After Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,200 people in Israel, Hamas’ ideology and lethal antisemitism have been embraced by movements across Europe and beyond.
Since the Hamas terror massacre of Israeli Jews Oct. 7, the U.S. has been hit with record levels of antisemitic incidents. While authorities are getting to grips with how to effectively deal with it, Western democracies are also dealing with an explosion of antisemitism not witnessed since the Holocaust.
Across the Atlantic, the United Kingdom has been rocked by unprecedented antisemitism.
« In the 68 days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel (Oct. 7) and Wednesday, Dec. 13, CST recorded at least 2,093 antisemitic incidents across the U.K., » according to the Community Security Trust (CST), the organization responsible for the security of British Jews.
« This is the highest ever total reported to CST across a sixty-eight-day period. CST has been recording antisemitic incidents since 1984. »
« I think people are feeling tense and nervous, particularly with marches taking place every Saturday, » Jake Wallis Simons, editor-in-chief of the London-based Jewish Chronicle, told Fox News Digital from England.
Mass pro-Palestinian marches have blanketed the heart of London.
« The marches had a lot of antisemitism and criminality in them, and there are placards supporting Hamas, » Wallis Simons said.
Former British Home Secretary Suella Braverman decried the mass protests as « hate marches » and wanted to ban the mass antisemitic spectacles. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, fired the outspoken Braverman after her calls for the need to rein in public Jew hatred. Braverman accused the police of double standards at pro-Palestinian marches in an unauthorized newspaper article, according to Reuters.
The demonstrations in the U.K. have been largely populated by leftists and British Muslims.
« The police are not cracking down on antisemitism, » said Wallis Simons. He noted that the police are claiming that « if they enforce the law, it will lead to disorder. » He stressed the absurdity of the police reasoning because « that allows space for antisemitic hate to go on. There have been some arrests. »
He termed a late February march outside parliament, where the antisemitic slogan « from the river to the sea, » was projected on Big Ben, a « real expression of mob power and intimidated politicians. »
The full slogan, « From the river to sea, Palestine will be free, » is widely interpreted to mean the abolition of the Jewish state and its replacement with a Palestinian nation.Antisemitism Exposed
Just last week The Board of Deputies of British Jews wrote on X about the election of pro-Hamas and firebrand socialist politician George Galloway to Parliament.
« George Galloway is a demagogue and conspiracy theorist, who has brought the politics of division and hate to every place he has ever stood for Parliament. His election is a dark day for the Jewish community in this country, and for British politics in general. »
« This is for Gaza, » Galloway said of his special election victory.
« Jewish children are being told to hide their school blazers, Jewish students are terrified on campus, synagogues are guarded, kosher shops are being attacked, business owners are being threatened, » a spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism in the United Kingdom told Fox News Digital.
« The effect is that, as our polling shows, a majority of Jewish people in this country are afraid to show their Jewishness in public, and we are aware of some Jews who have left the country altogether. This is not the tolerant Britain that we cherish It is a Britain succumbing to a racist mob. »
The spokesperson for the Campaign Against Antisemitism added, « At the epicenter of this societal disaster are the weekly anti-Israel marches, which feature antisemitic signage, genocidal rhetoric and intimidation. They have made London a no-go zone for Jews. Brave officers are outnumbered and cannot properly police these marches, which therefore continue to infect our public discourse.
