This is a sad record.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a security advisory organization established to protect the 300,000-strong British Jewish community, announced in its annual survey that in 2023, 4,103 anti-Semitic-motivated atrocities were registered.
The CST emphasized: it has never recorded so many anti-Semitic incidents in a single calendar year. According to the organization's data, there were 1,662 reported anti-Jewish acts in Great Britain in 2022, which means that last year's figure represents a 147 percent increase year-on-year.
The number of such cases recorded in 2023 exceeds the previous record set in 2021 by 81 percent.
In that year, 2,261 anti-Semitic incidents were reported to the CST.
Last year's new record, according to data from the Community Security Trust, is primarily a consequence of the huge number of anti-Semitic acts following the terrorist attack by the extremist Islamist organization Hamas, which dominates the Gaza Strip, in Israel on October 7. Of the 4,103 anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2023, there were 2,699 - the number for the entire year was 66. percent - happened after October 7.
CST highlights in its report on Thursday that the number of anti-Semitic atrocities after the terrorist attack by Hamas in October alone exceeds the data of any previous full year and is 589 percent higher than the number of cases recorded in the same period a year earlier.
Last October alone, 1,330 anti-Semitic acts came to the attention of the organization; this is more than the previous three one-month records combined, says the annual report of the Community Security Trust presented on Thursday.
According to the organization, the perpetrators glorified the Holocaust in 184 of the anti-Semitic incidents recorded last year, and 64 percent of such cases occurred after the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7.
Some of these manifestations celebrated the terrorist act of Hamas as a holocaust again, while the perpetrators of other anti-Semitic acts lamented that Hitler did not succeed in exterminating all the Jews of the world, says the CST report.
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