Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog

Jonathan Hall calls for police forces to clamp down on racial hatred based on nationality

Israelis are being demonised as a “vehicle for hatred of Jews”, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said.

Jonathan Hall said police forces should be held responsible for failing to clamp down on the targeting of “Israeli citizens as well as Jews living among them”.

The KC’s comments were condemned by a pro-Palestine campaign group for a “conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism”.

In a speech at a Policy Exchange event in London, Hall said the targeting of a nationality such as Israelis must be recognised as a breach of the Public Order Act of 1986.