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Antisemitic Incidents Report 2024

12 February 2025

CST’s Antisemitic Incidents Report 2024, published today, shows 3,528 instances of anti-Jewish hate recorded across the UK in 2024. This is the second-highest annual total ever reported to CST. It is a 18% fall from the 4,296 antisemitic incidents in 2023, and 56% higher than the next highest figure: 2,261 incidents in 2021. CST recorded 1,662 antisemitic incidents in 2022, and 1,684 in 2020.

A further 2,479 potential incidents were reported to CST that are not included among this report’s statistics as, upon analysis, they were not deemed to be antisemitic. Many of these incidents involve suspicious activity or possible hostile reconnaissance at Jewish locations, criminal activity affecting Jewish people and buildings, and anti-Israel activity that did not include antisemitic language, motivation or targeting. Combined with the antisemitic incidents recorded, CST handled over 6,000 reports in 2024 which required a mixture of victim support and follow-up, further investigation, security advice, and liaison with police, local authorities and other institutions.

The annual total for 2024 reflects the sustained high levels of anti-Jewish hate that have been recorded across the country since the Hamas terror attack in Israel on 7 October 2023. CST’s Antisemitic Incidents Report 2023 charted the immediacy and scope of the rise in antisemitic incidents following that attack, before Israel had initiated any extensive military response in Gaza. The subsequent war, which continues to hold prominence in public and media discourse, has impacted both the volume and language of antisemitism ever since.

In 2024, CST recorded over 200 cases of anti-Jewish hate in every month bar December. Prior to October 2023, CST had only recorded more than 200 incidents per month on five occasions, all of which occurred when Israel was at war. February’s, January’s and March’s respective tallies of 446, 392 and 321 antisemitic incidents make them the fifth-, sixth- and seventh-worst months of antisemitism in CST’s 40 years of logging and analysing this hatred.

In 1,844 incidents – 52% of the annual total – the offender used discourse relating to Israel, Gaza, Hamas and the war in the Middle East. There were 1,533 incidents that showed explicitly anti-Zionist motivation alongside anti-Jewish language or targeting, 422 employing variations on the terms “Zionism” or “Zionist”, often as euphemisms for “Jewishness” and “Jew”, or in conjunction with other anti-Jewish sentiment, and 327 wherein equivalences were drawn between Israel or Jewish people and the Nazis.

CST recorded 201 incidents in the category of Assault, a fall of 26% from the 273 incidents of this type reported in 2023. There was one additional incident severe enough to be classed as Extreme Violence (meaning it involved grievous bodily harm or a potential threat to life) whereas none did the previous year. Taken together, physical attacks on Jewish people constitute 6% of the annual total in 2024, the same as in 2023.

Cases of Damage & Desecration to Jewish Property decreased by 19%, from 195 incidents in 2023 to 157 in 2024. There were 250 incidents reported to CST in the category of Threats in 2024, a fall of 20% from the 314 such incidents recorded in 2023. There were 2,892 incidents in the category of Abusive Behaviour in 2024, 17% lower than the 3,491 reports of this kind logged in 2023. This figure alone eclipses annual totals across all categories in every year bar the last two. There were 27 incidents reported to CST in the category of mass-produced antisemitic Literature in 2024, rising by17% from 23 such incidents recorded in 2023. In all categories bar Extreme Violence and Literature, 2024 saw the second-highest annual figures ever reported.

CST recorded 1,240 cases of online antisemitism in 2024, the second-highest across any year and a decrease of 9% from the 1,360 online incidents reported in 2023. These incidents form 35% of the overall total, slightly more than 32% in 2023. The numerical and proportional rises charted over the past two years are partly a consequence of the ongoing war in the Middle East, and the way this subject matter prompts discussion and debate on social media platforms. Sometimes, this dialogue slips into anti-Jewish discourse. Of these 1,240 incidents, 885 (71%) were directly related somehow to Israel and events in the region. This was true of just 959 (42%) of the 2,288 ‘offline’ cases of antisemitism reported in 2024.

A high amount of anti-Jewish hate was recorded in the school sector. In 2024, there were 260 instances of antisemitism affecting schools, schoolchildren and staff, second only to 2023’s figure of 335. Similarly, a high number of incidents were recorded in the higher education sphere. CST logged 145 cases of anti-Jewish hate wherein the victims or offenders were students or academics, or which involved student unions, societies or other representative bodies. It is a fall of 23% from the 189 incidents of this kind reported in 2023. Of these 145 incidents, 65 were online, 66 took place on campus or university premises, and 99 (68%) referenced Israel and events in the Middle East. For context, 52% of incidents not linked to universities contained this rhetoric. 

Meanwhile, a record 223 incidents saw synagogues, congregants and staff targeted, either on site or on their way to or from prayers, up from 207 in 2023. Jewish organisations and businesses received antisemitic abuse in a record 652 instances, compared to 498 the previous year, while public figures were recipients of anti-Jewish hate in a record 179 cases, a rise from 145 incidents of this nature in 2023. 

In 2024, 1,847 antisemitic incidents were reported to have taken place in Greater London, falling by 24% from 2023’s total of 2,441 London-based incidents. CST recorded 480 antisemitic incidents in Greater Manchester, a decrease of 13% from the 556 incidents in the corresponding area in 2023. Their combined contribution to the overall figure is 66%, and these areas where Jewish life is most deeply established remain the principal targets of antisemitism.

Elsewhere, the police regions with the highest levels of reported antisemitism in 2024 were West Yorkshire with 184 incidents, Hertfordshire with 117 incidents, Scotland with 74 incidents, Thames Valley with 65 incidents, and West Midlands with 63 incidents.

Read the full Antisemitic Incidents Report 2024.

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