Police in England and Wales recorded 7,164 religiously motivated hate crimes last year, according to an annual report released on Oct. 9 by the Home Office, the U.K. government’s interior ministry—one week after a domestic terror attack on Yom Kippur at a synagogue in Manchester, England.

This year’s report , which covers police-recorded hate-crime offenses from March 2024 to March 2025, reflected a 3% increase in hate crimes based on religious bias—the highest annual total of such offenses on record, the Home Office stated.

While religious hate crimes targeting Muslims saw a 19% increase year-over-year (from 2,690 to 3,199 incidents), the report found that hate crimes targeting Jews fell 18% (from 2,093 to 1,715 incidents)

“Caution is needed with these figures as they exclude the M

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