2003 total of 375incidents. This is the highest annual totalsince the CST started recording antisemiticincidents in 1984. It is 31 per cent higherthan the previous record figure of 405,recorded in 2000, and continues a trend of rising levels of antisemitic incidentssince 1997, when a low of 219 incidentswere recorded. In addition, the monthlytotals for March, June, April and September 2004 were, respectively, the second, third,fourth and fifth-highest monthly totals everrecorded by the CST.

The CST classifies antisemitic incidents intosix distinct categories: Extreme Violence;Assault; Damage and Desecration ofProperty; Threats; Abusive Behaviour; and Antisemitic Literature. The definitions of these categories, and the incidents thatfall into each one, are given below. Inaddition, and not included in the antisemiticincident figures, the CST collects andanalyses incidents of Information Collectionthat target the Jewish community, andSuspicious Behaviour and Criminal activity at Jewish locations.

Extreme ViolenceThis includes any attack potentially causingloss of life. There were four such incidents in 2004, compared to none in 2003:

A Jewish teenagers’ jaw was shattered inthree places by a gang in Southamptonwho subjected him to a tirade ofantisemitic abuse. The leader of the gangwas jailed for four years for the attack.Police found a collection of racist and farright material in his home.

A Jewish woman was violently attacked bythree of her neighbours, who accused herof being Israeli when they noticed thatsome of her post was written in Hebrew.She was severely beaten.

A strictly Orthodox man was walking homefrom synagogue when he was attacked byfour youths who broke a bottle over his head,leaving him with a suspected fractured skull.

A Jewish man was stabbed in his home byan assailant who shouted "I'm going to killyou, you fucking yid" as he attacked him.

AssaultThis includes any physical attack against aperson, which is not life-threatening.

The CST recorded 79 incidents of Assault in2004. By combining this with the number ofincidents of Extreme Violence - four - we cansee the full spectrum of physical attacks onJews. This gives a total of 83 antisemiticassaults, compared to 54 for the combinedcategories in 2003 - a rise of 54 per cent.This total of 83 assaults is the highest everrecorded by the CST, and is the third year in succession that the number of violentantisemitic assaults has increased.

There is no obvious single cause for thisdramatic rise, apart from a general growth in violent antisemitism. The majority ofassaults were opportunistic attacks onpeople who are visibly Jewish, usually due to their religious or traditional clothing.Several attacks were on congregants ontheir way to or from synagogue, while 12were on Jewish schoolchildren. Seven of the victims required hospital treatment. Few of the assaults involved any overtpolitical references, either to Israel or to farright beliefs. Around a third of the assaults -28 in total - took place in Manchester,


Antisemitic incidents in 2004

27 of them in the north of the city, whilethere were 43 assaults in Greater London.

Assults that took place in 2004 included:

A series of attacks on strictly OrthodoxJews in Stamford Hill, London, leaving oneman with a broken nose.

A visibly Jewish man walking down astreet in Manchester was attacked frombehind, punched and had CS gas sprayedin his face.

A Jewish schoolboy on a bus in northLondon was attacked by a middle-agedman who called him a Jew and kicked him repeatedly.

A gang of youths attacked a 12-year-oldJewish boy who was wearing a kippah.Doctors spent 90 minutes stitching up cuts to the boy's face after the attack.

Damage and Desecration of PropertyThis category includes any physical attackdirected against Jewish property, which is not life-threatening. It includes the daubing of antisemitic slogans or symbols (such asswastikas) on Jewish property, or damagecaused to Jewish property, where it appearsthat the building has been specificallytargeted because of its Jewish connection.

There were 53 incidents of Damage andDesecration in 2004, a fall of 26 per centfrom the 2003 figure of 72 incidents. This isthe only category in which there has been adecrease in the number of cases, and it isnot clear why it has bucked the 2004 trendof rising incident levels. The desecration ofJewish buildings, and synagogues inparticular, has been a feature of the wave ofantisemitic incidents occurring in Britain sincethe start of the second Palestinian Intifada atthe end of September 2000. During thisperiod there have been over 100 synagoguedesecrations in the UK. As a consequence,

many Jewish buildings have introducedimproved security measures, which mayexplain the fall in incidents of this type.

Damage and Desecration cases in 2004included:

An arson attack at a synagogue in northLondon. The fire caused extensivedamage, including to some prayer booksthat had been rescued from the Nazis.

An, arson attack at a synagogue in northwest London. The fire was kindled usingtwo Torah scrolls that were ripped up bythe perpetrator.

60 gravestones were pushed over orsmashed at a Jewish cemetery inBirmingham. National Front stickers werefound at the location. One man wascharged with the attack.

Swastikas and SS insignia were daubed on gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Aldershot. The desecrated headstonesincluded one for a Jewish soldier who diedin 1941.

A London travel agency that specialises in tours to Israel had "Dirty Jew Cunts up the PLO" daubed on its premises. When this graffiti was cleaned off, thesame perpetrators wrote "fuckin (sic) Jewshit" with a swastika the following day.

A Jewish student stall at the EuropeanSocial Forum was vandalised. Theperpetrators left behind leaflets fromPalestinian and Islamist organisations.

ThreatsThis category includes only direct threats,whether verbal or written.

There were 93 antisemitic Threats recorded in 2004, a rise of 323 per cent on the 2003total of 22. This increase was fuelled partly


by the activities of one man, Riaz MohammedBurahee, who was convicted of making 28 threatening and abusive phone calls tosynagogues in London; several additionalcharges were left on the court file. However,even without Burahee's activities, the numberof incidents in this category would still bemore than double the 2003 total. Of the 93cases recorded, 11 involved bomb threats.

Incidents in this category included:

Letters sent to several synagogues inLondon that read: "By almighty Allah youshall not escape Muslim justice with 1000assassins ready to strike in places thatyou gather […] You shall gather and weshall strike. Praise be to Allah." Part of theletter reproduced text from a speech byOsama bin Laden.

Jewish butcher shops in London received a letter from an organisation calling itselfProtection and Welfare of Animals (PWA),which claimed to have their staff undersurveillance and threatened to force theshops to close by the end of the month.

A Jewish family received a weddinginvitation that had been opened anddefaced with antisemitic graffiti while inthe postal system. This included a drawingof planes flying into the World TradeCentre, with the text: "Fucking JewishMurderers - its gona be ur houses nextwith ur familys in them (sic)".

Abusive BehaviourThis category includes all types of antisemiticabuse, including verbal and written. Theverbal abuse can be face-to-face or viatelephone or answer-phone messages. Thecategory also includes antisemitic e-mails andtext messages, as well as targeted antisemiticletters (those aimed at and sent to a specificindividual), irrespective of whether or not therecipient is Jewish. This is distinct from amass mailing of antisemitic literature, whichis dealt with by the separate Literaturecategory. Antisemitic graffiti on non-Jewishproperty is also included in this category.

There were 272 incidents of AbusiveBehaviour reported to the CST in 2004, a 29 per cent rise on the 2003 total of 211 incidents. It is the highest total in thiscategory since records began. AbusiveBehaviour, encompassing the full range oflow-level, often spontaneous, antisemiticabuse, is usually taken as an indicator of thegeneral level of antisemitism in society. It isimportant to consider that reporting rates forthis category may have improved as theJewish community has become more awareof the need to report antisemitic incidents,although the true number of AbusiveBehaviour cases is still likely to be muchhigher than the 272 reported to the CST.However, the rise in the number of AbusiveBehaviour incidents in recent years is inkeeping with the overall rise in incidentlevels, suggesting that any improvement inreporting rates has not distorted the overallpicture. Such a distortion is even less likelygiven the record number of antisemiticassaults, and taken together they are


ABOVE: Antisemitic graffiti daubed on a Jewish shop in

London, 13 February 2004

evidence of an increasing amount of hostilityto Jewish people on the streets of Britain.

Incidents of Abusive Behaviour in 2004 included:

A synagogue received a snuffboxcontaining excrement in the post.

A Jewish organisation in London receivedan e-mail that read: "Shalom MotherFucker. You are true back stabbers. Whenu (sic) were persecuted all throughoutEurope […] it was the ottoman empirethat gave you help […] and you do this tous […] fuck u (sic) Jews."

Anti-Israel demonstrators at LiverpoolUniversity made antisemitic remarks toJewish students, calling them "Nazis" and"bleeding Jews".

A pro-Israel organisation in Manchesterreceived a letter that read: "I have beenlistening, on 5 live, to what you are doingto the people of Gaza […] You are nothuman or animal, you are the spawn ofthe devil. How right Hitler was!"

A Jewish organisation in London receivedhate mail bearing swastikas and titled"The Holocaust. A Jew Lie".

A poster bearing the image of 'Star of David = Swastika' was placed on a tree outside a synagogue on Kol Nidre,the beginning of Yom Kippur, the holiestday in the Jewish calendar.

The words "Happy Kristallnacht, Combat18" and "Jews Out" were painted on adoctor's surgery on the anniversary ofKristallnacht. The perpetrators mistakenlythought that a Jewish doctor worked atthe premises.

The words "Hitler was right, Israelis bombbabies" were etched into the wall of aLondon Underground train.

LiteratureThis category covers the distribution ofantisemitic literature, which includes literaturethat is antisemitic in itself, irrespective ofwhether or not the recipient is Jewish, orcases where Jews are clearly the targets ofthe distribution, even if the material itself isnot antisemitic. This would include, forinstance, the mass mailing of British NationalParty literature to Jewish homes, even if theliterature did not mention Jews. The literaturemust be part of a mass distribution ratherthan individual mailings, which come underthe category of Abusive Behaviour.

There were 31 Literature incidents in 2004,compared to 16 in 2003 - a rise of 94 percent. This rise follows a sharp decline in thenumber of Literature incidents - from 54 in1999 to 16 incidents in 2003. This type ofincident was, in the past, traditionallyperpetrated by far right activists such asLady Jane Birdwood and her circle, whodesigned and circulated many differentexamples of antisemitic literature in the early and mid-1990s. The fall in the numberof incidents in this category came afterdetermined Police action, a series ofprosecutions and the death of Lady Birdwoodherself. The sudden rise in Literatureincidents in 2004, therefore, is a cause forconcern, and reflects a new source for thiscategory of incident: of the 31 incidentsreported to the CST, 16 appeared to bemotivated by anti-Zionist or radical Islamistsentiments, while only 8 were based in farright ideology or prejudices. Another change,reflecting the growth in electronic communi-cations, is that many incidents are nowperpetrated by e-mail. Of the 141 cases of hate mail - falling into the categories ofThreats, Abusive Behaviour and Literature - a total of 63, or 45 per cent, weretransmitted via e-mail.

It should be noted that the statistics forthe category of Literature give no indication of the extent of distribution. Mass mailings


of antisemitic literature are only counted as oneincident, although some antisemitic leafletshave been circulated to hundreds and possiblythousands of Jewish and non-Jewish individualsand organisations. Thus the number ofincidents reflects the number of perpetrators,rather than the number of victims.

Examples of Literature incidents in 2004included:

An anonymous letter that read: "Justbecause objections or actions are directedat Jews does not necessarily mean this isAnti Semitism (sic) […] Some one said,'the World pays a heavy price for theJews', perhaps they are right."

A Holocaust denial magazine called Talesof the Holohoax was distributed by a farright organisation based in Hull.

A card produced by an anti-Zionist organi-sation, bearing a drawing of thecrucifixion, was sent to various membersof the Jewish community. On one card, thesender wrote: "You Zionists have beenkilling Palestinians for a long time fromthe Holocaust you have learnedLebensraum and Blitzkreig. You aretoday's herrenvolk. No wonderantisemitism is increasing which youencourage in order to justify Zionism."

The Middle East factorAntisemitic incident levels have risen steadilysince the start of the second PalestinianIntifada in October 2000. The 2004 total of532 incidents is more than double that of1999 - the last year before the Intifada brokeout. As overall incident levels have risen, sohas the proportion of incidents that arerooted in hatred for Israel and Zionism,rather than incidents that originate in theracial prejudice commonly associated withthe far right. Of the 532 incidents, 124showed clear anti-Zionist motivation,compared to 84 that were motivated by farright sentiments or ideology. There were 114incidents involved specific reference to Israelor the Middle East; in 23 incidents "Zionism"or "Zionist" were invoked as terms of abusewhile 21 involved mention of the Iraq war.

The number of antisemitic incidentsperpetrated in Britain fluctuates in response toevents in the Middle East. This was illustratedmost dramatically in March 2004, when therewere 100 incidents recorded by the CST - thesecond-highest monthly total on record. Theseincidents were largely a response to theassassination by Israel of Sheikh AhmedYassin, the leader of Hamas. In the 48 hoursfollowing Sheikh Yassin's assassination on 22March, the CST recorded 54 antisemiticincidents - more than has ever previouslyoccurred in the entire month of March. Whilemost of these incidents were threatening andabusive phone-calls made by one man - RiazMohammed Burahee - to various Londonsynagogues, he was not the only one toexpress his support for Hamas by attackingBritain's Jewish community. Even withoutincluding Burahee's phone-calls, March wouldstill have seen the second-highest monthlytotal at that time. Burahee has since beenconvicted of making 28 threatening andabusive phone calls (several other chargeswere left on the court file). Burahee admittedthat he was motivated by his hostility towardsJewish people. It is significant that Buraheedid not make a single call to the Israel


ABOVE: Smashed gravestone, Middlesborough, 22 June 2004

Embassy, or any other Israeli institution in theUK, but only to synagogues. Interestingly, theassassination of Sheikh Yassin's successor,Abdel-Aziz Rantisi, in April, was not followedby a similar spike in incidents.

Monthly peaksFour of the five highest monthly totals everrecorded by the CST were in 2004. The totals forthe months of March, June, April and Septemberwere, respectively, the second, third, fourth andfifth-highest monthly totals: 100 incidents inMarch, 64 in June, 62 in April and 60 inSeptember. The reasons for monthly spikes inincident levels can differ widely. As describedabove, the peak of 100 incidents in March was areaction to events in the Middle East, as someBritish-based supporters of the Palestinianschose to express their opposition to Israel byattacking British Jews. This overspill of interna-tional conflicts onto British shores is not always ashort-term reaction to a specific event, however;sometimes it reflects a more general ideologicalhostility to Jews. The total of 62 incidents inApril, for instance, was reached partly becauseof a set of threatening letters, quoting from aspeech by Osama bin Laden, which was sentseparately to 17 different synagogues.

There is not always a clear reason formonthly peaks of this kind, however. The 64 incidents in June were spread uniformlyacross the month, with no clear spike at anypoint, and no obvious cause for the generalrise in the number of incidents. The monthdid contain a relatively high number of violentantisemitic attacks - 18, of which two wereExtreme Violence - as well as two seriousarson attacks on London synagogues thatreceived widespread publicity. In somemonths, a high number of incidents is notcaused by anything more than a surfeit ofpotential victims. Of the 60 incidents in themonth of September, 28 took place on thefestivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur andSuccot, when large numbers of Jewish peopleare on the streets making their way to andfrom synagogue.

VictimsThe victims of antisemitic incidents representthe whole spectrum of the Jewishcommunity, from strictly Orthodox to Liberal,Reform and secular Jews; from the largestJewish communities of London andManchester to smaller communities all overthe United Kingdom; and from Jewish school-children to Members of Parliament.

In 2004, synagogue property, staff andcongregants - many on their way to or fromprayers - were the targets of 162 incidents,and five Jewish cemeteries were desecrated.Jewish schools and their pupils were thevictims of 28 incidents, while there were 21incidents against Jewish students andacademics, mostly on campus. In 79 incidentsthe victims were Jewish communal organi-sations, including representative bodies,youth movements, museums and culturalorganisations. There were 29 incidents thattargeted communal leaders, politicians,journalists or other high-profile individuals.


ABOVE: Swastika graffiti on a Jewish soldier’s grave,

Aldershot, 17 November 2004

In 107 incidents, the victims were ordinary Jewishpeople, male or female, attacked at random whilegoing about their daily lives in public. For the firsttime in five years, assaults on people outnumberedincidents of damage to Jewish property.

The CST: Incident responseThe CST not only records and analyses antisemiticincidents, it also offers support and advice tovictims, while helping Police and other authoritiesto investigate incidents after they have happened.The CST is often the first point of contact forvictims of antisemitic incidents, who aresometimes traumatised by their experience andworried about further attacks. With this in mind,the CST provides immediate reassurance, supportand security advice to victims, whether they arelarge Jewish organisations or individuals at home.The CST also works closely with other Jewishorganisations that can provide professionalcounselling to victims, as a complement to theCST's security advice.

In the case of Riaz Burahee's abusive phonecalls, the CST acted as a Third Party Reportertaking full statements from all the synagoguesthat were victims of Burahee's threats, andensuring that the Police had all the evidencethey needed to prosecute Burahee. The CSTmaintained regular contact with all the victims,giving them reassurance and updates abouthow the case was proceeding.

Amongst the most disturbing incidents in 2004were the two serious arson attacks onsynagogues in London that, though unrelated,occurred within the space of two days in June. Inboth cases, CST staff attended the scene to helpthe local community liaise with the Police andfire brigade. In the days following the incidents,the CST arranged for communal leaders, localpoliticians and the media to visit the locations.As one of the arson attacks happened on aFriday night, the CST arranged for a nearbysynagogue to provide space for the temporarilydisplaced congregation, and CST personnelstayed on site the next morning to directcongregants away from the damaged premises.

Information Collection & SuspiciousBehaviourOne of the most important jobs the CST doesis to record and analyse incidents ofInformation Collection and SuspiciousBehaviour around Jewish locations. It is wellknown that terrorist groups often collectinformation about their targets beforelaunching an attack, and preventing this kindof information gathering is an integral part ofthe CST's work in protecting the communityfrom the threat of terrorism. However, theseincidents are not included in the antisemiticincident statistics, as the motivation formany of them is not possible to determine.

The vague and uncertain nature of many ofthese incidents means that they are easier toanalyse if the two categories are combined,rather than treated separately. Taken together,there were 207 such incidents reported to theCST in 2004, a rise of 46 per cent on the 2003total of 142 incidents. The 2003 figure was itselfa rise of 67 per cent from the previous year.This continued rise is probably a result ofgreater awareness within the Jewish communityof the need to look out for this kind of activity,and report it to the CST and the Police.

Of the 207 incidents of Information Collectionand Suspicious Behaviour reported to the CST,46 involved the photography or videoing ofJewish buildings, while in 37 cases suspiciouspeople tried to gain entry to Jewish premises.While most of the 207 incidents will almostcertainly have innocent explanations, neitherthe CST nor the Police underestimate thethreat posed to Jewish communities by al-Qaeda and other terrorist organisations.Terrorist attacks in the past three years onJewish targets in Turkey, Morocco and Tunisia,and foiled plots in Germany and Belgium, areevidence enough of the nature of the threat toDiaspora Jewry. Preventing this kind ofinformation gathering and surveillance ofcommunity buildings or potential terroristtargets is an important part of reducing thepossibility of future terrorist attacks.



Category 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 20041. Extreme Violence 1 4 0 0 2 1 5 0 42. Assault 13 19 17 33 51 40 42 54 793. Damage and Desecration of Property 31 58 31 25 73 90 55 72 534. Threats 42 19 16 31 39 37 18 22 935. Abusive Behaviour 115 86 136 127 196 122 216 211 2726. Literature 26 33 36 54 44 20 14 16 31TOTAL 228 219 236 270 405 310 350 375 532

Annual Incidents Figures by Category 1996-2004

Incidents Figures by Category 2004

1% Extreme Violence

6% Literature10% Damage & Desecration

17% Threats

51% Abusive Behaviour

15% Assault

EnglandGreater London 311Greater Manchester 94Hertfordshire 24South East 23North West 19Liverpool 10Birmingham 8North East 7Leeds 4South West 4Midlands 2

Scotland 3Channel Islands 2Wales 1

Unknown 20

'Unknown' relates to those incidents thattook place on the internet, or where notenough information is known about thegeographical location of the incident.

Geographical Breakdown of Antisemitic Incidents in the UK, 2004


1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004January 16 7 14 26 37 16 15 23 20February 12 24 16 19 19 14 11 24 28March 26 25 20 18 25 20 26 48 100April 44 10 23 34 35 33 47 29 62May 24 20 22 29 29 32 47 27 39June 23 20 38 21 24 30 26 34 64July 14 20 18 20 29 28 31 30 48August 11 15 18 18 16 20 15 20 29September 16 28 14 25 23 50 47 22 60October 17 19 20 23 105 48 45 57 29November 20 13 11 24 42 14 28 36 29December 5 18 22 13 21 5 12 25 24TOTAL 228 219 236 270 405 310 350 375 532

Monthly Incidents Figures January 1996 - December 2004

Category Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Totals

1. Extreme Violence 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 42. Assault 4 6 5 6 7 16 7 4 9 3 5 7 793. Damage & Desec’n 5 6 5 5 6 5 2 4 5 6 4 0 534. Threats 1 1 52 17 0 6 5 3 5 1 1 1 935. Abusive Behaviour 10 13 35 28 19 30 28 18 41 19 16 15 2726. Literature 0 1 2 6 7 5 6 0 0 0 3 1 31TOTAL 20 28 100 62 39 64 48 29 60 29 29 24 532

Annual Incidents Figures by Month 2004

ABOVE: Graffiti daubed on gravestones in Aldershot, November 2004

RIGHT: Graffiti, London, 3 September 2004

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