Anti-Semitism in Scotland. "Though there is no intelligence to suggest Glasgow’s Jews are at particular risk, security outside Jewish buildings has been stepped up; there are now police patrols during services at the synagogue – a squat, square building decorated with a large black menorah – to bolster the protection provided by the Community Security Trust. Police officers are also regularly in attendance at Scotland’s only Jewish primary school where children are no longer allowed to line up in the playground in the mornings.
The number of antisemitic attacks in Scotland doubled last year (rising ten-fold in Glasgow). It is important not to get these figures out of perspective; there were just 31 reported incidents in total (21 in Glasgow). Still, given the size of the Jewish population – 10,000 spread across every local authority area in Scotland – it still means Jews are more likely than other religious groups to be targeted."