UK Jewish Community Gravitating to Greens and Reform UK as Backing for Main Parties Falls

Research has uncovered a fresh electoral split among the UK Jewish community, with backing growing quickly for the Greens – buoyed up by youthful and “anti-Zionist” Jews – while more senior observant men favor the Reform Party as confidence in the leading parties “drops sharply”.

Support for Labour and the Conservatives among UK Jewish voters had fallen to 58% by summer 2025 from around 84% in 2020, according to a analysis from a prominent policy organization, which stated it was “the smallest share we’ve ever recorded by a wide gap”.

Traditionally, Labour is supported by more “secular” Jews while the Conservative party is historically backed by more “Orthodox” Jews.

At the same time, roughly one in five Jewish individuals in Britain (18%) were supporting the Greens by June 2025 – which researchers described as “contradictory” given the party’s stance on the Israeli state, which it labeled an “apartheid state” in a vote at its 2024 national meeting.

Approval of the Green party grew 9% among British Jews between the summer 2024 election and the following year, outstripping the 1% rise in approval of the Green Party among the broader voting population over the same period, and coming before the guidance of a leading figure who identifies as a “committed” Jew but “anti-Zionist”.

The analysis said the increase in Green party support implied “for a significant minority of Jews, home affairs and forward-thinking principles surpass foreign policy concerns”.

At the same time, support for the Reform Party increased among UK Jewish voters from 3% in the 2024 election to 11% in June 2025. Yet the increase lagged the 14% increase Reform experienced with the broader voter base.

“The community is less prone [than the general population] to support Reform UK [11% vs 28%], but more prone to vote for the Greens [18% vs 7%],” the report stated.

A senior researcher remarked: “Reform UK is more inclined to attract men, older, traditional, and pro-Israel Jews; the Green Party are more inclined to draw younger, unaffiliated and non-Zionist …[but] it is crucial to note that it is also part of a wider, wider pattern affecting the British public as a whole.”

Nonetheless, the “sharp rise in backing from Jews for Reform UK – a political group whose language on migration and national identity would typically be predicted to alienate diverse populations, such as Jews” was described as “striking” by researchers.

“Significant parts of the Jewish electorate may lean towards parties pledging strength and direction, regardless of political history” when mainstream parties were viewed as “ineffective or hostile”, it added.

The report stated: “For the initial instance in recent UK Jewish records, support for the two main parties combined has fallen below 60%.

“Given that this is seen in the general population too, it is not just a statistical anomaly – it may indicate a systemic transformation in the political views of Jews.

“Multiple drivers are driving this splintering: the war in Gaza and its divisive impact on Jewish attitudes; rising antisemitism, resulting in a recent violent incident at a synagogue; and a more general collapse of trust in established parties.

“Collectively, these factors are pushing Jews toward parties that offer certainty – be it through mass rhetoric or radical progressivism.

“If current trends persist … Jewish voters in Britain are predicted to become further split, leading to more divisions within the community.”

The organization, which monitors population shifts, interviewed 11,000 UK Jewish individuals for the report, named The shift away from two-party support? Recent shifts in the voting patterns of UK Jewish voters.

It discovered that in 2024, Jewish voters were more prone than the broader electorate to support the dominant groups, with 44% supporting the Labour Party, against 34% of the total voters, and 32% voting for Conservative, against 24% of the wider electorate.

By June, support for Labour had declined by 13% among UK Jewish voters, versus a 9% decrease with the broader voter base, while Conservative support among UK Jewish voters dropped by 4%, paralleling the wider electorate. “Low and stable” support for the Lib Dems has changed from 8% to 9% among the Jewish community.