The second Jewish cemetery* has been desecrated in Britain within a period of around 72 hours. The Community Security Trust reports that last Sunday it was discovered that some 100 gravestones were pushed over and damaged in West Ham Jewish Cemetery. Two inverted swastikas were drawn onto four headstones, the door of the Rothschild family mausoleum was smashed and antisemitic pro-Nazi graffiti was daubed at the entrance of the mausoleum. This follows the desecration of at least 96 graves in Rainsough Jewish Cemetery in Prestwich, north Manchester, which was discovered last Thursday. Earlier this year Jewish graves in Aldershot municipal cemetery in Hampshire were attacked with swastikas and SS signs painted on 12 gravestones.

Dismayingly, this is becoming a commonplace ocurrence.

* Update: a third Jewish cemetery was desecrated this week at Rainham, Essex.