PC Mohammed Nizam dismissed after endorsing antisemitic comments
Allegations of antisemitism within the ranks of the Metropolitan Police are a disturbing reminder that Jew hatred is not a relic of the past.
PC Mohammed Nizam has been dismissed by the Metropolitan Police after admitting to a disciplinary panel that he engaged positively with antisemitic posts on social media.
You can read more details about his posts here.
The panel reportedly concluded that PC Nizam had violated police standards on equality and diversity, amounting to gross misconduct. PC Nizam is understood to have accepted his conduct, and expressed regret for his comments.
These revelations are abhorrent from an individual whose job is to protect members of the public. Anyone found to have endorsed antisemitic comments is unfit to be a police officer.
British Jews have long suffered two-tier policing that sees antisemitic crime go unpunished. Faith in the police has dropped to its lowest level since our polling began, with only 14% of British Jews believing that the police do enough to protect them.
How are Jewish people supposed to trust the police and feel safe in their communities if serving officers themselves are found to have endorsed material of this kind?
We welcome the Met’s decisive action in this case. It must ensure that antisemitism has no place in its ranks.
Police investigating man wearing threatening “Khybar Khybar yaa Yahud” t-shirt
Police are investigating after a man was seen in an area with a large Jewish population wearing a t-shirt threatening Jews.
The man, who was photographed out shopping in North London while wearing the t-shirt, has not yet been identified.
The words on the t-shirt, “Khaybar Khaybar yaa Yahud”, are the beginning of the notorious Arabic battle cry that begins: “Jews, remember the Battle of Khaybar”, and continues “The army of Mohammed is returning”. It refers to the massacre and expulsion of the Jews of Khaybar in 628 CE and is plainly a battle cry against Jews.
Campaign Against Antisemitism was contacted by a Jewish man who was shopping at Sainsbury’s with his children and called the police.
The Metropolitan Police Service told Campaign Against Antisemitism: “Around 15:35 on Friday, 14th August, officers received a report that a man had been seen in a supermarket in Williamson Road, Haringey wearing a t-shirt with an alleged antisemitic wording on.T he wording was not in English and while officers who initially spoke to the complainant a short time later were able to obtain a translation, they were understandably not aware of its meaning and historical context. Following subsequent discussions with officers with expertise in this area, the report has been recorded as a potential racially aggravated public order offence. Officers have been in contact with the victim and enquiries to identify the person involved are ongoing. No arrests have been made at this stage.”
This disgusting intimidation must be met with the full force of the law. This kind of incitement and hatred has been becoming more and more brazen to the extent that it is now casually displayed in everyday public settings. Jewish people are being bullied and abused as they go about their lives, and the only way that this will change is if the perpetrators face the consequences of their actions.
Did you see this man? Contact [email protected] confidentially with any information.
Man charged in connection with Heaton Park synagogue terror attack
Questions about antisemitism within policing come as officers continue to investigate one of the deadliest antisemitic terror attacks in recent British history.
Iraqi national Hekmat Omar Ali Hakim has been charged with failing to disclose information regarding terrorist activity. He reportedly denied the charge before Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday last week.
Counter Terrorism Policing North West has confirmed that the charge brought against Mr Hakim is “directly related” to the attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in October last year, which left two Jews dead.
Mr Hakim is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 25th September.
The development comes just weeks after Greater Manchester Police stated that its investigations into the attacker responsible for the murders had fallen short. According to Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, the force failed to examine crucial information stored on phones belonging to terrorist Jihad al-Shamie which, they now admit, would have prompted further investigation.
Alleged offenders who perpetrate hate are facing consequences for their crimes
Over the past week, several people accused of antisemitic crimes and a politically motivated arson attack have been charged, imprisoned or pled guilty to their alleged offences, demonstrating that those who target Jews must be held to account.
- On Friday, Ali Reza Fallahi, 45, a dual British-Iranian national, pleaded guilty before Harrow Crown Court to the arson attack on Golders Green memorial wall, which took place in April of this year. He is due to be sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on 16th October. You can read more about the case here.
- Last Monday, Alfonso Pena, 52, was jailed for six years and six months for attacking the caretaker of the shared house where Mr Pena was living. During the attack which took place in July 2025, Mr Pena reportedly threatened the caretaker and accused him of being a Jewish terrorist, stabbing him in the back. You can read more about the case here.
- On Friday, an eighteen-year-old accused of publishing online far-right material intended to stir up racial hatred against Jews appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via video link. Daniel Woolfenden allegedly shared the live-streamed video of the 2019 Christchurch attacker Brenton Tarrant on White Pilled TV, a self-described “Pro-White Platform.” He is due to appear at the Old Bailey on 25th September. You can read more here.
Sadly, this threat is not limited to the UK.
A man suspected of disrupting a recent service at Manhattan’s Central Synagogue in New York has been charged with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury.
Bronx resident Larry Montes, 46, allegedly began shouting nine minutes into the Friday night service before approaching the synagogue stage.
He reportedly shouted “F*** you people” and “I don’t f*** with you people”. It was said that the synagogue’s security attempted to remove Mr Montes, but not before the suspect allegedly punched a 63-year-old woman in the face. After his arrest, he reportedly told police officers: “F*** the Jews…it’s racial.”
Attacks on Jews are becoming all-too commonplace. Those found guilty of them must be dealt with swiftly and robustly.
Charities under fire over alleged antisemitism and terror links
The London-based Islamic Centre of England (ICE) is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission, after an event earlier this year where it is alleged that “vendors sold items including pro-Iranian regime keyrings and Hezbollah-themed phone cases”.
The Commission previously issued ICE with an Official Warning following “two events held at the charity’s premises in 2020 that eulogised Major General Qasem Soleimani who is subject to UK sanctions,” and led the division within Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for extraterritorial and clandestine military operations.
The Commission also launched a statutory investigation into ICE in 2023 after allegations that it was the London office of the IRGC. You can read more here.
Speaking to The Telegraph, crossbench peer Lord Walney said: “Given its history of controversy and status under ongoing investigation, it is alarming that the Islamic Centre of England is a registered visa sponsor”.
Sponsoring visas should be a privilege, not a right. The Home Office must urgently review its list of organisations entrusted to sponsor visas and clamp down on any found to have connections with proscribed organisations and anti-Jewish groups.
Meanwhile, in an online sermon entitled “Who is the True Israel?”, led by Reverend Brett Murphy of the Emmanuel Free Church of England, various incendiary comments were made about Jews and Judaism.
During the sermon, Rev. Murphy claims that some Jews “practice black magic” and that, quoting Christian nationalist Douglas Wilson, “when the Jews are bad, they’re very, very bad”. He also stated that “Modern Judaism contains demonic cults.”
The Emmanuel Free Church of England is a registered charity, and we will be writing to the Charity Commission.
Leaked Green Party WhatsApp messages discuss “killing Zionists”
Sadly, antisemitic rhetoric is increasingly finding its way into political discourse.
Leaked messages from a WhatsApp group show Green Party members discussing “killing Zionists” and expressing understanding for why someone might “want to plough into a group” of Jews. During one conversation, a participant asked if Magill wanted Israel “wiped off the map, in essence?” Magill replied: “Yes, I would like that.”
Our polling shows 80% of British Jews identify as Zionists, while 6% do not.
The group, set up by a Green Party parish councillor Sophus Magill, also had a participant write that “the IRGC are by definition part of a national liberation movement”. The message was sent before the IRGC was designated as a foreign state-backed threat believed to have directed terror attacks at Jewish communities in the UK.
These messages are not only utterly repugnant, but certain posts to the group may constitute criminal offences which our lawyers are currently reviewing. This is a matter that should be sufficiently serious to concern the police, especially given the talk of what seems to be a vehicular mass-casualty attack on British Jews.
The Green Party has glibly declined to comment because the group was not “official” but that is not good enough, not least because the group was created by one of their Councillors. It is increasingly rife with this kind of invective and incitement and those responsible must be expelled.
This hostile sentiment was also on display in a recent post by Eleanora Folan, who runs the ‘Stats for Lefties’ X account, announcing their successful election to the Green Party’s national governing council.
The announcement condemns the “feral Zionist press” and contains a short but clear message for “Zionists”: “I welcome their hatred.” Their pinned X post calls for “glory to the Iranian resistance”, the abolition of the world’s only Jewish state and denounces “bloodthirsty Zionists”.
This is not a rank-and-file member of the Green Party, it is a member of its governing council unashamedly spewing extremist hatred.
Zack Polanski, as leader of the Green Party, will sit alongside Ms Folan on the same governing council. Will he condemn this extremist, look the other way, or perhaps even endorse this rhetoric?
Restore Britain in the headlines again over alleged antisemitic donor
Antisemitism is a multi-party issue.
A Restore Britain donor has reportedly said that the world needed “another Hitler”, and that he was a “great man”.
According to The Telegraph, Miles Routledge, or Lord Miles as he is known online, reportedly made a £2,500 donation to the Party as a membership fee for their ‘Cromwell Club’, a group set up “to support the movement’s work funding research, outreach, and strategic campaigns”. A Party spokesperson has claimed the donation has since been refunded.
Mr Routledge reportedly made the concerning comments on his X profile in January of this year.
In another reported post by Mr Routledge six months prior, he said, “What brings me joy and hope in this world is that by 2039 we’ll have another Hitler to lead another great uprising.” He also reportedly claimed that Jewish people were “deceiving us about their true numbers”, to “cling to that ‘brink of extinction’ myth.”
The threat of the far-right in Britain is once again becoming impossible to ignore.
Vendors at 1940s-themed weekend sell Nazi memorabilia
Last week, a member of the public alerted us to the sale of grotesque Nazi memorabilia, including flags and SS armbands, at the Lytham 1940s Weekend in Lancashire.
According to its promotional page on the ‘Discover Fylde’ website, the Lytham 1940s Weekend seeks to “re-live the 1940s wartime era with […] forties singing, dancing, weapons displays, historic vehicles, military charities and vintage traders.”
Nazi memorabilia is not a quaint, nostalgic souvenir of the past. These items were part of a military apparatus involved in the extermination of six million Jewish men, women, and children.
Even more galling, the website’s visitor information asks attendees not to wear “anything that might offend others” or “anything associated with the more extreme elements of the Nazi regime.” So why is Lytham 1940s Weekend permitting the sale of hate symbols?
We will be writing to Fylde Council. These items belong in a museum, not in the hands of collectors who stand to profit from the symbols of a genocide.
Jews paying the price for skyrocketing antisemitism
New research highlights the disturbing scale of antisemitism in Britain today.
A report by King’s College London professor Dr Daniel Allington, published in the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, has found that antisemitic crimes have doubled since Hamas’ barbaric 7th October 2023 terrorist attacks on Israel.
The study combined eight years of crime and policing data with evidence on antisemitic attitudes, including our own representative polling.
Research further concluded that the prevalence of antisemitic attitudes has doubled over the past six years. Notably, Dr Allington found that new immigrants to the UK from countries where antisemitic attitudes are more widespread show little change in those attitudes after arriving.
Other key findings were that higher rates of antisemitism have been observed in British Muslims and in young people aged between eighteen and 27 years old, compared with the wider population.
This sentiment was echoed by Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, in a recent interview with Jewish News where he commented: “We’re all now waiting for the next terrible thing to happen.”
It is no good tiptoeing around the problem. The solution requires a combination of education and zero-tolerance enforcement – from mosques to social media and schools – but also better integration. The finding that migrants are bringing their values with them and sticking to them will not surprise anyone, but now there is empirical data to prove it. That is a critical contribution to the current debate over immigration in this country, and in particular its role in the antisemitism crisis.
A majority of British Jews (51%) feel that they do not have a long-term future in the UK; less than a quarter (23%) do. As studies like these continue to pile up, they only reinforce the mounting insecurity faced by British Jews.
Israeli journalists reporting on antisemitism are attacked on streets of Belfast
You can’t make this up.
In video footage of an incident which took place last weekend in Belfast, a man appears to throw a glass of beer at one member of an Israeli film crew, causing injury. Thankfully, it did not require further medical attention.
A man in his thirties has reportedly been arrested and charged.
The journalists were in Belfast with a film crew to record a documentary series focusing on the rise of antisemitism in Europe.
Unfortunately, they have now seen first-hand how bad things have become.
Taxi drivers suffering from anti-Israel demonstrations
“I don’t work Saturdays anymore.”
Anti-Israel demonstrations are taking money out of people’s pockets.
We interviewed cab drivers, who told us that their livelihoods are being impacted.
This is what they said.
Independent Muslim schools with alleged ties to Hamas
Four independent Muslim schools are reportedly being reviewed by the Department for Education for alleged links to Hamas. Two are located in Croydon, south London, and two in Birmingham, and are altogether attended by over 550 children.
Concerns have been raised due to the fact that the schools are run by the Al-Khair Foundation, which is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission for its alleged connections to Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK.
The Department for Education has stated that the case has been referred to its Counter-Extremism and Non-School Education team.
Schools must not be allowed to become a breeding ground for extremism, hatred and radicalisation. We hope that our recommendations to Sir David Bell’s independent review of antisemitism in schools – in which we call for meaningful consequences for schools that allow a hostile environment for Jewish pupils and staff to develop – are taken onboard to begin to tackle a problem that is very quickly spiralling out of control.
Fighting antisemitism and extremism starts with education
The spread of extremist and antisemitic ideas among young people shows why education is so important in confronting hatred before it takes root.
If you want to educate against hatred, and contribute to changing things for future generations, then maybe our Education and Outreach Officer role is for you.
Visit antisemitism.org/jobs for more information and to apply.
Podcast Against Antisemitism returns!
Amid a torrent of rising antisemitism across all facets of life in the UK, Campaign Against Antisemitism is proud to bring back our Podcast Against Antisemitism for a new season.
Our first guest for this series is former British Army Major Andrew Fox, who completed three tours in Afghanistan before becoming a frontline conflict researcher and later going on to teach military theory and leadership at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has spoken in the British Houses of Parliament, the French Senate, and the United Nations.
We discussed growing extremism on British streets, the psychology behind the spread of disinformation and his trips to Gaza.
You can watch the full episode here, or listen to it here and here.
As antisemitism continues to rear its ugly head in our schools, police forces, political parties and further afield, Campaign Against Antisemitism will continue to challenge those who spread hatred and fight for a safer future for British Jews.
