Ruth Alexander
speaker
4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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23,800.
And divide this by 25.
Do you know, I think you're right.
That's incredible.
The celebrity's cursed by Strictly Come Dancing's spotlight.
More or Less was presented by Tim Harford of the Financial Times.
The producer was Ruth Alexander.
You can download many more Radio 4 programmes at the Radio 4 website, bbc.co.uk slash radio4.
Well, let's look at the UK first and let's start with incidents such as violence, threats, graffiti or online abuse.
In Britain, the Jewish organisation, the Community Security Trust, monitors this sort of thing.
And it says, to give you an idea, it received about 240 reports of anti-Semitic incidents in July in the middle of the conflict.
And that's five times what they'd normally expect to see in that month.
We do.
The last major Israeli offensive in Gaza was in 2009, and looking at the UK and other European countries, you can see a short-term spike in anti-Semitic incidents after that.
It is more encouraging.
2013 had the lowest annual number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain since 2005.
During the past decade, the levels have fluctuated, making it difficult to identify a single trend.
The number of incidents had steadily declined from a peak in 2009 to the end of 2013, but it is still a little higher than it was 10 years ago.
Well, the European Union's Fundamental Rights Agency, or FRA, publishes a report every year which summarises data from governments and other organisations on anti-Semitic incidents.
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