Government to publish figures on antisemitic hate crime for first time

The Government will reportedly publish stand-alone figures on anti-Jewish hate crime for the first time, in a move which is likely to rekindle the antisemitism row in the Labour Party.

The Community Security Trust (CST) reported that there were 727 antisemitic incidents between January and June this year.

Although it represented an eight per cent drop on the January-June figure from the previous year, it was the second-highest total recorded the first half of any year.

The communal organisation also said that 34 incidents included references to the Labour Party’s ongoing antisemitism crisis, which “attracted significant media and political attention from late March into April 2018.