An analysis by Campaign Against Antisemitism of new Home Office statistics shows that Jews are almost nine times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group.
Police forces across the country record hate crimes against Jews as religious hate crimes, and these records show that in the year 2025/26, 3,162 hate crimes were committed against Jews, making Jews the target in 27% – almost one in three – of the total number of religious hate crimes, despite being only half a percent of the national population.
The number of hate crimes targeting Jews rose ten percent compared to last year (although last year’s figures omitted data from the Metropolitan Police Service, making year on year comparisons more difficult).
These figures mean that there is an average of just under nine hate crimes directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales. Hate crimes against Jews are also still widely believed to be under-reported, and also do not reflect the extent of antisemitic material and abuse on social media.
However, when one accounts for the miniscule size of the Jewish population, it emerges that Jews are statistically almost nine times more likely to be the targets of hate crimes than any other religious group, with some 1,170 hate crimes per 100,000 of the Jewish population in 2024/25.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “Antisemites, emboldened by the Hamas terrorist atrocity three years ago, are not only not letting up in their hatred but are doubling down. That’s because there is no real deterrent. So really these figures are most damning for the criminal justice system, which has utterly failed to defend British Jews. Even as conflict in the Middle East is easing off, antisemitism in the UK is rising, yet there have been essentially no changes in policing policy over the past three years and nobody has been held to account for this monumental failure. The Jewish community has understandably lost confidence in the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police – the most senior officer in the land – and he needs to go. He must finally be replaced by someone who actually grasps the scale and urgency of the crisis.”
