E/CN.4/1996/72 page 14 "blacks" or "blacks and ethnic minorities". In these black communities racial riots, murders of racist origin and various more or less serious incidents have occurred. 55. The arrival of immigrants and asylum-seekers, in particular from the southern hemisphere, has accentuated the ambient xenophobia. The recent measures envisaged by the Government to check immigration and requests for asylum (severe restriction of entry visas, construction of new holding centres, establishment of a list of safe countries for the grant of the right of asylum, greater restrictions on the reunification of families) do not seem likely to relieve tensions. British universalism is increasingly tending to be reduced to the European Union and the original civilizing and humanist mission of the United Kingdom is being eroded. In order to provide for a fresh look at that mission, the Special Rapporteur has made the following recommendations to which the British authorities showed themselves to be responsive at the recapitulatory meeting on 24 November: (i) (ii) (iii) Education for the acceptance of people different from oneself; The training of members of the police force and the incorporation in the police of citizens from different ethnic communities; The severe condemnation of police violence; (iv) Conditions that are more respectful of human dignity in the holding centres and in cases of the refoulement or expulsion of "illegal entrants" and asylum-seekers; (v) To review the law on incitement to racial hatred which is difficult to apply and seems to serve little purpose. To create a specific offence of racist harassment and violence and an offence of defamation with respect to an ethnic group or minority; (vi) To take action to ensure that the United Kingdom is not seen as a country that rejects people from the south, particularly black minorities, in favour of nationals of countries of the north. II. ANTI-SEMITISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD 56. The Special Rapporteur gives below an extract from the communication from the Israeli Government dated 13 October 1995 concerning anti-Semitism worldwide. The full text of this communication is available for consultation in the Secretariat. "1994 witnessed a worrisome worldwide escalation of violent anti-Semitic activities. Seventy-two cases of violent attacks perpetrated with the intention of killing, using firearms, personal weapons, and booby-trapped cars, were registered during 1994 as compared to 42 such incidents in 1993. Damage to cemeteries, Jewish institutions and property remained on a high level, similar to the previous year, totalling no less than 232 incidents. Violent attacks doubled in Western Europe, while in the United States there was an overall increase