Today marks both the two month anniversary of the war in Gaza and the start of the Hanukkah festival period. For Jews worldwide, it is a sombre occasion as this is the first Jewish festival since the Oct 7 attacks that saw gunmen storm communities near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing hundreds of Israelis and taking hostages.
As the war has unfolded, both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have skyrocketed. In the 61 days inclusive between the Hamas terror attack on Israel and Dec 6, Community Security Trust (CST) recorded at least 1,890 anti-Semitic incidents across the UK.
