A report out today shows 1,978 instances of anti-Jewish hate recorded across the UK in the first six months of this year.
This is the highest January-to-June total ever reported to the Community Security Trust, and higher than every previous annual total bar two: 2023 and 2021, when the record figures were also driven by anti-Jewish reactions to conflict in the Middle East
There were 268 antisemitic incidents recorded in Greater Manchester, an increase of 96% from the 137 such incidents in the same timeframe in 2023.
CST recorded 1,037 antisemitic incidents in Greater London, an increase of 120% from the 471 incidents reported in London in the first half of 2023.
Discourse relating to Israel, Palestine and the Hamas terror attack was evident in 1,026 incidents, 52% of the total. There were 836 incidents that showed explicitly anti-Zionist motivation alongside anti-Jewish hate speech or targeting, 208 containing the words “Zionism” or “Zionist”, often as euphemisms for “Jewishness” and “Jew” or alongside other antisemitic sentiments, and 186 wherein direct comparisons were drawn between Israel or Jewish people and the Nazis.
