Britain’s counter-extremism strategy is failing to address extreme antisemitism, according to the independent review of the Prevent programme.
William Shawcross said he was “disturbed by the prevalence” of hatred towards Jews among people referred to Prevent, a programme which aims to stop people becoming terrorists.
He said those who referred individuals to Prevent and staff carrying out Prevent programmes did not understand antisemitism sufficiently and were failing to tackle it as a growing extremist threat.
He added that more needed to be done to address the anti-Jewish components of Islamist and extreme right-wing ideology. Antisemitism was uniting Islamist extremists and the far right wing in “a kind of modern-day Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact,” Shawcross said.
