7 per cent of British adults do not believe that Israel has a right to defend itself against those who want to destroy it, and that figure doubles to 14 per cent among the youngest demographic. 14 percent of Britons said they are not comfortable spending time with people who openly support Israel and, among 18-24 year olds, that figure rises to 21% – more than one fifth of the young population.
A CAA spokesperson said: “The rhetoric that we are seeing online, on television and on our streets is radicalising the British public, but it is the rates of antisemitism that we have discovered among 18–24-year-olds that are most frightening.
“On the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, our country needs an urgent rethink about how we teach about antisemitism. If young people cannot see the relationship between the genocidal antisemitism of the Nazis and the genocidal antisemitism of Hamas, and, worse still, refuse to talk about how our attitudes towards Israel and its supporters are influenced by antisemitic prejudice, then we are clearly not talking about antisemitism properly.
“Our education is failing the next generation, and our society is suffering as a result. It is British Jews who are paying the price.”
