A new report into antisemitism in the UK has found widespread failures to address anti-Jewish discrimination including within the NHS, education, the arts and policing.
Commissioned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews – the country’s largest Jewish community organisation – the review was co-authored by Lord John Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism and former Conservative defence secretary Dame Penny Mordaunt.
It followed extensive evidence gathering from a range of institutions including the NHS, the police and the arts sector.
Lord Mann described hearing “shocking experiences” from Jewish individuals during the review process.
He said it was “unacceptable” there had been what he called an “onslaught of antisemitism” since the 7 October Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, in which approximately 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage.
In the months since, the Israeli military’s campaign in Gaza has resulted in at least 57,823 deaths, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
Lord Mann told BBC’s Today programme that ordinary Jewish men and women are “going about their everyday life particularly at work and suddenly being held to account for what’s happening in the Middle East in their workplace”.
He said people are being “ostracised” in the workplace “simply because they’re Jewish”.
He said antisemitism is “often missed off the agenda” in equality training, but he praised a recent programme in English football that successfully introduce
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