A polling company last week released the results of a major survey of British Muslims who live in areas where they constitute at least 20 percent of the population. The results, according to Tom Wilson, are not encouraging:

What the findings of this poll point to is that there is now a sizable portion of the British Muslim community that holds views completely at odds with the pluralistic values that liberal democracies depend upon to function and survive. Take what British Muslims think about other minority groups such as Jews and homosexuals. In the . . . poll, 52 percent said they thought homosexuality should be made illegal in Britain. And what respondents had to say about Jews was no less shocking. Well over a third repeatedly endorsed wildly anti-Semitic statements.

No less than 44 percent of Muslims agreed that Jews have too much power in the business world, 38 percent said Jews have too much control over global affairs, 39 percent said Jews have too much influence over the media, and 26 percent said that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars. Additionally, 34 percent agreed that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.” However, when questioned, only 10 percent could accurately identify the number of Jews actually murdered in the Holocaust.

Cautious estimates from other research suggest that Muslims may be responsible for somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain, despite making up only 5 percent of the population. Yet talking honestly about this problem remains difficult. The notion that one minority group might be responsible for directing bigotry against another seems to be incomprehensible to polite opinion. The overarching narrative remains that racism happens only in one direction, from the Caucasian majority toward everyone else.

While it is commendable that administrators of several universities finally called upon police to crack down on violent and disruptive anti-Israel protests, the actions they have taken may be insufficient. At Columbia, demonstrators reestablished their encampment on the main quad after it had been cleared by the police, and the university seems reluctant to use force again. The school also decided to hold classes remotely until the end of the semester. Such moves, whatever their merits, do nothing to fix the factors that allowed campuses to become hotbeds of pro-Hamas activism in the first place. The editors of National Review examine how things go to this point:

Since the 10/7 massacre, Columbia’s Jewish students have been forced to endure routine calls for their execution. It shouldn’t have taken the slaughter, rape, and brutalization of Israeli Jews to expose chants like “Globalize the intifada” and “Death to the Zionist state” as calls for violence, but the university refused to intervene on behalf of its besieged students. When an Israeli student was beaten with a stick outside Columbia’s library, it occasioned little soul-searching from faculty. Indeed, it served only as the impetus to establish an “Anti-Semitism Task Force,” which subsequently expressed “serious concerns” about the university’s commitment to enforcing its codes of conduct against anti-Semitic violators.

But little was done. Indeed, as late as last month the school served as host to speakers who praised the 10/7 attacks and even “hijacking airplanes” as “important tactics that the Palestinian resistance have engaged in.”

The school’s lackadaisical approach created a permission structure to menace and harass Jewish students, and that’s what happened. . . . Now is the time finally to do something about this kind of harassment and associated acts of trespass and disorder. Yale did the right thing when police cleared out an encampment [on Monday]. But Columbia remains a daily reminder of what happens when freaks and haters are allowed to impose their will on campus.