{"id":538497,"date":"2026-07-13T01:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T01:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T01:26:06","slug":"uk-antisemitism-britain-boosts-jewish-community-security-with-police-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538497\/","title":{"rendered":"UK antisemitism: Britain boosts Jewish community security with police funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain will spend over \u00a3250 million ($335 million) across the next three years to better protect its Jewish communities<\/a>, the government said on Monday, following a series of recent antisemitic attacks.<\/p>\n

The funding will deliver over 500 additional officers across England<\/a> and Wales, boosting security in Jewish neighborhoods and around schools, synagogues and community centers, the government said.<\/p>\n

There has been a string of attacks on Jewish-linked sites in \u200bthe capital, including the torching of four Jewish community ambulances in March. In April, Britain raised its national terrorism \u200bthreat level to “severe” from “substantial” in response to an antisemitic stabbing attack in north London.<\/p>\n

The new package, which is on top of a \u00a325 million funding announcement following the stabbings in April, includes around 300 additional officers in London and around 80 in Greater Manchester – where a synagogue was attacked last year – alongside \u00a343 million for forces serving other areas with significant Jewish populations.<\/p>\n

“The rise in antisemitism we have seen in recent years is a test of our values as a country and tackling it has been central to my leadership from day one,” outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> said in Monday’s statement.<\/p>\n

London’s Metropolitan Police<\/a> is due to receive \u00a386 million from the new funding, while \u00a359 million was earmarked for counter-terrorism policing.<\/p>\n

Police will increase patrols at times of heightened vulnerability, offering visible reassurance and helping to deter hate crime and antisemitic incidents, the government said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain will spend over \u00a3250 million ($335 million) across the next three years to better protect its Jewish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[207493,111,5355,42230,97363,1903,1902,42,5357,2790,11730,43,40,38,41,39,1299],"class_list":["post-538497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-andy-burnham","tag-antisemitism","tag-britain","tag-british-jewry","tag-british-jews","tag-diaspora","tag-diaspora-jews","tag-headlines","tag-keir-starmer","tag-labour-antisemitism","tag-labour-party","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}