Huge rise in antisemitic abuse in UK since Hamas attack, says charity

Police patrolling the streets around a kosher food store in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, in October after a rise in antisemitic incidents. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

The scale of the surge in antisemitism in the UK since Hamas’s attack on Israel on 7 October has been revealed, in data showing a 589% increase in the number of incidents compared with the same period in 2022.

The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Jewish abuse and attacks and provides security for UK Jewish communities, said the unprecedented increase was a “watershed moment for antisemitism in the UK”.