Antisemitic incidents in UK hit record high over past year, says organization

The UK saw a record number of antisemitic incidents in the year since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, a Jewish charity says.

The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitism in Britain, recorded 5,583 such incidents from October 7 until September 30 — its highest 12-month tally since it began its count in 1984.

It represented a 204% increase on the 1,830 incidents recorded in the prior yearlong period.

“When conflict rages in Israel, anti-Jewish hate rises in the UK,” CST writes on X, alongside a breakdown of its figures.

It adds that “incidents started flooding in before Israel’s military retaliation” for the October 7 attacks, calling the situation “unprecedented.”

In its breakdown of antisemitic incidents in Britain over the last year, CST categorized the majority — 4,583 — as “abusive behavior.” The organization recorded 302 as “assault” and one act of “extreme violence,” as well as 266 incidents of “damage and desecration” and 30 of antisemitic “literature.”