Metropolitan Police apologise after watchdog investigation found officers joking about Auschwitz

Metropolitan Police

The Metropolitan Police has apologised after an investigation from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) discovered that officers had been sharing jokes about Auschwitz concentration camp. It was also reported that there was an antisemitic joke made with reference to “killing flies”. The investigation also uncovered evidence of bullying, misogyny and racist abuse amongst […]

Antisemitic incidents in France skyrocket by 75% in 2021

Antisemitic incidents in France have skyrocketed by 75% in 2021. According to the French Jewish community’s main watchdog, the Jewish Community Security Service (SPCJ), 589 antisemitic hate crimes were recorded in 2020, including an increase of 36% in physical assaults.  The use of knives and guns was also noticeably higher than in previous years, and […]

Neo-Nazis scream “The Jew is the Devil!” at rally in Florida

“The Jew is the devil!” “Jews rape children and drink their blood” and “Jews brought slaves here” were among some of the slogans chanted by the National Socialist Movement (NSM) at a rally on Saturday in Florida. The NSM is an explicitly neo-Nazi group, which calls for an all-white “greater America”, which would remove citizenship […]

Borough High Street defaced with swastika graffiti

Graffiti of a swastika was found scrawled on the glass casing surrounding a Borough High Street billboard today. The words “No to”, followed by a Star of David, were written in pink marker on the glass. A swastika was scrawled directly below. Images of the graffiti were reported to Campaign Against Antisemitism by a concerned […]