Man fined and banned from Swansea City games after Nazi salute to Spurs supporters
A man has been fined and banned from Swansea City football games after performing a Nazi salute to Spurs supporters. Leighton Johnson from Swansea was captured making a Nazi salute towards Tottenham Hotspur supporters at Liberty Stadium in April 2017. Mr Johnson denied causing racially aggravated alarm or distress and claimed that he was merely […]
Officially defining Jews as an ethnicity could complicate efforts to track antisemitism
Campaign Against Antisemitism is concerned that proposals to create a ‘Jewish ethnicity’ on official forms could complicate efforts to track antisemitism. Presently, all official forms which include a question about ethnicity offer a choice between a range of white, black, asian and mixed ‘ethnicities’ which are in fact largely based on race more than shared […]
Bus stops in central London vandalised with antisemitic posters claiming that it is “racist” for Jews to have a state
Posters carrying the message “Israel is a racist endeavour” have been put up on bus stops around central London, including one opposite Parliament. This poster explicitly mocks and breaches the International Definition of Antisemitism which states that “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination (e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of […]