LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Reports of antisemitic incidents in Britain since the weekend have tripled compared with the same period last year following the outbreak of new Israel-Palestinian conflict, a Jewish charity said on Tuesday.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain’s estimated 280,000 Jews on security matters, did not provide exact numbers but said further incidents could be reported in the coming days.
“We don’t have firm numbers yet as we are still logging and verifying everything that has come in, which also means that the number is likely to rise further, but the current rate is roughly triple what it was for the same period last year,” a spokesperson said.
The CST says any escalation in violence in Israel and Gaza often leads to antisemitic reactions in Britain.
Interior minister Suella Braverman wrote to police chiefs on Tuesday, saying that experience showed “Islamists and other racists” would use the current conflict to stir up hatred against British Jews.
She called on police to take a tough line, not just against shows of support for Hamas – which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in Britain – but also towards some pro-Palestinian displays.
“Behaviours that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism,” she said in her letter.
“Nor is it acceptable to drive through Jewish neighbourhoods, or single out Jewish members of the public, to aggressively chant or wave pro-Palestinian symbols at,” she wrote in the letter published on the government website.
On Monday, hundreds of people gathered at two locations in central London to mark the attacks, with supporters of Israel gathering near the prime minister’s residence at Downing Street to hold a vigil, and pro-Palestinian protesters demanding an “Intifada revolution” near the Israeli embassy.
Police said they had made three arrests at the demonstrations.
Antisemitic incidents in Britain hit a record high in 2021, fuelled by a rise in violence in Israel and Gaza, and last year the CST recorded 1,652, down 27% from the previous year.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has expressed his solidarity with Britain’s Jews and has said he would work to make sure they felt safe, while police have stepped up patrols to provide reassurance to Jewish communities.
Anti zionist isn’t anti semetic. Supporting human rights for Palestinians isn’t anti semetic. Israel does not represent the jews of the world. Israel highjacked Judaism and uses it to “justify” the apartheid state it built.
But but but they said anti-zionism is not anti-semitism
The Palestinian diaspora and their friends are really out in full force trying to make as many people as possible hate them.
Saw a video earlier from a protest in Copenhagen and some dipshit said multiple times he wanted on Jews eradicated and another jackass from Hizb ut-Tahrir said the festival attack was a great attack targeting military and police.
The idiot also claimed he only has seen videos of Israelis praising hamas for protecting them.
You can’t make this shit up.
The mind virus doesn’t care where the infected live. That’s why you see it’s symptoms wherever the infected take root.
All these terrorist sympathisers coming out should alarm national security about the kind of monsters we have imported into Europe.
Islam is incompatible with western values. The twisted faith teaches them to hate infidels, Jews, LGBT and even different sects. Their voices will grow louder as they outbreed native population. Demands for sharia law will start by next decade.
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LONDON, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Reports of antisemitic incidents in Britain since the weekend have tripled compared with the same period last year following the outbreak of new Israel-Palestinian conflict, a Jewish charity said on Tuesday.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain’s estimated 280,000 Jews on security matters, did not provide exact numbers but said further incidents could be reported in the coming days.
“We don’t have firm numbers yet as we are still logging and verifying everything that has come in, which also means that the number is likely to rise further, but the current rate is roughly triple what it was for the same period last year,” a spokesperson said.
The CST says any escalation in violence in Israel and Gaza often leads to antisemitic reactions in Britain.
Interior minister Suella Braverman wrote to police chiefs on Tuesday, saying that experience showed “Islamists and other racists” would use the current conflict to stir up hatred against British Jews.
She called on police to take a tough line, not just against shows of support for Hamas – which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in Britain – but also towards some pro-Palestinian displays.
“Behaviours that are legitimate in some circumstances, for example the waving of a Palestinian flag, may not be legitimate such as when intended to glorify acts of terrorism,” she said in her letter.
“Nor is it acceptable to drive through Jewish neighbourhoods, or single out Jewish members of the public, to aggressively chant or wave pro-Palestinian symbols at,” she wrote in the letter published on the government website.
On Monday, hundreds of people gathered at two locations in central London to mark the attacks, with supporters of Israel gathering near the prime minister’s residence at Downing Street to hold a vigil, and pro-Palestinian protesters demanding an “Intifada revolution” near the Israeli embassy.
Police said they had made three arrests at the demonstrations.
Antisemitic incidents in Britain hit a record high in 2021, fuelled by a rise in violence in Israel and Gaza, and last year the CST recorded 1,652, down 27% from the previous year.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has expressed his solidarity with Britain’s Jews and has said he would work to make sure they felt safe, while police have stepped up patrols to provide reassurance to Jewish communities.
Anti zionist isn’t anti semetic. Supporting human rights for Palestinians isn’t anti semetic. Israel does not represent the jews of the world. Israel highjacked Judaism and uses it to “justify” the apartheid state it built.
But but but they said anti-zionism is not anti-semitism
The Palestinian diaspora and their friends are really out in full force trying to make as many people as possible hate them.
Saw a video earlier from a protest in Copenhagen and some dipshit said multiple times he wanted on Jews eradicated and another jackass from Hizb ut-Tahrir said the festival attack was a great attack targeting military and police.
The idiot also claimed he only has seen videos of Israelis praising hamas for protecting them.
You can’t make this shit up.
The mind virus doesn’t care where the infected live. That’s why you see it’s symptoms wherever the infected take root.
All these terrorist sympathisers coming out should alarm national security about the kind of monsters we have imported into Europe.
Islam is incompatible with western values. The twisted faith teaches them to hate infidels, Jews, LGBT and even different sects. Their voices will grow louder as they outbreed native population. Demands for sharia law will start by next decade.