{"id":23446,"date":"2019-03-12T18:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23446"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T18:11:04","slug":"cardiffs-jewish-community-face-increasing-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiffs-jewish-community-face-increasing-hostility\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff&#039;s Jewish community face increasing hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A Jewish cemetery\u00a0in Cardiff has upped security due to a rise in antisemitic\u00a0vandalism.<\/b><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Chair of the South Wales Jewish Representative Council, Lawrence Khan, says antisemitism is a growing problem in Cardiff.<br \/>\nThe grave of Mr Khan&#8217;s uncle has been vandalised and he says it&#8217;s shocked the Jewish community.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23465\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lawrence-1-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23465\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/lawrence-1-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Mr Khan spoke to CJS News about the problem.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s just one of those things that you see on the television, but it&#8217;s never happened in Cardiff before. At least not to this extent.<br \/>\n&#8220;It got a bit personal and the community was really upset.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe says the Jewish cemetery in Ely has had to increase its security, including CCTV and padlocks, to keep-out the general public after vandals broke-in multiple times.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23463\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/file-5-1-525x394.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-23463\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/file-5-1-525x394.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/noscript><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>A padlock on the gate of the privately-run Jewish cemetery in Ely.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\nReported incidents of antisemitic abuse have almost doubled in Wales since 2017, according to the Jewish charity, Community Security Trust.<br \/>\nConservative Councillor for Rhiwbina, Jayne Cowan, is one such victim.<br \/>\nCllr Cowan is of Jewish heritage and told CJS News, &#8220;There were a number of swastikas drawn on my Assembly boards.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe says abuse was also targeted at her parents, &#8220;it looks like the abuse was orchestrated.<br \/>\n&#8220;The punishment for people inciting racial hatred needs to be very, very severe.&#8221;<br \/>\nCJS News has contacted South Wales Police for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Jewish cemetery\u00a0in Cardiff has upped security due to a rise in antisemitic\u00a0vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[105,21,530,168,531,34],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-antisemitism","tag-cardiff","tag-jewish","tag-politics-2","tag-religion","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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