Mick Hartley

From the Times – Muslim hate crimes twice as likely to be prosecuted as those against Jews:

Hate crimes against Muslims are almost twice as likely to result in prosecution than those against Jews, figures have revealed for the first time.

The rate of the offences targeting Muslims that resulted in a charge or summons was 6.7 per cent in the year to March 2025, equivalent to one in 15 offences recorded by the police.

However, just 3.8 per cent of anti-Jewish hate crimes led to a charge or summons in the same 12-month period, which was one in 26.

It meant that Muslim victims were 76 per cent more likely to see their perpetrator prosecuted than Jewish victims of hate crimes.…

Separate statistics published annually by the Home Office show Jewish people are almost ten times more likely to be victims of religious hate crimes. There were 106 religious hate crimes per 10,000 population targeted at Jewish people compared with 12 per 10,000 of population targeting Muslims.

Fiyaz Mughal, founder of the Tell Mama organisation that monitors anti-Muslim hate, said the discrepancy between charging rates for anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hatred was likely to widen following the government’s introduction of an official definition of anti-Muslim hostility.

So hate crimes against Jews are, per head of population, much greater than against Muslims, but are much less likely to result in prosecution.

Partly, perhaps, it’s that old racism line: Muslims are seen as brown and therefore in need of protection, while Jews are seen as white and part of the oppressor class. But yes, there’s more going on here than that…