Antisemitic incidents in UK schools soared in 2023, charity reports

Community Security Trust records rise of 232%, almost three-quarters of which took place after Hamas’s 7 October attack

The anonymous letter that landed on the desk of a headteacher of a Jewish school in Hertfordshire in November did not pull its punches.

“Beware,” it began. “Jihadi is being fought and you are going to have your throat slit by us.” Among the reasons it listed were “we see you like music which is unIslamic”; “you wear a tie and are western” and “you are a Jew lover”. It ended with the words: “From the river to the see [sic] we shall be free, you Zionist.”