The Manchester Evening News reports:
Hate crime against Jewish people has rocketed in Greater Manchester, it has emerged.
There were 244 anti-semitic incidents over the last year – the highest ever recorded and more than in London which has a Jewish population six times the size of Manchester.
A shocking catalogue of attacks has been revealed including:
*A Jewish woman hit by a car in a petrol station forecourt in Prestwich, then spat at and subject to anti-semitic abuse.
*A lit firework thrown from a car at three Jewish school pupils were walking home in Salford.
*A Jewish man targeted as he walked along the pavement in Salford. A man jumped out of a car, knocked the victim’s skullcap off his head and punched him several times, breaking his glasses and giving him a black eye and a small cut to the face.
*Two Jewish girls were approached by two girls, who held cigarette lighters up to them and threatened to ‘burn you like Hitler’.
The list of incidents also includes swastikas being daubed on a kosher butcher, racist phone messages being left at Jewish homes and a swastika and smoke bomb being delivered through a letterbox.
One of the verbal attacks was on a woman out shopping, others were on families walking to the synagogue.
Greater Manchester had the highest number of reports in the country in 2011, up from 201 last year.
The figure has trebled since 2003.
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