Antisemitism in the workplace

Despite the increasing awareness in society of the need to identify and counter racism, and efforts to educate people regarding societal treatment of the Jewish people, antisemitism remains pervasive in British society today. The Community Security Trust (CST) recorded 1,668 antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2020, the third-highest total it has ever recorded in a single calendar year. In a further damning insight, a survey from 2020 reported that, as a result of antisemitism:

• 44 per cent of British Jews do not display visible signs of their faith in public – the highest figure recorded since 2016; and
• for the third year in a row, over 1 in 4 have considered leaving the UK in the past two years

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