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Newly published data from the U.K. Home Office show that over the past year ending March 2026, of all religious hate crimes, there was a 15 percent rise in hate crimes targeted at Muslims and a 10 percent increase in those targeted at Jews

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Jews and Muslims were the religious groups most targeted by hate crimes in England and Wales in the year ending March 2026, with antisemitic offenses spiking after a terror attack on a Manchester synagogue last October and anti-Muslim offenses rising after the start of the U.S.-Iran war, according to U.K. Home Office data.