CST
The Community Security Trust (CST) has labelled May the “month of hate” after a record-breaking 628 antisemitic incidents were recorded by the Jewish security charity, during the recent conflict in Israel and Gaza.
In a new report, the CST reveals the extent of which British Jewish were subjected to acts of racial abuse between 8th May and 7th June. The findings show that 585 of the 628 antisemitic incidents involved language, imagery or behaviour linked to the conflict in Israel and Gaza. The CST states that “this was the most intense period of anti-Jewish hate seen in the UK in recent years, with record numbers of antisemitic incidents, anti-Jewish chants and placards on demonstrations, incitement from UK extremists and calls from jihadist terror groups for Jews to be killed”.
Examples included the pro-Palestine car convoy that drove through North London as demonstrators shouted “f**k the Jews, rape their daughters”, as well as less publicised individual acts of racism.
A quarter of all incidents involved abuse, threats and harassment directed at Jewish school children and teachers or university students and staff. The report also details that a “minority of people on anti-Israel demonstrations brought antisemitic placards or chanted antisemitic slogans calling for Jews to be killed”.
Mark Gardner, CST’s chief executive has called for “firmer action against perpetrators and an end to the selective anti-racism from those who passionately oppose most racism but uniquely ignore anti-Jewish hate”.
