Will antisemitism ever be looked at and dealt with in the same way as Islamophobia is?

[LucyWestenra]

AIBU for thinking it won’t? Because it doesn’t seem to be the case in this country or my home country (Germany).

(I just googled because it didn’t seem right to have antisemitism in lower capitals, but apparently that is correct, as I thought)

Much love to the Jewish community, wherever they are.

❤️

Can you pinpoint anything anyone has said in this thread that you think suggests they are antisemitic?

Can you give us some specific examples of antisemitism you have witnessed and how they were dealt with?

Can you explain how you feel that antisemitism and islamophobia are dealt with/viewed differently?

I think a bit more context would be really useful.

How about the fact that the government in this country are going to appoint an anti Muslim hostility tsar, but no Jewish counterpart?

Is this enough for a start?

Not this again, it’s so bloody tedious.
It’s not you or them.
Stop trying to drum up being a victim and just concentrate on having a happy life. You only get one.

I know I shouldn’t even comment because it’s fucking pointless but honestly.,,if it’s tedious to you, just don’t fucking comment!

It’s not hard!

There are many Jews in this country and my home country who feel intimated/ persecuted/ harassed and I don’t think that’s right in 2026.

So if you don’t want to comment or think Jewish people deserve the abuse, then just stay away.

It’s not fucking difficult.

I’m sorry, but I’m really starting to get pissed off here.

But there aren’t just two groups in the UK. Is having an anti muslim hostility tsar homophobic?

Ok, I give up.

The bigots and idiots can have this thread.

Have at it.

Ffs

You may not see this if you have genuinely flounced this time. There have been some pretty balanced comments on this thread from most. Some of the most bigoted I think have been from you.

https://www.reuters.com/world/jews-england-wales-suffer-highest-rate-religious-hate-crime-data-shows-2025-10-09/

So Jewish people do at least report being victims of hate crime significantly more in recent years. Even adjusting the figures for non reporting of crimes - apparently up to 80% of Muslims don't report hate crimes - it's a bleak picture for both Jews and Muslims right now.

I would assume Muslims are more likely to be victims of race-based hate crime as well as religious hate crime. I do feel that has a part to play. I'm not sure how helpful it is to conflate or compare the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_terrorism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

You could also argue that the response to the Munich Olympic attacks could be considered terrorism as they involved killing innocent people and blowing up hotels and offices in Europe.

I'm sorry if you had good intentions to post this, but please just stop because it os offensive. A race to the bottom of who is hated the most is just awful. Antisemitism and islamophobia are both skin crawlingly disgusting and not a reason for comparison. Both should be handled better. Im Jewish too. And I have lots of Muslim friends. All of this racism disgusts me.

OP I agree that people shouldn’t be persecuted or discriminated against for their religion. And I am sure Jewish people are not having a great time at the mos
nt. But ranting and swearing and accusing everyone trying to engage/ not ranting with you of antisemitism isn’t going convince anyone you are right. You say you want a forum to share what Jewish people are going through, but you aren’t really sharing anything other than accusing everyone of being complicit.

Statistics are disagreeing with you.

Figure 2.2: Number of religious hate crimes targeted against Jews and Muslims by month, year ending March 2025 (35 forces)

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025#:~:text=Race%20hate%20crime,March%202022%20(87%2C905%20offences).

Every bullet, bomb and missile fired by the IDF towards the Palestinian and Lebanese people is a terror attack if you’re indigenous to the region. Considering the current state of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, that’s going to be quite a long list of terror attacks.

Don't you think that plenty of us feel the same as you in that we’ve made peace with being called antisemictic if that’s what it takes to speak out against genocide in Palestine?

I swore I wasn’t going to come back to this thread, but yet here I am again.,,

Pray tell, how does this mean the average Jewish person is a terrorist?

I am still waiting.

Give me a list of atrocities perpetrated by Jewish people.

Start a post saying you are worried about the rise of antisemitism without bringing Islam into it and I'll engage positively.

I could talk about what I've personally done to challenge antisemitism, I could talk about why it's important to me. I could ask what British Jews would want to see others do to support them.

But that's not what you did. You started a post comparing Islamaphobia and antisemitism. People responded on that topic and you accused them of whataboutery and asked why antisemitism couldn't be raised without Islamaphobia being brought in. When it's in your thread title.

Noone has said anything antisemitic in this thread but you have repeatedly flounced about hate and apologised to Jewish people for having to put up with hateful threads like these. I'm sure you understand that, when people don't live near Jewish communities and don't see antisemitism in their own lives and then see people describing "please don't pit Muslims and Jews against each other" as vile hatred, they think you are making it up. I suspect that's deliberate.

You've also repeatedly said Islamaphobic things. Talking about Islamist alliances is no better than talking about Zionist alliances. Let's not make up global religious conspiracies. Justifying Islamaphobia by talking about terrorist attacks conducted by Muslims is no better than justifying antisemitism by talking about Israels actions in Gaza. People are not responsible for, or defined by, the actions of others who share their religion.

This false division is stoking antisemitism. Whether intentionally or not.

Is your suggestion that the average Muslim person is? Or what was the point of your question?

They are both terrible.

But I really don’t think that antisemitism is treated less seriously than Islamophobia.

I genuinely don’t think I have any axe
to grind - I respect both communities and totally abhor any kind of racism or discrimination- but if anything I think the reverse is true in the UK.

I must have missed the accusation that the average Jewish person is a terrorist.

You seem to be making the comparison that Muslims are terrorists though.

So what? Is Islamophobia not as bad as anti-Semitism because there have been Muslim terrorists? Why does it matter if there have been Jewish terrorists or not? I don't see the relevance of terrorists when deciding if racism is ok or not.

I've reported that post because that's how I read it too.

This whole thread was started from a position of hate.

The more I read the more I think the OP is simply ranting about antisemitism to “justify” their Islamophobia. I can’t speak for Jewish people, but if someone was using discrimination against me to justify the discrimination of others I’d be pretty pissed off.

But making this link IS antisemitic: nobody in London attacks Russian restaurants or Orthodox churches because of Ukraine, nor Chinese restaurants over China’s treatment of Uighurs and so on. Why should a synagogue in England be any more responsible for what the Israeli government does?

It was on response to OP challenging everyone to mention terrorist attacks carried out by Jewish people. As apparently terrorist attacks by Muslim people justifies Islamophobia.