The findings of the important, timely and extremely worrying Government-backed review into antisemitism confirm what many British Jews already know and have been experiencing – that antisemitism has not only been increasing in Britain but is becoming normalised in many places.

We thank Lord John Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt for their leadership in co-authoring it, and the Board of Deputies of British Jews for commissioning it.

The authors found that there is “almost nowhere” that British Jews could go “where antisemitism does not seem present in some form” – from the NHS to universities, from the arts to the workplace.

Chillingly, they report an “extreme, personalised and sometimes life-changing impact directed at individuals purely and simply because they are Jewish”, as well as the use of antisemitic tropes in classroom teaching.

They also heard from Jewish professionals who felt actively excluded or discriminated against by their own trade unions and professional bodies.

We support the report’s call to recognise Judaism as both a religion and an ethnicity.

This is not just symbolic. Jewish identity has never been singular. It spans many backgrounds, cultures and ways of living. Recognising Judaism as an ethnicity helps protect that diversity and challenges the idea that there is only one way to be Jewish.

A change such as this would have real and positive consequences for schools and workplaces, where Jewish people often face assumptions or abuse based on names, appearance, heritage or perceived loyalties.

We are also clear that antisemitism does not exist in a vacuum. It is part of a wider rise in racism, Islamophobia and polarisation. Tackling one form of hate must never mean ignoring others.

Progressive Judaism will continue to stand for a society in which Jewish people – and all people – can live in dignity, safety and belonging.