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Vandals wrecked 100 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Manchester, U.K.
A historic Jewish cemetery in Manchester has been desecrated by vandals who smashed 100 gravestones in a "sickening" act of anti-Semitism.
MPs called for the police to bring the "thugs" to justice after graves were broken, thrown on top of each other and pushed over, in an orchestrated "racist" attack.
The cemetery desecration is the 115th since 1990 and highlights a sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain over the past five years. There were 532 anti-Semitic incidents last year, the highest since records began 20 years ago.
Staff at Rainsough Jewish Cemetery in Prestwich, where Holocaust survivors are believed to be buried, were shocked to find yesterday morning that an entire section of the cemetery had been destroyed.
Again I say such desecration is barbaric and beyond the pale
Posted by Jill Fallon at June 14, 2005 3:13 PM | Permalink