Cross posted on Israellycool and Israpundit by Brian of London.
Today the UK’s Community Security Trust (CST) has released it’s annual report charting Jew hatred in the UK (I prefer the term Jew hatred to “antisemitism” which is a euphemistic term at best).
The CST is a private charity in the UK that is largely paid for by charitable donations made almost exclusively by the Jewish community to provide private protection for Jews when they gather at Synagogues, Jewish schools and all manner of Jewish social events. The CST have dedicated young staff who stand outside in all weather watching and waiting. The Jewish community, in very large part, does not rely on the public purse to pay for this. They dip into their own pockets or volunteer their own time to do this job.
The full report is available here: CST Antisemitic Incidents Report 2010. Overall the news is that attacks on Jews are down but that is only because (acording to the geniuses at the CST) Israel didn’t start any major attacks on Palestinians in 2010 and the 2009 figures included a record number of attacks because of Gaza.
The report shows that CST recorded 639 antisemitic incidents across the UK last year, the seond-highest annual total since CST began recording antisemitic incidents in 1984. This is 31% down on 2009, which was to be expected as 2009 saw a record high number of incidents due to antisemitic reactions to the Gaza conflict. However, it is 17% more than the 2008 figure of 546 antisemitic incidents, and continues the decade-long trend of rising antisemitic incident levels.
Obviously slaughtering a few peacefully armed peace protestors on a ship from Turkey didn’t whip the populace up enough to match 2009’s record high.
But what the report makes almost no mention of, what-so-ever, is the religious background of the perpetrators of these Jew hating attacks.
But what we learn is that when Israel is in the news, two things seem to happen. Firstly, it dominates the thinking and actions of anti-Jewish bigots, be they white, Muslim or of whatever origin.
Did you catch that? Yes, right there after white, they do mention the “M” word but hopefully most people won’t notice it OK? But remember here race is not an issue. Only racists think it is: what the report doesn’t go into is the religion of the perpetrator (or social background) so it’s conclusions that whites are responsible for half the attacks are meaningless. The best they give are figures for “Asians” and Arabs:
Bearing in mind all these limitations, a physical description of the perpetrator was provided in 214 of the 639 incidents recorded by CST.4 Of these, 101 were white (47 per cent); 12 were East European (six per cent); 16 were black (seven per cent); 63 were Asian (29 per cent); one was Far Eastern; and 21 were of Arab appearance (10 per cent).
But it does appear that the CST tracks (or at leasts asks victims) the religious background of their attacker or at least they used to because last year, when reporting the same report the BBC let the following slip out:
The CST says half of incidents where the perpetrator is identifiable have been carried out by people described by the victim as either Muslim or Arab – higher than previously recorded.
Nobody really knows how many Muslims there are in the UK but it’s nowhere near 50%, something like 4% is more realistic so what that means is that Muslims are far more likely to hate Jews and act on those feelings than any other segment of the population. Sorry if that upsets a few delicate sensibilities but its the truth and there is no point hiding it.
Just to rub it in: if 4% of Muslims commit 50% of the crimes and 96% commit 50% of the crimes that meansMuslims are 25 times more likely to commit an act of Jew hatred than every other group (yes including whites).
If this isn’t a buried lead, I don’t know what is.
Which is precisely what the CST has done again this year. Islam hates Jews. Mohammed hated Jews because they rejected him and his false prophethood. Mohammed personally took great pleasure in killing Jews. Mohammed is the perfect man whose example all Muslims are encouraged to follow therefore a great many Muslims ….
