One-third of Jewish adults in Britain said they suffered an antisemitic incident in the nine months following the October 7 attack, according to a new survey published by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR).
The figure marks a sharp jump from 2022, when just 23 per cent of the community experienced racism over the entire year.
The most common form of antisemitic incident experienced during Israel’s war against Hamas was a verbal attack, followed by online abuse and then discrimination at work.
While 82 per cent of Jews felt safe in the UK in May of last year, just 46 per cent said they did in November.
By June of this year the figure had risen to 61 per cent.
Women were less likely to say they felt safe than men, and Charedim more likely to feel vulnerable than other denominations.
According to the Community Security Trust (CST), antisemitism rose by 150 per cent from 2022 to 2023.
Incidents of antisemitism reported to the CST went up from 1,662 in 2022 to 4,103 last year.
But the numbers of incidents recorded in police or community statistics constitute significant undercounts, the JPR report – based on a sample of 4,500 British Jews – claims.
