Anti-Semitism has been normalised in middle-class Britain, a Government-
backed report has found.
The review warned that Jewish people in the UK were suffering increasing
prejudice “in our professions, cultural life [and] public services” and felt they
were “tolerated rather than being respected”.
The report found anti-Semitism to be
pervasive in the NHS, at universities and in the arts.
The inconsistent policing of hate crimes against Jews, including at pro-
Palestine protests, was also highlighted.
The review was co-authored by Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-Semitism
adviser, and Dame Penny Mordaunt, the former defence secretary.
Writing in The Telegraph, they said they had been “stunned into silence” by
the evidence gathered during six months of research for the Commission on
Anti-Semitism.
Among 10 recommendations made in their report, which will be published on
Tuesday and considered by the Government, are recognising Judaism as an ethnicity
The co-authors said that British Jews were often “held responsible for the
actions of the Israeli government”, which are frequently the subject of pro-
Palestine protests.
“From evidence that we heard, we can identify that there is a specific
unaddressed issue of anti-Semitism within the NHS,” they wrote.
The education sector was also criticised in the report for allowing the spread
of anti-Semitism on university campuses and in primary school classrooms.
Artists ‘cancelled because of their heritage’
The report found there was “almost nowhere” that British Jews could turn
“where anti-Semitism does not seem present in some form”
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