In his speech to parliament on Tuesday, King Charles declared that Britain was ‘committed’ to tackling anti-Semitism. His remarks were made amid a surge in acts of such bigotry on British streets, the majority occurring in London.
On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police announced that they had arrested 98 people on suspicion of anti-Semitic hate crimes since Hamas’s slaughter of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians on 7 October. The Met recorded 408 alleged anti-Semitic offences in October, an increase of 380 on the same period in 2022.
It will take courage and determination to dispel this darkness – from politicians, the police and the general public
Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jew, expressed her concern about the deteriorating situation. She said: ‘We deserve to feel secure on the streets of our country…[but] cannot be confident of the safety of Jewish children in schools, students on campus and anyone else who can be easily identified as Jewish.
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