"The UK suffered its worst ever outbreak of antisemitic fervor in a one month period from May to June this year since records began in 1984, with a massive increase in antisemitism during this period coming against the background of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
According to a new Community Security Trust (CST) report, an organization which tracks antisemitism in the UK, a total of 628 antisemitic hate incidents took place between May 8 and June 7, more than four times the number of incidents during the same period in 2020 and the month prior to May 8 2021.
The actual rise in percentage terms from the month before the conflict to the May 8 – June 7 period was an incredible 365%.
CST CEO Mark Gardner said that British Jews suffered a campaign of racist hatred, abuse and intimidation, and alleged that anti-racism campaigners ignored or even excused anti-Jewish hate.
Over the period in question, speakers at pro-Palestinian rallies talked of Jewish control of the media; antisemitic prayers and slogans were recited at demonstrations; and Israel was compared to Nazi Germany.
A rabbi was violently assaulted and hospitalized in London in a religiously motivated attack, and a Jewish woman driving her four-year old son who wore a yarmulke was rammed by two cars flying Palestinian flags in the neighborhood of Hendon, which has a large Jewish population..."