UK’s Jewish community feels much less safe since 7 October attack, survey finds | Antisemitism
According to the greatest research of British Jews since October 7, 2023, the security feelings in the Jewish community of England have declined sharply in the last few years.
In June and July, the study found that 35% of Jews felt insecure in the UK in 2025 and 9% in 2023 before the Hamas attacks.
The perceptions of anti -Semitism were also intensified, 47% of the British Jews saw this as a “very big” problem than 11% in 2012.
The research conducted by the Institute of Jewish Policy Studies (JPR) reported that 32% of Jews had at least one anti -Semitic event in 2024.
Meanwhile, Community Security Trust (CST), which has been following anti-Semitic events since 1994, recorded 1,521 cases in England between 2025, January-June 2025. This was in the first half of any year, until the first six months of 2024, the second highest total recorded by only 2,019 as a laborious 7 October.
This year, 968 of the 1,521 anti -Semitic cases occurred in the Great London and Great Manchester, two of them with the largest Jewish population.
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He found that emotional commitment to Israel has increased – 75% of the British Jews feel emotionally dependent and 49% feel “very bound ,, 72% and 40%, just before the October 7 attacks.
However, “anti-ionist identity çıktı found that the 20-29-year-old children described as an anti-ionist in 2022, especially among young Jews, increased from 8% to 8% in 2025 in 2022, especially in 2025, and an increase from 13% in 2022.
While “Zionist identity” remained stable by 64%, the critique of Israel’s behavior in Gaza grew as it said that 51% of it clashed with Jewish values and rose from 40% in 2024.
General Manager of JPR. “I am particularly impressed by the wide flexibility of the British Jews – despite the important political and emotional turmoil that surrounds them, their participation in their Jewish and Jewish life continues to deteriorate to a great extent.
“This is not to argue that war and echoes do not leave the traces – many Jews feel less safe, more isolated and more morally conflicting.”
CST, the latest data after October 7 “long -term conflict”, including the scope of media, political discourse and public discourse, including “continuous levels of anti -Semitism in England, he said.
“This effect is open to the fact that 51% of the total total is referenced or linked to Israel, Gaza, Hamas terrorist attack or subsequent conflicts, Cst he added.
“703 Anti-Zionist proved political motivation… In addition to anti-Semitic interpretations or abuse, the terms of ‘Zionist’ or ‘Zionism’ were used in 210 cases, while the criminal made a direct comparison between Israel and the Nazis 172 times.”
In the first half of 2025, he saw at least 200 events every month. The highest monthly in the first half of 2025 came in the total June in June, and with 326 incidents, a rise in the Israeli military operation in Gaza and the war between Israel and Iran.
