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The latest figures from the Home Office show that religious hate crime recorded by the police in England and Wales has increased by 25% in the last year. The majority of hate crime offences recorded, approximately 70%, were motivated by race. The rise in religious hate crimes has mainly been driven by a rise in anti-Semitic incidents, with hate crimes against Jewish people having more than doubled and incidents against Muslims up by 13% over 12 months.
According to recent figures recorded by community groups, as opposed to the police, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia had both reached peak levels up to the end of September. The 25% increase in religious hate crime was driven by the Israel-Hamas conflict and is the highest annual count since the Home Office started keeping data in March 2012.
The number of hate crimes against Muslims increased to 3,866, up by 13% compared to the previous year’s figure of 3,432, while 38% of religious hate crimes were targeted at Muslims. The figures revealed a decline in the overall number of hate crimes of 5%, while religious hate crimes have gone up. Despite an 18% fall in disability hate crimes and hate crimes towards people for their sexual orientation having fallen by 8%, race is still by far the most common motivation for hate crimes; in 12 months, 98,799 race hate crimes were recorded.
The executive director of anti-racism network Football Against Racism in Europe, Piara Powar, said the rise in hate crimes was proportional to the state’s “failure” to tackle racism. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, called the rise in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic crimes “appalling,” and promised that the government would work tirelessly to tackle this “toxic hatred wherever it was found.”
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