A HOLOCAUST survivor and Jewish leaders say they are worried about a rise in anti-Semitism – but the problem isn’t as bad in Dorset.

A YouGov poll of more than 3,400 UK adults, commissioned by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA), found that 45 per cent of adults believed that at least one anti-Semitic view presented to them was “definitely or probably true”.

In a separate survey, also by the CAA, 54 per cent of Jews feared they had no future in the UK, with a quarter saying they had considered leaving the country in the past two years.

Of the 2,230 British Jews asked, 56 per cent said they felt that anti-Semitism now echoed that of the 1930s.

Last year saw the most anti-Semitic incidents recorded by police since records began 30 years ago, the campaign said.

Henry Schachter, a Holocaust survivor living in Bournemouth, was just five years old when he had to be hidden from the Nazis.

He now speaks at schools and said: “It’s very similar (to the 1930s), especially for everyone who went through those years.”

Henry said that images from the Middle East in the media fuelled the problem.

But of Bournemouth, he added: “We have a very good relationship with Muslims here and so far there’s been no evidence of anti-Semitic rants and rages.”

Rabbi Maurice Michaels, of Bournemouth Reform Syn-agogue, said that the findings reflected those in other European countries, but he said that he did not agree that things were as bad as the 1930s.

He added: “Locally I don’t see a lot of anti-Semitism, but I think we have a very different mix of people than what exists in certain parts of London, for example.”

Adnan Chaudry, chief officer of Dorset Race Equality Council, said the survey findings made ‘disturbing reading’.

He added: “There’s always been the odd incident in Dorset, but from my own knowledge it’s probably not as great as other parts of the country.

“The most pleasing thing for me is that the faith communities work really well together and it’s a good model for Dorset. That’s the way to undercut anti-Semitism.”