The United Kingdom recorded, in the first six months of 2025, the second highest number of anti-Semitic incidents since the start of the Community Security Trust (CST), a British Jewish association.
The comments made by rappers at the Glastonbury Festival at the end of June against the Israeli army and the intensification of the Israeli offensive in Gaza led to peaks in the reports of anti-Semitic acts and remarks in the United Kingdom, the report of a British Jewish community association on Wednesday, August 6.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom, recorded 1521 anti-Semitic incidents (verbal, physical or threats) over the first six months of 2025, a figure in decline of 25% over a year, but the second higher since the start of its statements in 1984. Daily (26, including 16 online) on June 29, the day after the concert of the duo Bob Vylan at the Glastonbury Festival in England, during which the rappers had chanted “Death, died in IDF”Israeli defense forces. Police have opened an investigation.
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Then comes on May 17 (19 reports), the day after Israel’s announcement by an expansion of its military offensive in Gaza. “These two cases illustrate how feeling and rhetoric with regard to Israel and Zionism influence, shape and feed anti -Jewish discourse”note the CST.
“Extreme levels of anti -Jewish hatred”
The United Kingdom has recorded a leap in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts since October 7, 2023, according to the statements of several associations and the government. For Mark Gardner, CEO Director of the CST, the report of his organization demonstrates the “Extreme levels of anti -Jewish under the guise of anti-Israel militancy ”.
Among the anti-Semitic acts recorded in the first half of 2025, 76 were violent assaults (-42% over a year) and 92 cases of degradation of goods belonging to Jewish persons or evoking the fate of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza (+10%). 572 reports correspond to online anti -Semitic incidents. The association specifies that it tried to distinguish between anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli feeling, and that it did not describe the words accusing Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza.
The British Minister of the Interior Yvette Cooper, cited in a statement from the CST, assured that the government remained “Determined to eradicate the poison of anti -Semitism”.