Tuesday, October 13, 2026
GUARDIAN, BBC BURY DATA SHOWING JEWS ARE MOST TARGETED RELIGIOUS GROUP
A poll in late 2025 showed that 96% of British Jews felt less safe than they did before Oct. 7, 2023, while more than half—59%—said they avoid displaying visible signs of their Jewish identity out of fear linked to antisemitism. Jewish attitudes are based on reality, as reportsby the CST continue to demonstrate record levels of antisemitic incidents in Britain:
The fact that Jews in Britain have, perversely, faced a tsunami of racism since Oct. 7, the worst antisemitic massacres since the Holocaust, is reinforced by a separate data set: a new report by the UK Home Office – coveredfirst by The Telegraph – revealing that Jews in England and Wales are, by far, the religious group most targeted by religious-based hate crimes, based on their share of their population.
In fact, Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be victims of hate crime, with Jews facing such crimes at a rate of 116 offences per 10,000 people last year, compared with 13 per 10,000 for Muslims.
The data encompassed the twelve months from March 2025 to March 2026.
Yet, many British media outlets erased this astonishing disparity, focusing instead on the percentage increase in hate crimes targeting Muslims from the previous year.
Typical was a report in the Guardian, “Racial and religious hate crimes at record high in England and Wales, data shows,” Oct. 8, which devoted 11 paragraphs to anti-Muslim hate crimes, with just two, at the end of the piece, devoted towards antisemitism. The extremely important context concerning how Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be targeted by hate crimes was omitted.
Similarly, the BBC (“Hate crime up by 7% in England and Wales, Home Office figures suggest,” Oct. 8) omitted the data demonstrating this astounding disparity, as did Sky News (“Race and religious hate crime in England and Wales hits record high”, Oct. 8).
Other than the Telegraph, the only other major outlet to note that Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be the victim of a religious hate crime was The Times, (“Hate crimes hit record in ‘stark warning’ over bigotry”, Oct. 8) in a piece that also included the graph shown above.
As the CST wrote on X in response to the Home Office’s report, “there is an urgent need to reduce the incitement connected to…events in the Middle East” which fuels antisemitism. Given that the Guardian, BBC and Sky Newscontinue to churn out misleading, inaccurate, and incendiary coverage about Israel, it’s not surprising that these outlets chose not to report on data demonstrating that Jews continue to be disproportionately targeted by the incitement that they help fuel.
The fact that Jews in Britain have, perversely, faced a tsunami of racism since Oct. 7, the worst antisemitic massacres since the Holocaust, is reinforced by a separate data set: a new report by the UK Home Office – coveredfirst by The Telegraph – revealing that Jews in England and Wales are, by far, the religious group most targeted by religious-based hate crimes, based on their share of their population.
In fact, Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be victims of hate crime, with Jews facing such crimes at a rate of 116 offences per 10,000 people last year, compared with 13 per 10,000 for Muslims.
The data encompassed the twelve months from March 2025 to March 2026.
Yet, many British media outlets erased this astonishing disparity, focusing instead on the percentage increase in hate crimes targeting Muslims from the previous year.
Typical was a report in the Guardian, “Racial and religious hate crimes at record high in England and Wales, data shows,” Oct. 8, which devoted 11 paragraphs to anti-Muslim hate crimes, with just two, at the end of the piece, devoted towards antisemitism. The extremely important context concerning how Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be targeted by hate crimes was omitted.
Similarly, the BBC (“Hate crime up by 7% in England and Wales, Home Office figures suggest,” Oct. 8) omitted the data demonstrating this astounding disparity, as did Sky News (“Race and religious hate crime in England and Wales hits record high”, Oct. 8).
Other than the Telegraph, the only other major outlet to note that Jews are nine times more likely than Muslims to be the victim of a religious hate crime was The Times, (“Hate crimes hit record in ‘stark warning’ over bigotry”, Oct. 8) in a piece that also included the graph shown above.
As the CST wrote on X in response to the Home Office’s report, “there is an urgent need to reduce the incitement connected to…events in the Middle East” which fuels antisemitism. Given that the Guardian, BBC and Sky Newscontinue to churn out misleading, inaccurate, and incendiary coverage about Israel, it’s not surprising that these outlets chose not to report on data demonstrating that Jews continue to be disproportionately targeted by the incitement that they help fuel.
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