UK: Council leader blames Israel for rising antisemitism

Via the Jewish Chronicle: 

The leader of a council which flew the Palestinian flag during last summer’s Gaza conflict told objectors that rising antisemitism was Israel’s fault.

Preston council leader Peter Rankin told one complainant: “You need to think why this antisemitism is getting worse. It’s because of the actions of the IDF shelling schools and hospitals and killing and maiming thousands of men, women and children.”