More than 5,000 anti-Semitic acts have been recorded since the start of the Hamas attack, according to a report from a community association published this Wednesday. Most were committed in London.
The number of anti-Semitic acts has tripled in the United Kingdom over the past year, with more than 5,000 incidents recorded since the Hamas attack on October 7 and the Israeli response in Gaza, according to a community association report published Wednesday. The Community Security Trust (CST), which also provides security for schools or places of worship for the Jewish community in the United Kingdom, announced this record figure of 5,583 incidents between October 7, 2023, the date of the unprecedented attack of Hamas on Israeli soil, and September 30, 2024. “When conflict rages in Israel, anti-Jewish hatred increases in the United Kingdom (…) This is the highest figure ever recorded over a 12-month period.said the CST on
Most of these acts, recorded mainly in the British capital, relate to verbal attacks (4583), others to threats (401), with also 302 physical attacks noted by the CST, including one of a «rare violence». Just over a quarter of these acts were recorded in the month following the unprecedented October 7 attack in Israel, when Hamas fighters infiltrated from the Gaza Strip entered the south of the country and killed 1,205 people. , mostly civilians. The offensive carried out by Israel in retaliation caused, according to the latest report published Wednesday by the Hamas government, the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, 41,689 deaths in this Palestinian territory.
Last month, Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to tackle “resurgence of anti-Semitism”telling the charity Holocaust Educational Trust that the government would not “not silent” et “wouldn’t look away”. The number of acts of hatred towards Muslims has also exploded in the United Kingdom since October 7, the anti-racist organization Tell MAMA highlighted last February. According to her, the number of reports of threats, attacks or hate speech jumped by 335% between the Hamas attack and February 7, 2024 compared to the same period the previous year, reaching a record figure of 2,000 incidents on four months.
