Can you spot the connection?

1) The Jewish Community Support Trust reports that it recorded 639 antisemitic incidents across the UK last year, the second-highest annual total since the 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.

Most incidents appeared to be random or opportunistic, said the charity, and a quarter referred to the Nazis or the Holocaust. Others related to the Middle East conflict.


2) The BBC is presenting a Louis Theroux programme entitled 'My time among the 'ultra-Zionists' a show that Louis Theroux previews thus:

'Yair's beliefs are shared by a hardcore religious nationalist fringe of Jewish Israelis who have chosen to make their home up and down the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. They say that those areas belong by right to the Jewish people - a title claim based mainly on the bible.

The fact that there are nearly ten times as many Arabs as there are Jews in the West Bank, with their own dreams of a national homeland, they regard as a side-issue.

I was making a documentary about these ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers, called The Ultra-Zionists. For several weeks I'd been spending time in some of the most hardcore and uncompromising sections of the Israeli nationalist community - the Jewish enclave in Hebron, in the hilltops in the north of the West Bank, and in the crowded Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem - choosing to come at a time when peace talks were ongoing and the extreme settlers were therefore more embattled.'

But this is the key extract:

'For many years I'd been fascinated by extreme nationalists - and I'd hoped the issue of the West Bank and its settlement by extreme religious Jews would be a chance to understand this mindset at first hand.'

So if Louis Theroux is so 'fascinated' by 'extreme nationalists', will he be producing a programme for the BBC on extreme Islamist groups any time soon or would the BBC worry that such a program might incite an anti-Muslim backlash in the UK? The BBC always seem to worry about provoking an anti-Muslim backlash, one that never seems to happen, but less concerned about provoking anti-Semitism in the UK which does happen.