Dame Louise Ellman MP quits Corbyn’s Labour, saying “We cannot allow him to do to the country what he has done to the Labour Party”
Louise Ellman MP has quit the Labour Party after 55 years of membership because she says that “Jeremy Corbyn is not fit to be Prime Minister” because he “spent three decades on the backbenches consorting with, and never confronting antisemites, Holocaust deniers and terrorists”, saying he has “attracted the support of too many antisemites”. She […]
BBC Arabic describes Halle shooting as attack on kebab shop and does not mention attempted synagogue massacre
A report on the Halle synagogue attack on the BBC Arabic website fails to mention antisemitism or Jews, stating simply that “some German news outlets say it happened near a synagogue but this cannot be confirmed.” This was despite the fact that the motivations of the attacker and the target — a synagogue on Yom […]
Member of Scottish Parliament laments the casual Holocaust denial he encountered in hospital
A member of the Scottish Parliament has related how quickly conversation with his ward mates in hospital turned to the Holocaust – and Holocaust denial. Alex Cole-Hamilton, the MSP for Edinburgh Western, has written about his stay in a hospital in West Lothian for hand surgery over the summer, recounting that the man next to […]
Teacher sacked for ‘jokingly’ threatening pupils to “ship them off to the gas chambers” if they didn’t finish their homework
Newberries Primary School in Radlett has dismissed a teacher after she reportedly told her pupils: “You better finish off your work quick, or I’ll ship you all off to the gas chambers.” The comment was made to a class of 28 ten-year-olds, eleven of whom are Jewish. The teacher was then challenged by one of […]
“Dirty Jews it’s all your fault”: man arrested for abuse of Jews outside synagogue on eve of Sukkot festival
A man was arrested for threatening Jewish adults and children outside a synagogue, yelling “dirty Jews, it’s all your fault, you are rubbish” and waving his fists at them in a violent manner. The incident took place at a synagogue in Stamford Hill on 13th October, the eve of the festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles), and […]
“Sanctimonious hypocrite” Corbyn told to “sort your own house out first” before calling out racism in football
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been accused of being a “sanctimonious hypocrite” after he called on UEFA to “do far more to tackle this kind of abuse”. Mr Corbyn made the comments following England’s match against Bulgaria on 14th October, which was interrupted twice as a far-right contingent of Bulgarian fans made Nazi salutes and […]
17-year-old Jewish girl threatened and almost punched by antisemite
A Jewish girl on a route 253 bus was accosted by a man shouting “you Jews, you have it all good”. The man attempted to punch her but just missed her face due to the motion of the bus. The man continued to insult Jewish people and reportedly nothing was done to stop him on […]