Increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the UK in the past year: Charity | Israel-Palestine Conflicts News

More than 5,500 cases of abusive behavior have been recorded since the outbreak of war on October 7, the highest number ever recorded annually.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom has increased since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, according to a Jewish charity.

The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism in the UK, released its latest figures on Wednesday, reporting 5,583 anti-Semitic incidents across the country between October 7, 2023 and September 30, 2024 – the highest number on record. in any 12-month period since its first enumeration in 1984.

In the month of October 2023 alone, following a Hamas attack in Israel – in which at least 1,139 people were killed and around 250 kidnapped, sparking Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza – charities were involved in 1,400 anti-Semitic incidents.

The CST said that anti-Semitism has increased by 204 percent compared to the previous year, saying in a report focusing on the months between January and June that the “unprecedented” outbreak of violent behavior was caused by people who channeled “their anger at this national conflict. to British Jews.”

“As conflict escalates in Israel, anti-Semitism rises in the UK,” the charity said in X, along with a breakdown of its figures, adding that reports of anti-Semitism “were rampant” even before the Israeli army’s retaliation.

In its breakdown of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain last year, the CST classified 4,583 as “abusive behaviour” and 302 as “assault”, with 266 incidents involving “harm and desecration” and 30 related to anti-Semitic “literature”.

In the past year, there has been one incident of “extreme violence”.

The highest number of abuse incidents – 3,167 – were recorded in London. Anti-Semitic incidents were also recorded in Manchester and West Yorkshire, with 729 and 642 cases, respectively.

Britain has also seen an increase in Islamophobia and hate crimes against Muslims, over the past few years, some advocacy groups have previously reported.

Towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland have been rocked over the summer months by anti-immigrant riots, with hotels housing asylum seekers torched by far-right rioters.