A new report claims UK Christians are antisemitic. Is it accurate?

A Chosen People Ministries survey has claimed one third of British Christians endorse antisemitic tropes such as “The Jews talk too much about the Holocaust”. Sam Hailes looks at the research

The news has felt remarkably dark in recent days.

Earlier this week a man admitted shooting dead his mother and two siblings in Luton. Last week 1,000 women shared their stories of being raped, abused and harassed while serving in the British military. Meanwhile in Munich, a two year old and her mother have died, and many others injured after an Afghan asylum seeker drove his car into a crowd of people.

Turning one’s attention to the Middle East, the picture becomes perhaps even bleaker. Following the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7 2023, millions of Gazans have been displaced, injured and killed by Israeli bombing. Most recently, Hamas have been accused of murdering a 4 year-old child and a 9 month baby whom they’d taken hostage. The pictures of the hostage release ceremonies have (re)traumatised Jews and shocked the world.

Do stories of Jewish people being rounded up at gunpoint, falsely imprisoned and murdered by Islamist terrorists move you as much as the other tales of horror I’ve just outlined?

According to a recent survey, they may not.

That’s because a shocking proportion of Christians, apparently hold antisemitic views.

Chosen People Ministry’s survey of 2,000 British Christians was released at the weekend. It found that…