- Home Office figures reveal that hate crime incidents in England and Wales increased by seven per cent in the year to March 2026, with a total of 146,825 offences recorded by police forces.
- Targeted offences against Muslim victims rose by 15 per cent to 5,132, with notable spikes coinciding with far-right demonstrations in September 2025 and the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict in February.
- Antisemitic hate crimes increased by 10 per cent to 3,162 incidents, experiencing a surge in October 2025 following the Heaton Park Synagogue terror attack amidst ongoing regional tensions from the Israel-Hamas conflict.
- Regional data highlights that London accounted for the vast majority of racially motivated incidents with 20,753 recorded cases, followed by Manchester , the West Midlands , and West Yorkshire .
- Human rights organisations and community monitoring groups, including Amnesty International UK , the British Muslim Trust, and the Community Security Trust, have called for immediate government action and increased resources to combat the escalating violence which is “becoming a day-to-day reality across the UK”.
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Spike in anti-muslim and antisemitic incidents as hate crime hits record high
