Why is Islamic antisemitism on the rise in the UK?
by Tim Dieppe, Christian Concern:
I really did not expect that I would live to see Jewish schools closing in the UK because they feared for the safety of Jewish pupils.
Yet, last Friday, three Jewish schools closed for the day and parents were told to keep their children inside because “of the risk of violence on the streets.”
They were right to worry about their safety since two Jewish schools were vandalised with red paint in the last week. All Jewish schools in the UK now have security guards that are paid for by the government. The government awarded £3m extra funding to “protect schools, synagogues and other Jewish community buildings.”
It is shocking that they are needed.
Meanwhile there are open demonstrations in the streets with crowds chanting antisemitic slogans and celebrating Islamic terrorism.
Sevenfold rise in antisemitic incidents
The Metropolitan Police said that between 30 September and 13 October there had been 75 reports of antisemitic offences, up from 12 in the same period in 2022. Incidents reported to the police increased sevenfold year on year from 14 to 105.
The Jewish charity Community Security Trust said that in the ten days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel on Saturday 7 October and Monday 16 October it recorded 320 antisemitic incidents across the UK, and stressed that this is a provisional figure that is likely to rise. This compares with 47 antisemitic incidents over the same ten days in 2022.
These incidents included 15 assaults, 14 cases of damage and desecration of Jewish property, and 46 direct threats. Swastikas were seen daubed in Manchester.
The Islamic connection
I wrote about Islamic antisemitism after the last spike in antisemitic incidents in 2021. In that article, I quoted multiple examples of antisemitic verses in the Qur’an and in the Hadith and in the life of Muhammad. I noted that the Hamas Charter cites various antisemitic Hadith. For example, the Charter says:
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