The non-profit responsible for the protection of the United Kingdom's Jewish community – Community Security Trust – registered a record number of antisemitic incidents in London in May, the BBC reported.
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The CST recorded 201 incidents in May alone, almost all of them related to the 11-day flare-up in violence between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Israel.
The CST's Dave Rich told the BBC that people "take out their feelings about the conflict with racist abuse on British Jews."
"This abuse has nothing to do with Israel, it's just racism directed towards Jewish people who are picked out on the streets, on the Internet, because they are Jewish," he said.
Twelve reports were linked to assaults and more than 160 to abusive behavior.
The CST also recorded 20 cases of threats, seven instances relating to damage and desecration, making it the largest one-month total since records began back in the 1980s.
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In the House of Commons on May 17, Community Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Parliament that there had been a significant uptick in antisemitism on social media.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
