"Some of the largest police forces in the UK have seen a double spike in types of religious hate crime in the past 18 months, with numbers jumping after the start of the Israeli war on Gaza in autumn 2023 and again following the Southport attacks this summer, figures reveal."
"Antisemitic offences recorded by forces including Greater Manchester, West Midlands and the Metropolitan Police rose sharply in the weeks following the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East in October last year."
"Campaigners against anti-Muslim abuse said they were not seeing the action to tackle this problem, despite the government’s determination to stamp out the toxic vitriol spread by a minority of people."
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