{"id":32700,"date":"2019-02-15T16:43:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=32700"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:43:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:43:29","slug":"forced-to-worship-in-private-the-jewish-experience-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/02\/15\/forced-to-worship-in-private-the-jewish-experience-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Welsh Jews made invisible by anti-semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"

WALES has the highest rate of anti-Semitic online activity in the UK, according to a charity that tracks such behaviour.
\nIn 2018, more people googled the phrase “kill Jews” in Wales than anywhere else in the UK.
\nAccording to the Community Security Trust, Wales\u2019s rate of online anti-Semitic activity is 7.2 per cent higher than the national average.
\nThe CST also reported a 16 per cent increase in offline anti-Semitic incidents across the UK between 2017 and 2018.
\n\u201cIn Wales itself, I think that the number of incidents reported to the CST might be the tip of the iceberg,\u201d Stanley Soffa, the Deputy for Cardiff Reform Synagogue, told The Cardiffian.<\/em>
\nThe rate of offline incidents in Wales is similar to the rate in London.
\nWhile there were just 10 incidents of anti-Semitism in Wales in 2018, there are only 2,064 Jewish people living in the country.
\nThis makes the rate of anti-Semitic incidents in Wales one for every 200 people.
\nBy comparison, 950 incidents were reported in London in the same period, among 148,602 Jewish people, making the rate 1.3 incidents for every 200 people.
\nAccording to a survey conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2018, only 21 per cent of British Jews would feel comfortable reporting an anti-Semitic incident to the police or a charity.
\nThis makes it possible that the number of incidents in the UK and Wales is higher than reported.
\nMr Soffa added: \u201cThere is this attitude in both the Jewish and the Muslim community that the police don\u2019t pay attention to these things. Whether that is right or not is for others to judge.
\n\u201cA lot of things that people say, I think they say out of ignorance.
\n\u201cIn Wales, that partially might be due to the fact that there aren\u2019t a lot of Jewish people in Wales so you can live in towns and villages in Wales and never meet a Jewish person,\u201d
\nSouth Wales has the lowest rate of anti-Semitic incidents in Wales, with 0.6 out of every 200 Jewish people reporting an incident.
\nBy comparison, the area covered by Dyfed-Powys police had a rate of 2 out of every 200.
\nGwent had a rate of 2.3 incidents for every 200 Jewish people
\nOmri Hochfield, 17, a Israeli student studying at UWC Atlantic College in Llantwit, spoke to The Cardiffian<\/em> about his experience being Jewish in Wales.
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