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Anti-semitism is on the rise here and abroad. But the BBC's anti-Labour agenda distracts us from the real threat

I WENT on my first anti-fascist demonstration as a teenager in the 1970s. Ten years later I began working for the Runnymede Trust — a body providing research and information on racism and discrimination. 

My ears may occasionally need syringing but they are exceptionally well attuned to hearing expressions of any kind of racism or bigotry. 

I turned 61 last January, and in the last five or six years I have overheard or personally encountered more anti-semitism than in the previous 55 combined. 

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