The latest statistics released by the Community Security Trust this week paint a gloomy picture, with Anti-Semitic incidents rising by 21% in the first six months of 2026, compared to the same period last year.

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It marks yet another increase, another near-record total, and a continuing tale of ordinary British people being randomly threatened, attacked and abused in our country simply because they are Jewish.

Anti-Semitism is as old as the hills but this latest story began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas stormed into Israel, killed 1,200 people, took 251 hostages and triggered a regional war that is still rumbling today.

It also sparked a wave of anti-Jewish hatred around the world that has not abated. The worst examples are shocking: two declared terrorist stabbings of Jewish people in the past ten months, having not had any anti-Jewish terror attacks for decades.

We have also seen fire bombings of synagogues and other Jewish premises.

And behind the headlines, the daily drumbeat of verbal........

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