Jewish people are nine times more likely than Muslims to be victims of hate crime, Home Office data show.
The figures reveal that Jewish people faced hate crimes at a rate of 116.5 offences per 10,000 people last year, compared with 13.3 per 10,000 for Muslims.
Official data also show that racially and religiously motivated hate crime recorded by police hit record highs.
Religious hate crimes targeting Jewish people were up by 10 per cent from the year before, to 3,162, while crimes against Muslims rose by 15 per cent, to 5,132.
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Anti-Semitic hate peaked in October last year, the month in which two members of the Jewish community were killed in the Manchester synagogue terror attack.
Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed when Jihad al-Shamie drove into the gates of the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester on Oct 2, and launched a knife attack while wearing a fake suicide belt.
There were 274 incidents in that month, the second anniversary of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel.
A series of anti-Semitic attacks followed in the months afterwards, including an arson attack on four Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green, north London, in March.
The figures show that 45 per cent of anti-Semitic attacks caused “public fear, alarm or distress”, while 17 per cent related to criminal damage, 11 per cent to malicious communications and 9 per cent to physical assault.
The Community Security
Trust (CST), which monitors anti-Semitism and publishes its own data on attacks, said the latest figures “show that anti-Semitic hate crime remains at an unacceptably high level”.
The organisation said there was “an urgent need to reduce the amount of incitement connected to conflict overseas”, adding that “much more needs to be done across society to tackle this problem”.
The latest Home Office data were published a day after a number of arrests were made at protests and demonstrations in London on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks.
These included arrests for inciting racial hatred, involving allegedly shouting or chanting slogans calling for intifada, in what the Metropolitan Police described as a “spontaneous protest” outside the office of the Board of Deputies of British Jews in Camden, north London.
These are not included in the latest data, which cover only the 12 months to March.
Police recorded a total of 146,825 hate crimes in England and Wales between March 2025 and March this year.
Religious hate crime rose by 13 per cent from the previous 12 months. Racial hate crimes accounted for around two-thirds of the total, rising 9 per cent from the previous year.
Sharp jumps in offences against Muslims occurred in September, which the Home Office said coincided with protests and public disorder, and then after the US and Israel went to war with Iran this March.
The government-funded British Muslim
Trust said it had tracked and verified 78 attacks and incidents at Muslim places of worship in the 12 months to July, including vandalism and intimidation.