Tackling Anti-Jewish Hatred
Visible. Equal. Protected. Tackling Anti-Jewish racism through human rights
Anti–Jewish hatred in the UK is rising and changing, appearing in public services, civic spaces, political discourse and everyday life. Jewish identity is often misunderstood, treated as only religious rather than also ethnic, making discrimination harder to identify and address. Data gaps across the NHS, local authorities, and regulators mean Jewish needs and experiences too often remain invisible.
Our campaign puts human rights – a framework shaped by Jewish experience and Jewish values – at the centre of tackling anti-Jewish hatred in the UK. From strengthening community capacity to improving how institutions identify anti-Jewish racism, to celebrating Jewishness as a visible and valued part of British life, this campaign brings together our existing strengths:
- The Jewish Everyday Rights Forum (JERF), which documents lived experience and rights barriers
- Our Embedding Human Rights in Practice programme, which trains organisations to use the Human Rights Act to protect dignity and fairness in daily life
- Our role in human rights-based advocacy is rooted in Jewish values and Jewish history.
This campaign reframes anti-Jewish hatred as what it fundamentally is: a human rights issue.
Three Campaign Pillars:
1. Empower the Jewish community to use human rights tools to challenge anti-Jewish racism
- We will give Jewish organisations, leaders, professionals and volunteers the tools to identify and challenge anti–Jewish racism in health, housing, education and public services.
- Expand rights–based training and provide guidance on using the Equality Act and Human Rights Act to challenge discrimination.
- Launch a Jewish Community human rights toolkit.
- This ensures Jewish people and organisations can confidently defend their rights and the rights of those they support.
2. Ensure public institutions properly identify, record and respond to anti–Jewish racism
Jewish experiences too often disappear in public systems because Jewish ethnicity is not recorded, understood or acted upon.
We will work with partners, statutory bodies and civil society organisations to:
- Improve recognition of Jewish ethnic identity
- Advocate for a “Jewish” ethnicity category in national and local data collection
- Push regulators to address antisemitism complaints fairly and transparently (e.g. GMC failures)
- Provide clear indicators of anti-Jewish racism for public sector use
When public bodies understand the problem, they can act effectively.
3. Celebrate Jewishness as a valued part of British life, through a human rights framing Jewish identity should be safe, visible, joyful and fully part of Britain’s rights-respecting democracy.
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- Celebrate the Jewish contribution to human rights, and the role Jewish values play in promoting dignity, justice and equality for all communities
- Challenge narratives that hide or problematise Jewish visibility
- Support public Jewish cultural, civic and celebratory events
- Promote cross-community solidarity and shared human rights values
This strengthens social cohesion and pushes back against the “conditional belonging” Jewish people increasingly experience.
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