The Community Security Trust revealed a figure about antisemitism in the UK, and it marks an all-time high in the first half of 2024 for a 6-month period.
British Jews documented nearly 2,000 antisemitic incidents in the first half of 2024, which is a 100% per cent increase from the same period last year, reports The Times of Israel.
There has been a sharp rise in hate crimes against Jews and anti-Israel rallies since October 7, as the 1,978 incidents recorded by the Community Security Trust show. The report’s release coincided with a series of riots in recent days across the United Kingdom.
The riots, which Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as featuring „wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric” against Muslims and other minority communities, erupted after the period covered in the CST report.
The violence began with the murder of three girls in Southport. Police suspect the killer was a 17-year-old boy of Rwandan descent. The incident led to expressions of deep-seated anti-immigration sentiments fuelled by the illegal immigration of tens of thousands of people each year, alongside the legal immigration of hundreds of thousands more, many of them from the Middle East and Africa.
According to CST, „there are some people in this movement and their online spaces encouraging others to consider Jews as a target.” The CST believes that most perpetrators of antisemitic incidents were likely „motivated to act in response to the conflict in the Middle East,” which is likelier to turn people of Muslim or Middle Eastern descent against Jews than white ultranationalists.
There are merely 624 cases out of 1,978 that report a description of the perpetrator’s appearance. Of those, 42% were described as white. The remaining 58% were divided among people who looked Middle Eastern (30%), South Asian (14%), Black (12%), or miscellaneous.
CST recorded 121 assaults. The remaining incidents were categorised as „abusive behaviour” (1,618 cases) and threats (142). The number of online incidents recorded was 630.
Photo credit: CARLOS JASSO / AFP via The Times of Israel
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