Yeshiva World News, July 16, 2025
“This is about applying the same protections to Jews that are rightly afforded to other vulnerable groups. If we can’t get that right, then what does equality even mean?”
A new report released Tuesday by the Board of Deputies of British Jews paints a troubling picture of rising antisemitism across the UK’s civil society, with Jewish communities increasingly feeling isolated, unprotected, and unwelcome in mainstream public institutions. The report, compiled by the board’s Commission on Antisemitism, warns that Jews in the UK now feel they have “nowhere to turn” outside of their own community—a development it describes as deeply corrosive to both individual well-being and national cohesion.
Based on months of testimony from Jewish professionals, students, advocacy groups, and staff networks, the report finds what it calls a “specific unaddressed issue of antisemitism” in key sectors of British society—including the National Health Service, professional associations, unions, and cultural institutions. Co-chaired by Labour’s Independent Adviser on Antisemitism, Lord John Mann, and Conservative MP Dame Penny Mordaunt, the report identifies a pattern of tolerance, rather than respect, toward Jews—an erosion of inclusion that has intensified since the Hamas-led October 7th terror attacks in Israel.
“October 7 brought to the surface problems that had long festered beneath,” Mann and Mordaunt wrote. “The Jewish way of life and the well-being of Jewish individuals and families in Britain is being increasingly challenged and undermined.” They cited a surge in antisemitic hatred that followed the attack—not just on social media and in street protests, but inside schools, universities, workplaces, and even hospitals. ….SOURCE