More than one in five Britons harbors or agrees with antisemitic views, a survey found. The numbers are the highest since similar studies began 10 years ago, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.
The findings come just before a national march by Jewish groups and their supporters in London on Sunday to protest “bigots and extremists” targeting Britain’s Jews.
The survey, conducted among a representative sample of British adults, found that 21% of the public supports four or more antisemitic statements, up from 16% last year. In 2021, that figure was 11%.
The number of British people holding antisemitic views has doubled in less than five years, to more than a fifth of the population.
The YouGov survey, commissioned by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), revealed that almost half of