Robert Philpot
Published on July 18, 2026
Why does Mughal believe Jews in Britain have not been afforded similar levels of solidarity by their compatriots? He blames “inbuilt perceptions” within antiracist movements that Israel is all-powerful and that Jews are wealthy and politically well-connected.
These perceptions, which “verge right on the edge of antisemitic rhetoric and tip over in many ways,” have become an excuse for “inaction,” Mughal says. There is something jarring, he continues, in the fact that an antiracist movement which claims to stand up for “minority communities” is ignoring the plight of British Jews, “a tiny minority community,” when it is under a sustained assault