Despite the moral panic in the UK over "Islamophobia", the group that is subject to the most hate crimes per capita, at least in England and Wales, is Jews, with a whopping 106 religious hate crimes per 10,000 population (vs 12 for Muslims).
Naturally, there is all sorts of cope from Islamists, left wingers and other anti-Semites, including:
- Criticism is Israel is considered a hate crime, so the statistics are inflated
- Anti-semitism is overused
- A Jew reported this news, so it must be fake (too bad the UK government says exactly the same thing)
- Anti-genocide protests are classified as hate crimes
- "It's called "noticing"" or similar (which presumably means that Jews are evil so it's right to commit hate crimes against them)
- Mossad is responsible (presumably this means that they are all false flags)
- The Jews are responsible for mass migration of Muslims to the UK, so they deserve it
- Anti-semitism is good
- Netanyahu's Israel's crimes are responsible for anti-Semitism
- The definition of hate crimes is arbitrary
- The data is unreliable because it excludes met police data
- The data is unreliable because it is self-reported
- They don't live in the UK so they can't be victims
- Nobody cares
- Jews move like demons
- The numbers are too low
- *Anti-semitic memes*
There're too many (mostly bad faith) arguments to debunk, so I will just deal with one in particular - that this is misleading because it measures criticism of Israel (or similar speech).
In Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025: data tables, the Home Office helpfully provides a breakdown of the types of hate crimes recorded against Muslims and Jews. While their infographic gives a rough idea, the exact numbers are given in Bulletin Table 4: Proportion of religious hate crimes targeted against Jews and Muslims, by offence type, England and Wales, year ending March 2025 (in the ODS file).
The categories are:
Public fear, alarm or distress
Criminal damage and arson
Malicious communications
Assaults with and without injury
Stalking and harassment
Other
To zero in on the hate crimes involving physical actions (and thus cannot be dismissed as "criticism", whether of Israel or otherwise), we can narrow the categories down to "Criminal damage and arson" and "Assaults with and without injury"
17% of anti-Jewish hate crimes fall under "Criminal damage and arson" and 10% under "Assaults with and without injury". The corresponding numbers for Muslims are 7% and 18% respectively. So 27% of anti-Jewish hate crimes are physical, and 25% of anti-Muslim ones.
Applying these proportions to the raw number of hate crimes recorded against each group, we get 776 physical anti-Jewish hate crimes and 1,120 anti-Muslim ones.
However, there were 271,000 Jewish people in England and Wales in the 2021 Census, while Muslims numbered 3.9 million.
So there were 28.6 physical anti-Jewish hate crimes per 10,000 population, and only 2.9 physical anti-Muslim hate crimesper 10,000. If anything, narrowing the focus down to physical hate crimes makes Jews look even more disproportionately targeted for hate crimes than Muslims.
Of course, some of the existing copes like Mossad being behind false flag hate crimes cannot be disproven by data, and new ones can be invented, like nefarious Jews lying about being victims, but anti-Semitism is a boundless force of nature, so I will not be attempting to address the other copes in this post.
