Glastonbury 'spiked race hate reports'

REPORTS of antisemitic incidents in the UK spiked a day after punk duo Bob Vylan’s controversial performance at Glastonbury this year, according to a charity which described how communities are facing “extreme levels of Jew-hatred”.

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Sentiment towards Israel is influencing and driving contemporary anti-Jewish discourse, the Community Security Trust (CST) said. The organisation, which monitors antisemitism in the UK, said there were a total of 1,521 antisemitic incidents across the UK in the first half of this year.