Sevenfold increase in antisemitic incidents recorded in UK since Hamas attack | EUROtoday

Antisemitic incidents in the UK have elevated by virtually 600% since Hamas’ attack on Israel, in response to a Jewish safety group.

The Community Security Trust (CST), which represents British Jews on problems with racism and policing, stated it had recorded 320 antisemitic incidents between October 7 and 16, a sevenfold increase on the 47 antisemitic incidents recorded over the identical interval final 12 months.

CST stated 15 of the 320 incidents recorded had been assaults, 14 referred to break to Jewish property and 244 had been associated to abusive behaviour, with 86 going down on-line.

Examples of antisemitic incidents included in the 581% rise included a risk revamped the telephone to a kosher store in Liverpool, saying “we are coming to get you”.

“Free Palestine, kill Jews” was shouted on the coronary heart of a Jewish neighborhood in London.

Two Jewish colleges in north London had been vandalised with purple paint in what has been referred to as “a disgraceful attempt to intimidate and harass” the neighborhood by Dave Rich, director of coverage at CST.

Shomrim Stamford Hill stated one faculty was focused on Thursday and a second on Monday morning, because it tweeted CCTV footage of a masked determine spraying the paint on the skin of the buildings.

In a weblog submit on Monday, CST stated: “These are all cases of anti-Jewish racism, whereby offenders are concentrating on Jewish individuals, communities and establishments for his or her Jewishness.

“In many circumstances, these hateful feedback, threats to life and bodily assaults are laced with the language and symbols of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel politics.

“Even in comparison with durations of earlier conflicts involving Israel, these statistics are unprecedentedly excessive.

“The final time a major spike in antisemitism associated to occasions in the Middle East was recorded occurred in May 2021.

“During the first 10 days of that escalation in violence, 298 antisemitic incidents were reported to CST. Across the first 10 days of the conflict in July 2014, we recorded 82.

“Bear in mind, when comparing these to the 320 anti-Jewish hate incidents recorded since Saturday October 7, that the figures for 2021 and 2014 are final totals including all late-reported incidents, whereas the current total of 320 incidents is only provisional and will almost certainly increase further.”

The Jewish safety group added: “CST will not stand for this anti-Jewish hatred and nor should anybody else.

“We urge everyone who experiences or witnesses antisemitism to report it to police and to CST so that those who are trying to intimidate and threaten our community can be investigated, arrested and prosecuted.”