Professor John Robertson OBA

According to the Scottish Daily Express yesterday:

Jewish families are considering leaving Scotland in the face of a backlash against the community over the conflict in Gaza, with the First Minister accused of stoking tensions

The Jewish population is in decline but that’s a result of intermarriage, aging, assimilation, secularisation and some movement historically but not recently, to Israel and other parts of the world. There’s no sign they’d be fleeing to places where anti-semitism is much more of an issue

I’ve been following the annual survey by the Jewish charity, the Community Security Trust, of anti-semitic offences since 2022. In that time there have been increases in offences in England but not in Scotland and, notably, year after year, not one physical assault in Scotland and four times the rate of lesser offences such as graffiti in England.

In October this year we saw:

also hopeful it is safer as Jewish people to live in Glasgow, in Scotland than there is not as much anti-Semitism, ant-Zionism, there is not these much going ahead, there is not so much hatred.

Reporting Scotland last night we saw an interview with a Jewish woman from Glasgow, welcoming the apparent peace settlement in Gaza but also, unscripted, telling the reporter that she is aware of less anti-Semitism in Scotland.

This is not something the MSM here want you to be thinking. Remember, we’re just like the rest of the UK, bad.

While BBC Scotland can never say these things directly, they always make sure you see or hear them in their press reviews.

However, this little insert is a useful confirmation of the more objective evidence found in research such as that produced by the UK Jewish group, the CST:

Contrary to media hysteria, there was not one anti-Semitic violent attack recorded in Scotland in 2024

The most recent report on anti-semitic attacks in the UK, in 2024, from the CST, published 12 February 2025, prompted some excited media coverage at the time but today the hoisting, in Edinburgh, of a Palestine flag in sympathy for the genocide in Gaza and in line with the UN position on Palestine as an independent state has enabled the above front page mince.

From Antisemitic Incidents 2024:

 CST recorded 3,528 antisemitic incidents in the UK in 2024, the second-highest total ever reported to CST in a single calendar year.

Only one of the cases could be described by the researchers as ‘Extreme Violence include any antisemitic attack with the potential or intention of causing loss of life or grievous bodily harm (GBH).’ 126 cases were described as ‘violent.’ None of these took place in Scotland.

74 of these all cases reported took place in Scotland, with 8% of the UK population so, per head of population, that would be equivalent to just below 900, around a quarter of the rate.

Bizarrely the only case reported in Scotland and used in the report is this:

A series of antisemitic leaflets were seen in northern Scotland. They were produced by the Goyim Defence League and claimed that “Every Single Aspect Of Feminism Is Jewish”

Source: https://cst.org.uk/research/cst-publications/antisemitic-incidents-2024