Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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Well, the first thing to understand is that this number refers only to faith-hate crimes and the number of faith-hate crimes in July following conflict in Gaza.
In that month, and looking only at faith-hate crimes, 95% of them were anti-Semitic, the mayor's office said the police said.
But neither of them can provide us with a breakdown of the number and we just don't think it can add up.
Now, another couple of important points I've picked up along the way...
Over the entire year, there were nearly twice as many Islamophobic hate crimes as anti-Semitic ones.
And when we looked at this story last summer, experts told us that spikes in anti-Semitic behaviour triggered by international events like the Gaza conflict tend to be temporary.
Any crime, a burglary, an assault, criminal damage could be flagged as a hate crime if it appears to have some kind of hateful motivation.
Now, the Community Security Trust tells me that typical anti-Semitic hate crimes are verbal or written abuse and threats to being shouted at in the street, nasty letters and messages on social media.
Thankfully, cases of extreme violence are rare, but incidents of assault and property damage account for about a fifth of cases.
Well, they've all risen over the past year against a background of falling crime.
So, for example, homophobic hate crimes are up more than a third over the past year to almost 1,500.
It's hard to know how much of that is a real trend and how much is down to better reporting.
But anti-Semitic hate crimes do seem to be up very sharply.
They've more than doubled over the past year.
But again, the Gaza conflict will be a big factor here.
They are.
We don't have national figures, although I'm told by people who look into this in great detail that the national trend is similar, about a doubling, and there'll be a report out in a couple of weeks' time which will show that.
This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
Yes, a report from the National Counter-Terrorism Centre published in 2011, and it said that in cases where the religious affiliation of terrorism casualties could be determined, Muslims suffered between 82% and 97% of terrorism-related fatalities over the past five years.
Well, the problem is that qualifier.
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