Muslim Anti-Semitism in Modern Britain – New Research By Rakib Ehsan
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Dear friends,
I am delighted to launch HJS’ latest work on the scourge of anti-Semitism in the UK, authored by Dr Rakib Ehsan. We have focussed specifically on anti-Semitism within the Muslim community. Sadly, the results are by no means reassuring.
The research finds that 44% of British Muslims admit to believing that British Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the UK – a common form of anti-Semitism. Just 13% could bring themselves to say that Jews were more loyal to the UK than Israel.
These shocking findings are not limited to so-called ‘dual loyalty’. More British Muslims believe that Jews have too much control over the global banking system (34%) than do not (23%). The same is true for politics, entertainment, the arms industry, and the media.
There is no category of enterprise, that we polled, in which more British Muslims disagreed with the statement that Jews had too much control than agreed with it. Similar polling of the public at large reveals that these levels of belief are far in excess of the wider population’s views.
Perhaps, equally troubling is that the level of belief in some anti-Semitic tropes are far higher amongst those Muslims who routinely attend mosque than amongst those who do so only rarely.
In a vindication for HJS’ longstanding work on university extremism, British Muslims with a university education are also more likely to admit to holding anti-Semitic beliefs.
Reassuringly, the research finds that one factor does dramatically reduce beliefs in anti-Semitic tropes amongst British Muslims – integration. Those Muslims who report having proportionally more close friends from non-Muslim backgrounds are less likely to hold anti-Semitic beliefs.
We’ve been pushing the Government to take integration seriously for years. We know that isolated communities in which many do not speak English are breeding grounds for these forms of social ills.
The research has been widely covered in the press, in recent days:
Yours sincerely,
Dr Alan Mendoza
Executive Director – Henry Jackson Society
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