The Government has published its much-awaited plan for tackling antisemitism following the Manchester terrorist attack on a synagogue on Yom Kippur.
The plan can be found here.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “This is a very disappointing document which does not rise to the gravity of the situation that we find ourselves in after over a decade of inaction by successive governments. This document does not even refer to proscribing terrorist organisations that operate freely here in the UK, which was a manifesto promise that the Government seems to have quietly dropped since it was elected.
“As the UK’s only dedicated antisemitism campaigning charity, we suspect that we were not consulted by the Government because it would not like our answers. Extremism and radicalisation have been allowed to take hold to such an extent in this country that the medicine will not be easy to swallow. Tackling problems such as rampant Islamism and two-tier policing requires a recognition that these problems actually exist.
“Instead of addressing these thorny issues, this document simply reheats meek policy proposals, some of which date back years to the previous administration, and there are no measures to address extremism in areas that it has newly taken hold. This is not an abstract debate about policy. People are dead and it will take more than well-meaning ideas like an ‘innovation fund’ to turn things around.”
