There is a grim pattern that British Jews have become all too familiar with.

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Whenever there is conflict involving Israel in the Middle East, antisemitism in Britain increases. We have seen it repeatedly over the years, but it was impossible to prepare the Jewish community for what followed Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. The hatred did not wait for Israel’s military response. It was on our streets almost immediately, with London and Manchester awash with people celebrating these appalling atrocities.

The Community Security Trust, the organisation reporting to government on antisemitic hate crime, recorded 31 antisemitic incidents on 7 October itself. In the days that followed, the numbers surged. In the final months of 2023, British Jews were subjected to an unprecedented wave of abuse, threats, intimidation and attacks. Since then, that antisemitism has seeped into every part of British society, on our streets, online, at universities, in workplaces, schools and even the NHS.

CST recorded 4,103 antisemitic incidents in 2023, the highest annual total it had ever recorded. A staggering 2,699 of those occurred after 7 October. In 2024, there were another 3,528. And in the first six........

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