Jews in England and Wales are nine times likelier to be victims of hate crime than Muslims, according to a Telegraph analysis of newly released Home Office figures.
Jews suffered hate crimes at a rate of 116.5 per 10,000 people in the 12 months up to March this year, compared with 13.3 per 10,000 for Muslims.
Recorded hate crime rose by 7 per cent overall, with 146,825 crimes logged. Religious hate crime was up by 13 per cent to 11,419 offences and race hate crimes up by 9 per cent to 107,926 offences.
Religious hate crimes targeting Muslims increased by 15 per cent from 4,479 to 5,132, while crimes against Jews were up by 10 per cent year on year from 2,874 to 3,162.
Hate crimes against Jewish people were - when data from the Met, which has changed its reporting system, was excluded - at their second highest level on record.
The Home Office said hate crimes against Jewish people spiked in October 2025 “following a series of antisemitic crimes after the Heaton Park Synagogue terror attack and have been at an elevated level since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict”.
The Community Security Trust (CST), which monitors antisemitism and publishes its own data on attacks, said the latest figures “show that antisemitic hate crime remains at an unacceptably high level”.
There is an “an urgent need to reduce the amount of incitement connected to conflict overseas”, the CST said, adding that “much more needs to be done across society to tackle this problem”.
The latest official Government data was published a day after a number of arrests were made at protests and demonstrations in London on the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
Overall, excluding the Met, there were 123,957 hate crimes recorded in total, a rise of seven per cent from 116,000 the previous year.
Excluding the Met, the 8,214 religious hate crime offences recorded in England and Wales were the highest annual total since records began in the year ending March 2012.
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