Reports of antisemitic incidents spiked in the UK a day after Bob Vylan's controversial performance at Glastonbury.

According to the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity which monitors antisemitism in the UK, the highest daily number of antisemitic incidents in 2025 was on June 29, with 26 incidents reported.

This was the day after a performance by punk duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury, during which rapper Bobby Vylan chanted "Death, death to the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)".

The controversial set was live-streamed by the BBC, drawing fury from across the political spectrum.

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick blasted at the time how "the BBC's producers would have known about Bob Vylan's hate-filled lyrics".

The CST said the incidents involved anti-Jewish responses to events at Glastonbury, as well as to the charity's subsequent statement on social media branding the chants "utterly chilling".

The charity added that sentiment towards Israel is influencing and driving modern antisemitic discourse.

In a similar vein, the second-worst day for "Jewish hate", according to the CST, was May 17.

This day, on which 19 incidents were recorded, was a day after Israel announced the expansion of their military operation in Gaza.

GETTY | Bob Vylan at Glastonbury

The CST said: "Both of these cases illustrate how sentiment and rhetoric towards Israel and Zionism influence, shape and drive contemporary anti-Jewish discourse, online and offline, often around totemic events that grab mainstream public attention."

The organisation added that just over half (51 per cent) of all reports in the first half of this year "referenced or were linked to Israel, Palestine, the [October 7] Hamas terror attack or the subsequent outbreak of conflict".

There were a total of 1,521 antisemitic incidents across the UK in the first half of 2025, according to CST figures.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper warned how antisemitic crimes "remain shamefully and persistently high" - while the CST said Jewish communities are facing "extreme levels of Jew-hatred, committed in the name of anti-Israel activism".

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Cooper added that antisemitism "has a profoundly damaging impact both on the individuals affected and the wider Jewish community".

She said the Government "remains steadfast in its commitment to root out the poison of antisemitism wherever it is found".

The CST's chief executive Mark Gardner said: "We thank those politicians and police officers who have supported out community, especially when Jew-hatred is effectively sanctioned in so many spaces that falsely claim to oppose all forms of racism."

Discussing the range of incidents reported, he added: "It involves racial hatred, yelled at Jewish schoolchildren, scrawled on synagogue walls and thrown at anyone who is Jewish - or suspected of being Jewish."

Throughout the first six months of the year, 76 violent anti-Jewish assaults were recorded by the charity, including three categorised as "extreme violence" which resulted in either grievous bodily harm or a threat to life.

The charity also noted 84 cases of damage and desecration of Jewish property, as well as 21 incidents of mass-produced antisemitic literature.

Lord Mann, the Government's independent adviser on antisemitism, said: "Antisemitism must be recognised by everyone as anti-Jewish racism and there must be a no tolerance approach to it across civil society as all levels."

Avon and Somerset Police has said it is continuing inquiries in relation to the comments made on-stage during the Bob Vylan Glastonbury set.