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Thousands of people marched against anti-Semitism on the streets of London on Sunday. According to the Jewish charity Community Security Trust (CST), 1,324 anti-Semitic acts were recorded in Britain between the start of the war on October 7 and November 15. A record.

Thousands of people marched against anti-Semitism in the streets of London on Sunday, a day after another pro-Palestinian protest and the third day of the truce between Israel and Hamas. In the procession, which set off from the Royal Court of Justice towards Parliament in the centre of the capital, many demonstrators waved Israeli and British flags and signs reading "Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism".

They also posted photos of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas during the bloody attack on Israel on October 7, which prompted an Israeli response in the Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly shelled since the truce began on Friday. "On October 7, we woke up to a new reality and we were all traumatised by it," Omer Plotniarz, a 37-year-old music therapist, told AFP.

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"We just want to see our babies, our wives, our brothers, our sisters, everyone at home," he pleaded. "We are here to support Israel, to demand the release of all hostages," said Debby Goldberg, 52, holding an Israeli flag. "We are here to ask for peace and an end to this nightmare," added the Israeli citizen from Argentina.

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According to the Jewish charity Community Security Trust (CST), 1,324 anti-Semitic acts were recorded in Britain between the start of the war on October 7 and November 15, a record, compared to 271 in the same period last year. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took part in the march, which was organised by the Campaign Against Antisemitism. At the start of the protest, police arrested the founder of the far-right EDL group Tommy Robinson, who had been asked to stay away.

Pro-Palestinian protest on Saturday

The day before, tens of thousands of Britons once again took to the streets in support of the Palestinians, demanding a lasting ceasefire in Gaza. A new exchange of Hamas hostages for Palestinian prisoners is scheduled for Sunday, the third day of the truce between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military estimated that 240 hostages were kidnapped and 1,200 people - the vast majority of them civilians - were massacred in the October 7 attack. In the Gaza Strip, the Hamas government claims that nearly 15,000 people, including 6,150 under the age of 18, have been killed by Israeli strikes.