A study of religion in Glasgow found “a perceptible increase in anti-Jewishness” in the city. The report, carried out by sociologists at Edinburgh University and commissioned by the Glasgow City Council, noted that Jews in Scotland’s second-largest city encountered “significant” levels of religious intolerance, leading in some cases to verbal and physical abuse.
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