UK’s ‘Permissive Environment’ Leads to Anti-Semitism, Warns Extremism Tsar

A UK counter-extremism reported a 581 percent increase in antisemitic incidents on British streets since the Hamas attack.

Jewish men walk along the street in the Stamford Hill area of north London on Jan. 19, 2011. Oli Scarff/Getty Images

There is a “permissive environment” in the UK that has enabled anti-Israel extremism and antisemitism, the UK’s counter-extremism commissioner has said.

Robin Simcox, who took on a position in the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in July, said that the safety of Jewish people in Britain has been compromised by a failed “policy mix of mass migration and multiculturalism.”