(Jewish News) The government’s anti-terror programme is not doing enough to “understand and tackle antisemitism,” a new report has concluded.
The findings of former Charity Commission chairman William Shawcross’s long-awaited report into the Prevent programme included claims by the author he was “disturbed by the prevalence of antisemitism.”
In so-called Channel cases he observed — which referred to people in the programme who are considered most at risk of becoming radicalised and turning to terrorism — Shawcross wrote of “the prevalence of extreme antisemitism.”
The author, who has previously been criticised over his views on Islam, said in the report that “Prevent has a double standard when dealing with the extreme right wing and Islamism.”
