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antisemitism in the UK

Illustrative: Police officers stand guard outside Woolwich Crown Court as the trial of three Iranian nationals, charged with spying offenses on behalf of Iran’s foreign intelligence service, takes place in London, October 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
October 20, 2026, 8:55 pm
At least three Jewish women attacked in north London in alleged hate crime
Suspect arrested after being detained by Jewish security volunteers who quickly arrived on scene; victims, including mother with baby, believe they were assaulted due to their faith
By Zev Stub
Britain's King Charles III looks at bouquets of flowers during a visit to Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 20, 2025. (Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP)
October 13, 2026, 6:29 am
UK launches public inquiry into deaths during 2025 Yom Kippur Manchester synagogue attack
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells lawmakers that ‘what happened that day must be fully understood,’ and opening inquiry will ‘ensure that all evidence can be heard’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Members of the Jewish community comfort each other following a deadly terror attack during Yom Kippur services at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester, northern England, October 2, 2025. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
October 13, 2026, 1:03 am
Anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales, according to government data
Home Office figures show Jews and Muslims most targeted in religiously motivated hate crimes, with 3,162 incidents targeting Jewish community between March 2025 and March 2026
By Lianne Kolirin
Illustrative: A view is of St Thomas’ Hospital in central London on April 11, 2020 (Niklas HALLE’N/AFP)
October 10, 2026, 7:28 pm
5 UK health workers spread hate against Jews and Israel, one cheered Oct. 7 — report
Daily Mail further details antisemitic posts made by current and former NHS doctors and staff, including calling Zionism an ‘ideology of terror’ and saying Australia’s Bondi attack was a ‘false flag’
By ToI Staff
A photo Dan Levene posted after reporting that he was assaulted by anti-Israel graffiti artists, October 7, 2026. (Dan Levene/X)
October 8, 2026, 10:43 pm
Jewish man says he was beaten after confronting anti-Israel vandals in London
Victim says he was attacked when he disrupted graffiti artist calling Labour candidate ‘puppet of genocidal Israel’; police said treating incident as antisemitic hate crime
By ToI Staff
Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters encounter a pro-Israel protester during a march in London marking three years since 2023's Hamas-led invasion and massacre in Israel, October 7, 2026. (AP/Kin Cheung)
October 8, 2026, 5:18 pm
October 7 anniversary sparks protests, clashes and competing vigils worldwide
Demonstrations held across Europe, the Americas and Australia, with arrests in London and Berlin; anti-Israel rally initially banned in Paris, then allowed, amid wider unrest
By Zev Stub
Britain’s leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski poses with supporters after speaking at a rally in a park in south London, on June 24, 2026. (Henry Nicholls/ AFP)
October 6, 2026, 9:03 am
European Green Party condemns UK Greens for ‘Zionism is racism’ policy
European group says resolution, which wants Israel replaced by a ‘democratic Palestinian state throughout historic Palestine,’ contradicts its two-state stance; German Greens call it ‘intolerable’; UK’s Amnesty International chair quits party
By ToI Staff, Lazar Berman and Zev Stub
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 5, 2026, 11:09 am
UK Jews ‘appalled’ as Green Party brands Zionism as racism, calls to erase Israel
Leading organizations describe the resolution as an ‘antisemitic platform’ and an ‘attack on the Jewish community,’ accuse the party of embracing extremism
By Zev Stub
Britain’s Green Party leader Zack Polanski attends a Green Party conference in Brighton, Britain, October 2, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/Reuters)
October 4, 2026, 9:01 pm
UK’s Green Party declares ‘Zionism is racism,’ calls for Palestine to replace Israel
Israel bans Jewish leader Zack Polanski, says party legitimizing terrorists; resolution claims Zionism privileges one group while subjugating others; some Green MPs come out against move
By Lazar Berman
A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on October 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts. (AP Photo/Worth)
October 4, 2026, 7:37 am
90 years on, why are British Jews being erased from the heroic Battle of Cable Street?
Surging antisemitism and rise of far-right color anniversary, alongside schism with British left that conveniently leaves Jews out of their own historical stand against the police to take on fascism
By Robert Philpot
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tel Nof air base in a picture distributed on September 29, 2026; Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his Leader’s Speech during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, England, September 29, 2026. (Ma’ayan Toaf/GPO, AP Photo/Jon Super)
October 3, 2026, 10:06 pm
Netanyahu accuses UK government of acting ‘like a rogue state,’ says Israel saved British lives
PM says Israeli intel helped foil recent terror plot against British airbase, blasts settlement trade ban and Palestinian state recognition as appeasement of ‘Islamist forces’
By ToI Staff
British police near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester, on October 2, 2025, following a terror attack targeting the synagogue during Yom Kippur services. (Oli Scarff/AFP)
October 3, 2026, 4:47 am
2 Iranians accused of chlorine bomb plot against same Manchester synagogue attacked last year
Suspects arrested at start of Yom Kippur; police say they obtained materials to make an IED, scouted targets; interior minister says the pair arrived in UK on a small boat, one was granted asylum
By Agencies
Students march and wave Palestinian flags during an anti-Israel inter-university march in London on the second anniversary of the Hamas onslaught that sparked the war in Gaza, October 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
September 30, 2026, 2:00 am
Antisemitism on UK campuses continued to rise last year, watchdog says
Community Security Trust records 14% increase in antisemitic incidents in 2025-26 schoolyear, warns that universities must do more to protect Jewish students and staff
By Zev Stub
Essa Suleiman who is charged with attempted murder over a knife attack during which two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London, appears via video link at the Old Bailey as his trial date has been set for next March, in London, Britain, May 15, 2026, in this courtroom sketch. (Julia Quenzler/Reuters)
September 25, 2026, 8:45 pm
Man who stabbed 2 Jews in Golders Green pleads not guilty to attempted murder
Essa Suleiman, 45, appears for brief hearing at London court for April 29 attack in heavily Jewish neighborhood that left victims seriously injured; his trial is due to start in March
By Michael Holden
British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meet on the UN General Assembly sidelines on September 25, 2026. (Screen capture/X)
September 25, 2026, 4:09 pm
Miliband tells Iranian counterpart that Tehran-linked threats on UK soil won’t be tolerated
Foreign secretary raises security of British Jews in talks with Araghchi; pair also discuss Middle East war and reopening Strait of Hormuz; Iran pushes back against European ‘interference’
By Reuters
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