When confronted with overt prejudice in the UK, one would assume it is only directed at Islamic immigrants, but it appears that other non-Christian religions are feeling the brunt of this new, discriminatory world fuelled by Trump.

A recent report suggests that one in three British Jews has considered moving abroad in the past two years, reports Sky News:

One in six British Jews (17%) reported feeling unwelcome in Britain and over a third (37%) said they had felt the need to conceal their Judaism in public.

This information comes from a “large-scale study” by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) which surveyed around 4 000 members of the community during 2016 and 2017.

It found that “31% of British Jews had considered moving abroad, a rise from 28% during their last survey two years ago”, and that “some 65% of respondents said they believed the Government was not doing enough to protect them”.

Over four-fifths felt the Labour party is too tolerant of anti-Semitism.

However, a separate survey by YouGov – which was carried out for the CAA –  found that “anti-Semitic attitudes in UK society, measured by how many respondents agreed with seven anti-Semitic statements, were declining, with the number of people who agreed with at least one statement down from 45% in 2015 to 36% in 2017”.

CAA works to bring cases of anti-Semitism to justice and its chairman, Gideon Falter, told Sky News that:

We’ve got a very serious situation where on the one hand, British society is very effectively starting to shun anti-Semitism, but the institutions we rely on to protect our communities are not doing enough.

We’ve been talking about it for years and years. When are they going to wake up?

Earlier this year, the Community Security Trust, another organisation which monitors anti-Semitism, recorded “1 309 incidents of anti-Jewish hate last year, compared with 960 in 2015 – a rise of 36%”:

They included 107 violent assaults and 65 incidents of damage and desecration to Jewish property, as well as more than 1,000 incidents of abusive behaviour in person and on social media.

Not a good time for anyone who doesn’t conform to the stereotypical British identity, hey?

[source:sky]