Funding for protection against antisemitism
On 19th February 2026, the UK Government announced that it would allocate £73.4 million to a fund intended to improve security for faith groups through to 2027.
Antisemitism and religiously motivated crime have increased to worrying levels recently. Research by the Community Security Trust (CST), a charity that monitors antisemitism in the UK, showed incidents against Jews reached the second highest level on record in 2025 totalling 3,700. The Home Office said the new funding responds to faith groups "feeling unsafe and targeted by hate", and that is what we hear as we support Jewish communities around the nation. Jews in the UK are now too frightened to wear symbols of their faith openly. They are fearful for their children at schools and their families in synagogues, spending large sums on security measures for both.
- Pray for Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, who recently said that "religious persecution and intolerance has no place in Britain". Pray she is made aware of the impact on individuals and communities, especially in major cities, and has compassion for them.
- Pray for Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, who claimed that her department, others in the government and the police forces, are able to support those in fear, solve crimes and see fitting sentences and deterrents, so that Jews in our nation are safe, feel protected and valued as part of our society.
- Pray for Christian Friends of Israel UK to be able to encourage Jewish people, through various events and in different environments, showing that many Christians do stand with them, support Israel and see God’s heart for them. Pray too that we can share how we appreciate that God is fulfilling his purposes through them.
- Pray for Christians in this nation to have a humble spirit and a heart for repentant prayer to return our nation to its Judeo-Christian heritage. Pray they have a supernatural revelation of biblical truth and the key scriptures that remind us that we should be a blessing to Israel and that, when we are, our nation will be blessed. But also noting that the opposite applies too - those who curse Israel will suffer adverse consequences, Genesis 12:3.
- A dangerous line of thought called Replacement Thinking (supersessionism) suggests that the Church has replaced Israel in God’s plans, and that they are no longer his chosen people. However, because God is a covenant-making and covenant-keeping God, Deuteronomy 7:9, his promises are everlasting. Replacement thinking portrays God as someone who changes his mind and that isn’t in his character. Pray that the Holy Spirit, our teacher and companion, will show us God’s heart for Israel.
Read up on this subject with our free downloadable teaching:
Has the Church Replaced Israel
Promises, Promises
Encouraging Scriptures
Denying our roots
Julia Soakell
February 2026
