The BBC report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45409151 on the increase in antisemitism in the UK quotes from the latest Community Security Trust (CST) report:
'The CST recorded 727 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK in the first six months of 2018 - the second highest figure recorded in more than two decades.
The highest-ever number was recorded in the first six months of last year (786).
In the whole of 2017 there were 1,414 incidents, compared with 541 in 2008. At the time, this was the third-highest annual figure that had been recorded since the CST began in 1984.'
Omitted from the BBC report are the words of Dave Rich, the head of policy at the Community Security Trust (CST) to the women and equalities select committee yesterday. Mr Rich said: 'Over the last two years we have seen a much closer correlation between events in the Labour Party and our anti-Semitic incidents statistics than any other single factor.'
He further said incidents soared from a few dozen a month to over 100 in spring 2016 - Just when Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party's problems with antisemitism hit the headlines.
It is strange how the institutionally anti Israel, and antisemitic by at least one of the IHRA examples, BBC has omitted Mr Rich's words. One could imagine that the BBC were trying to minimise any reputational damage to Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
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