Rising anti swmtism in the UK....do we really need to crack down I n the Iran regime Hamas supporting mobs?

It's not a competition but if it was, Jewish people would "win" for having the highest religious hate crimes rate per 10,000 population.

Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025
Published 9 October 2025

Jewish victims: 106/10000
Muslim victims: 12/10000

Obviously the figures are a little out of date now. The UK recorded the biggest rise in antisemitic incidents last year of any country with a major Jewish population outside Israel, according to a new report.

The report, published by the J7 Large Communities' Task Force Against Antisemitism found that 2025 had been the deadliest year for Jews living outside Israel in more than three decades.

It found that antisemitism in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and the US – which together are home to more than 90% of the world's Jewish population outside Israel – remained at record levels.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd240eelmo

Not sadly telling. You over exaggerated the facts. Muslim places now have to be protected too due to hate crimes. Let’s be honest.

The attempt to distract and deflect this thread with "what about Islamophobic attacks" is sadly telling.

So let's look at the statistics:
As a Jew you are nearly 10 times more likely to suffer a hate crime than as a Muslim:
Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes: 106 offenses per 10,000 Jewish
population (the highest rate for any monitored religious group).

Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes: 12 offenses per 10,000 Muslim population.

Secondly as a Jew only 3.8% of recorded antisemitic offences led to a charge or summons.
Whereas approximately 6.7% of recorded anti-Muslim hate crimes resulted in a prosecution, leaving cases involving Muslim victims roughly 76% more likely to result in court action than those involving Jewish victims

The business I work for has an arm that provides security and after the social media sh*t storm after the awful Southport attacks in 2024 had to provide emergency security at Muslim schools and places of worship.

While there are definitely people planning to attack Jewish sites, and security is needed for that reason, I think it's far easier for someone to use social media to raise a mob against Muslim people. Yes, I have absolutely sat in synagogue and wondered what I'd do and how I'd get out if there were a terror attack. But I don't have to worry that someone on X is going to rustle up a mob to a harass and intimidate us, because there's no popular appetite for that anywhere.

And before anyone says it, Palestine solidarity marches are not 'a mob against Jewish people' - the police (not the organisers) routed that march on a road parallel to a road with a synagogue, along a standard large protest route, and no one broke off from that march to harass or intimidate any shulgoers (because we certainly would have heard about it if they had).

The police have not had to be called to prevent attendees from harming any Jewish people - the only time there was a confrontation was when some guys from the pro Israel counter protest, against police restrictions, came to part of the march to try to make a scene with participants.

There are lots of Jewish people living in the UK who go and serve in the IDF then return to the U.K.

It this kind of unsubstantiated and ignorant statement which fans the flames of prejudice.

It lumps Jewish people living in the UK together as thought they are all the same. So offensive.

Actually 80% are British, with some families resident for generations. The majority of the rest were born elsewhere in Europe, or the Middle East, and a small percentage elsewhere.

The proportion of Israelis in the UK are just 0.04%. Remember that not all Israelis are Jewish. It’s understandable that many Israelis have served in the IDF because Israel has compulsory military service.

Not quite true. From the BBC:

More than £117m will be spent to protect mosques, Muslim schools and community centres in the UK from hate attacks over the next four years, the government says.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said the investment would give "reassurance and confidence" to British Muslims.
It will be spent on measures including CCTV cameras, alarms and fencing.

Jewish schools and synagogues now need security fencing and police guards, Muslim schools and mosques do not.

1 in 5 students now say that they would have an issue sharing a house with a Jewish person.

Court case for antisemitic attack

https://www.cps.gov.uk/london-north/news/woman-convicted-antisemitic-attack-outside-jewish-secondary-school-north-london

Thank you @Jillybox x

I don't care what's going on in the middle east (and in half middle eastern): the antisemitism problem in the UK is horrendous and has to be aggressively tackled.

Makes me ashamed to be British.

Yes, antisemitism is thoroughly institutionalised in the arts IME. It’s really disturbing.

It makes me very upset. My poor dgps escaped from Eastern European countries last century

Islamophobia is much more thoroughly institutional than the antisemitism.

Sorry to disagree with you @Echobelly but this just isn't true. The government appears powerless to prevent the rise in antisemitism since 7/10/23. It has got even worse this year with the ambulances set on fire and four London synagogues targeted last week, too.
Other posters have detailed on MN how their children are regularly targeted in school and there is no doubt that universities are making Jewish students lives a complete and utter misery. If teachers and tutors who have young people's minds in their hands are subtly and not so subtly targeting their Jewish students, how much more 'thoroughly institutionalised' can it get?

Not sure I agree. Antisemitism is thoroughly institutionalised in universities and the art world and in parts of the political world too. I agree Reform politicians are using antisemitism to jusrltify islamaphobia and there are undoubtedly antisemites in Reform and on the right more generally. Of course there are. Its the horseshoe theory. If we get a Green government we will certainly have antisemites in power too.

Oh no how’s that happened.

Not sure about your first sentence (but of course it's your opinion so valid).

Definitely do agree with your last sentence though that ultimately, "we all need to concerned about both Islamophobia and antisemitism and fight them for everyone's sake".

Who wants to live in a racist society? I don't but unfortunately it feels like it's getting more not less racist in the UK.

As a Jew I'd say I'm more alarmed by the Islamophobia than then antisemitism because the Islamophobia is much more thoroughly institutional than the antisemitism. Mainstream politicians and media are frequently and openly Islamophobic. If we get a Reform government we will have a openly Islamophobic government and I worry about the immediate impact of that on British Muslims, and, downriver from that the effect on Jews.

A Reform government would mean more antisemites in power but at the moment we are too useful to them as a justification for Islamophobia. It would take some time for them to work their way down to us, but we're on the list to blame when things don't go to plan. They're not going to campaign on a front of antisemitism, but they'd 100% use it if it becomes a useful tool.

Ultimately, we all need to concerned about both Islamophobia and antisemitism and fight them for everyone's sake.

I agree that the rise of Islamophobia is alarming , but I am struggling to see why you think this is "far more alarming " than anti semetic attacks on Jews.

Is this perhaps because you think that attacks on Jews matter less than attacks on Muslims? Or if not please explain why you think that attacks on Muslims are "far more alarming " than attacks on Jews.

Why is it more alarming?

Your comment that British Jews ‘centre themselves’ is a remarkable one.

Your post stands as a nice example of the weaselly antisemitism of the left in Britain today, and indeed the circular arguments of antisemitism since time immemorial. Victim of antisemitism? Afraid for your community and wider society? Better not say anything about it - that proves you’re a typical self-centred Jew, not a victim of antisemitism at all. Maybe you just have a ‘perception’ of not being safe. There is no threat to Jews! And if there is, well it’s their own fault (as usual).

When Jewish people talking about antisemitism is more of a problem for you than the antisemitism itself, maybe you should take a step back and think about what you are saying.

Exactly. I am involved in interfaith work. When visiting a church there is no security. When visiting a mosque there is none other than a security guard. When visiting a synagogue the security is extensive. The Jewish cultural centre JW3 revealed recently they spend 600k a year on security, which I expect will have increased in the light of the heightened threat recently which involves state-sponsored surveillance and fire bombings. The figures quoted above were for year ending March 2025. We have seen an increase in antisemitic incidents since.

You miss the point that Muslims do not need the security that the Jewish Community does - I've yet to see any mosque or place of Islamic education or community or business needing 24/7 protection as synagogues, Jewish schools, community hubs and businesses do. No other ethnicity, race or religion other than Jewish needs this amount of security.
There are approximately 6 million Muslims in the UK (6%) 2021 Consensus
By contrast there are fewer than 300,000 Jews (0.5%) 2021 Consensus - the 5th largest Jewish population in the world - in other words, a tiny minority. And yes if you seriously believe that the British Jewish community is not under threat then perhaps you are being antisemitic.
For those who still don't get it - British Jews are not responsible for what the Israeli Government does.

Also that MN allow the comment to remain.

I think they are both alarming, one is not more alarming than the other.

In what way? Quantify it. What is it that the media isn't covering? The Jewish population is tiny. The surge in antisemitism is affecting almost all practising Jews not just in terms of actual attacks - murder, fire bombings and abuse but the shrinking of opportunities in public life, in colleges & workplaces, in culture and the arts.