Greater Manchester Police, for example, recorded 85 antisemitic offences in October 2023 and 68 in November 2023, up from an average of 13 per month over the first nine months of the year.
(Photo by Khalil Ramzi Alkahlut/Anadolu via Getty Images)] The same forces recorded a surge of hate offences targeting Muslim people after the Southport stabbings and subsequent riots in July this year.
UK hate crimes ‘surged’ after Southport attack and start of Gaza war Parts of the UK saw two sharp rises in Islamophobic and antisemitic hate crime respectively over the last year-and-a-half, new figures show.
Hate offences targeting Jewish people recorded by three major police forces spiked in the weeks after the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out in October 2023.
Islamophobic offences recorded by the force rose from an average of 33 a month in 2023 and 39 a month in the first half of 2024 before rising to 94 in August, then 73 in September.
