CAA publishes audio analysis of the alleged Belfast attacker
Was the Belfast assailant shouting about Jews while allegedly attempting to behead his victim?
Here is the original video of the assault for you to make up your own mind, but we have pixellated it due to its extremely violent and graphic nature.
Our investigators believe that the assailant in the video is shouting: “Ya yahoodi, Ya yahoodi, ta’al awsif!”, which translates from Arabic as “O Jew, O Jew, come and record/let me show you!”
We have made this assessment with medium confidence (higher confidence on the reference to Jews).
You can read more on our analysis here, which, if correct, would chillingly indicate that there may have been an antisemitic motivation or undertone in this heinous incident.
At the very least, it indicates that the extremism that is now afflicting us all in the West is strongly related to the explosion of antisemitism that is targeted at Jews.
Court upholds ban on Palestine Action
Today, the Court of Appeal has overturned the High Court’s ruling on the Palestine Action proscription, which had previously deemed the ban “disproportionate”.
The group will therefore remain proscribed as a terrorist organisation.
The judiciary has seen sense. The High Court’s ruling was a step backward in the fight against extremism, and we welcome the Court of Appeal’s correction.
British Jews’ faith in the justice system has been rapidly waning, so this decision cannot have come sooner. It recognises the violently criminal nature of Palestine Action and the impact of its activities, which terrorise ordinary people and the Jewish community.
Judges have finally declared that criminality and terrorism carried out ‘for Palestine’ will have consequences.
More than 700 people have already been charged with supporting a proscribed organisation under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in relation to their public backing of Palestine Action, while hundreds more have been arrested and are awaiting a charging decision.
The next step is for prosecutors to act on all of the arrests that the police have made of those involved in or expressing support for this heinous organisation.
This country’s overdue campaign against shocking levels of extremism is only just beginning.
Now, the IRGC and other terrorist groups
Today’s Palestine Action decision underscores the Home Secretary’s power to proscribe terrorist networks.
It is time for the Government to ban the IRGC, as it has repeatedly pledged to do, and also the PFLP, the other Palestinian terrorist organisations involved in the 7th October 2023 atrocity and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The new National Security (State Threats) Bill making its way through Parliament would allow the Home Secretary to designate and essentially proscribe groups working for hostile states or their proxies. The new laws would mean that those acting for hostile foreign powers could face fines and jail sentences of up to fourteen years.
As Labour’s Lord Cryer said, this bill “is not before time.” He has been a stalwart proponent of the ban on the IRGC.
You can back the ban by signing our petition at antisemitism.org/BanTheIRGC.
This country must send a message that it stands opposed to radical extremist violence at home and abroad.
Palestine Action activists sentenced
Today’s Court of Appeal decision is welcome, and it comes off the back of Friday’s sentencing of four of the Palestine Action-affiliated activists who were involved in a break-in at a UK subsidiary of Elbit Systems in August 2024.
At Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London, Samuel Corner, 23, received a prison sentence of seven years and eight months, in relation to an assault with a sledgehammer on a police officer which left her gravely injured. Charlotte Head, 30, and Leona Kamio, 30, each received a five-year prison sentence, while Fatema Rajwani, 21, received four years and eight months. All four of the convicted will serve an additional year on licence, and will be subject to fifteen years of terrorist notification requirements..
It was also reported that there were over 100 arrests made outside the courts from a crowd of 500 which had gathered for the proceedings.
It is past time to crack down on this rampant extremism.
Meanwhile, several other incidents and cases are worthy of mention:
- Daniel Day, 30, has been convicted after he scaled Big Ben with a flag of the Palestinian Authority and stayed up there for fifteen hours. Extensive safety measures were put in place to assist him in getting down from the tower, which he repeatedly refused to do. He also reportedly became verbally abusive to officers during the ordeal. He is due to be sentenced in July. This is what Palestine activism is about: disgracing our national monuments and values and causing enormous disruption in our capital with nothing to show for it except unpleasantness to local people.
- Two women have appeared in court charged with intending or likely to stir up racial hatred in relation to threatening “Khaybar Khaybar” chanting allegedly shouted at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign protest in October 2023. Two and half years on, they are finally in court. You can read more about the case here.
- The Met Police has announced that Subhan Ahmed, 18, has been charged with assisting an offender in connection to the alleged arson attack on four Hatzola ambulances in March earlier this year. He is the fifth person to be charged in relation to the incident. All are aged twenty or younger.
- A man alleged to have punched a seagull to death in front of horrified holidaymakers in Cornwall is believed to run one of the UK’s most notorious “anti-Zionist” accounts, in which he has referred to “Zionist Jews” as “parasites” who “need to be isolated in all walks of life in our society”. Did he think the seagull was a Zionist? Read more here.
Another disappointing police outcome, this time in Edgware
Last week, we wrote to the Met Police Commissioner requesting that conditions under s.14 of the Public Order Act be placed on the planned protests outside a synagogue in Edgware.
The police replied that they did not consider the threat to be sufficiently grave to impose conditions.
Other types of protests in other areas affecting other minority communities have in the past been severely restricted. But not this protest in a Jewish area outside a synagogue.
Predictably, at the protest yesterday there was disorder, as the Palestine fanatics brought their ‘activism’ to a Jewish neighbourhood once again and protested outside a synagogue. The police were out in force and numerous arrests were made.
It is extraordinary that the authorities then express surprise and shock when Jewish people and their property are targeted for violence in these same neighbourhoods.
This is not the only policing authority which has had to provide answers. After CAA wrote to the Home Secretary with our concerns and a wider outcry, the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has published its response to the National Association of Muslim Police’s (NAMP) appalling, trope-laden policy paper which came to light last week. You can read more here.
Solidarity in another Jewish neighbourhood
Elie recently joined the regular Borehamwood vigil and spoke to the crowd.
He asked attendees why they feel that it is so important to come together every week for two and a half years now. Watch to find out what they said.
These statistics are disturbing
This week two reports of interest have been published.
One published by the Metropolitan Police reports that the number of antisemitic hate crimes recorded in May 2026 has increased by 72%.
The police force recorded 255 antisemitic hate crimes last month, compared to 148 in April. At least one incident took place in 28 out of the 32 London boroughs, with a third of the total incidents logged in the north London borough of Barnet. This is the largest monthly increase in antisemitic crimes based in London that has been observed since late 2023.
Even as tensions in the Middle East reduce, the rate of antisemitic crime in the UK is getting worse, not better. The floodgates have opened, and it was the authorities who opened them.
A second report underscores a disturbing trend: Britain’s youth are becoming more and more radicalised.
According to the Higher Education Policy Institute, more than a quarter – 28% – of students aged between eighteen and 21 feel that Hamas’ 7th October terrorist attacks are ‘defensible’. This chimes with our polling over the past two years, which discovered a similar trend.
There is a serious danger that our places of higher learning are breeding grounds for extremist ideologies. When more than one in four students can look at the worst antisemitic massacre since the Holocaust and conclude that it was defensible, something has gone badly wrong.
We urgently need to deradicalise this country.
This is how much the Palestine mob hates the Jewish state
The biggest cause of death in hospitals is sepsis.
Palantir has managed to halve sepsis deaths in a hospital in Florida where it has been operating pioneering technology. But Palantir’s contract with the NHS has a break clause, and activists are urging the Government to use it because of the company’s supposed connections to the US and, you guessed it, the Jewish state.
Whatever the merits or otherwise of the contract itself, rejecting potentially life-saving technology in this way is cutting off your nose to spite your face – and being indifferent to the wound developing sepsis.
How high a cost are ordinary Britons prepared to pay for this activist hatred? The price could be measured in lives.
Even when the price is measured in pounds, the hatred is just as intense.
Stickers calling to boycott Israeli goods were placed on a box of matzah in Sainsbury’s in Clifton, Bristol. However, the manufacturer – Rakusen’s – is based in Yorkshire.
This is not a product from Israel – not that that would make it less intolerable. This is a British kosher manufacturer, based in the north of England. Any pretence of this being about Israel has been abandoned.
We understand that the store manager was alerted and that a police investigation is underway.
A boycott you can do something about: buy your ticket now!
CAA is proud to host renowned soprano Ilona Domnich in an evening of Jewish pride, resilience and beautiful music.
Ilona will share her story as a Jewish performer whose refusal to stay silent in the face of hatred and lies following 7th October 2023 resulted in her increasingly being shunned by her colleagues, and excluded from the profession she loves.
There are still tickets available for this special event on Wednesday 8th of July, “Ilona Domnich: in concert and in conversation.”
There will be an appeal on the night, with the donations received going towards our work supporting people like Ilona who must not be left to fight the antisemites alone.
For more information, and to book your tickets, please click the link here.
First England, then Scotland and now Ireland
The upcoming UEFA Nations League fixture between Ireland and Israel will go ahead, but in a “neutral venue” with supporters barred from attending.
First, England could not guarantee the safety of foreign Jewish fans in the Aston Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv match: police barred them from coming.
Then Scotland could not guarantee their safety for the Women’s World Cup qualifier between Scotland and Israel: the match was moved abroad.
Now Ireland too won’t take responsibility for protecting Jewish fans from local Jew-haters.
What message is this sending? Intimidation works, and those who threaten peaceful events can successfully dictate public life. Law-abiding citizens should not have to pay the price for the hooliganism of pro-Palestine extremists.
All relevant bodies involved, including UEFA, must ensure that any decisions made are based on principle, not on yielding to the mob.
Football is supposed to bring people together.That includes Jews.
An evening of Jewish pride, resilience and beautiful music
The Jewish community and its allies rightly oppose boycotts of Jewish and Israeli goods and people. Usually that is rhetorical, but sometimes there are opportunities to put it into practice.
Our event on Wednesday 8th of July, “Ilona Domnich: in concert and in conversation”, is one such opportunity.
Shunned by her peers, she proudly and defiantly continues to perform. This is our chance to stand with her as she helps us raise money to support others also shunned by their industries. This is how we fight back.
You can buy your tickets here.
We hope to see you there!
