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Britain has seen the fourth-highest rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe since the October 7 Hamas attacks, ‘staggering’ figures have revealed.
Amid rising concern about US-style pro-Palestine protests at UK universities, a disturbing international league table yesterday showed hate crimes aimed at Jewish people leapt from 1,662 to 4,103 last year – up 146 per cent.
In Europe, only France, Switzerland and Bulgaria recorded a higher rate of increase – prompting campaigners to warn that Britain was ‘succumbing to a racist mob’.
Disturbingly, the UK also witnessed 58 per cent more assaults on Jewish people between October 7 and the end of 2023 than the US, despite having just one twentieth as many Jews.
The alarming figures come as universities were accused of deserting Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests sweeping the country.
Britain has seen the fourth highest rate of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe since Hamas unleashed their terror attack in southern Israel on October 7 last year
The aftermath of an attack on the Supernova music Festival by Palestinian militants on October 7
Students at an encampment on the grounds of Newcastle University, protesting against the war in Gaza
West Yorkshire Police at Leeds University where protesters set up tents on campus in solidarity with Palestine
On Saturday, Edward Isaacs, president of the Union of Jewish Students, said that campus bosses had not been ‘allies’ to his members and were not making them feel ‘included’.
