00:00 On the morning of 7th of October when the Hamas terror attack began in Israel,
00:05 we knew there would be a surge in anti-Jewish hatred in this country
00:08 because we've seen it so many times before.
00:10 But I think the scale of it is really shocking.
00:13 The size of the increase is so much higher than any other previous annual total.
00:18 The fact that we've seen incidents in every single part of the United Kingdom.
00:23 I think it feels for a lot of British Jews like something really changed on the 7th of October.
00:28 Of course we've seen anti-Semitism before, we've seen this kind of extremism before,
00:32 but it feels different.
00:34 It feels like it's affecting every part of Jewish life in a way that it didn't do previously.
00:39 But we've also seen a tripling of incidents in schools,
00:43 a similar increase in universities.
00:46 We've had complaints from workplaces.
00:48 We've seen the highest ever increase in online anti-Semitism.
00:53 So it's really affecting all the places that Jewish people go in every aspect of life.
00:58 I think a lot of Jewish people are very worried about what this means for the future
01:02 in a very practical sense, whether it is safe to leave their home
01:06 and show that they are visibly Jewish or if they have to change their behaviour.
01:10 I think there's an inner strength in the community to get through this as well.
01:13 But there's also a lot of anger that this is even happening in the first place.
01:17 You know, Britain over the years has become a country where
01:21 it's been a really good place to be Jewish.
01:23 And this feels like it's not the Britain that we have come to know.
01:27 And people are asking where this is coming from and where it's heading.
01:29 I think the anti-Jewish hatred should have no part in our society,
01:32 that it goes against our core values.
01:34 That's where I think all of us as a society can speak up more loudly.
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