Terror funding investigation underway at Royal Holloway
The Friends of Palestine Society at Royal Holloway, University of London — a society affiliated with the University Students’ Union — has fundraised for Zayir UK, an unregistered fundraising vehicle with alleged links to proscribed group Hizballah.
You can read more about the group’s alleged ties with terror here. The Charity Commission has also disclosed that it rejected a registration application by the group.
We have reported the incident to Counter Terrorism Policing and will be writing to the University and, in relation to the Students’ Union, the Charity Commission.
These astonishing allegations illustrate how British campuses have become a breeding ground for extremism. Counter Terrorism Policing must investigate whether money knowingly or otherwise financed a proscribed terrorist organisation and take appropriately severe action against everyone involved.
The case was first brought to our attention by a student at the University, who is working closely with us as part of a network of CAA campus advocates that we are cultivating to help fight back against antisemitism and extremism at our universities.
We welcome the Royal Holloway Students’ Union’s suspension of the society pending an investigation, but Royal Holloway must also examine the conduct of these students and the Charity Commission must review the Students’ Union’s procedures and act accordingly.
Each of these authorities must send a clear message that extremist ideologies have no place on campus and will be rooted out wherever they take hold.
University professor shares extremist rhetoric on social media
The concerns at Royal Holloway are not an isolated incident in higher education. CAA has uncovered repeated instances of highly inflammatory content posted by Abdullah Al Anjari, a Doctoral Researcher in Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, and a Postgraduate Teaching Associate at University College London.
The posts on his X account, which is now no longer publicly accessible, appear to engage multiple examples within the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, including the denial of Jewish self-determination, the promotion of collective hostility towards Israelis, and the glorification of violence associated with terrorist organisations.
In October 2024, Mr Al Anjari characterised the West’s treatment of Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, as “demonisation.” He said that Sinwar was martyred “with his head held high,” and that he “lived bravely and valiantly.”
Hamas is an antisemitic genocidal terrorist organisation that is proscribed in this country. Sinwar masterminded the 7th October massacre of 1,200 Jews and the abduction of some 250, who were held hostage in brutal conditions.
In a now-archived post from January 2025, Mr Al Anjari allegedly wrote that “Homelands can only be liberated from colonialism through armed resistance,” in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict. He apparently praised individuals who “led the Palestinian armed struggle for decades.”
More explicitly, in a post in July 2025 he said that “The rifle is the only path to liberation.”
Mr Al Anjari, ironically, teaches a module on peacemaking.
In April 2024, Mr Al Anjari allegedly said that Israel has lost the media battle over its war in Gaza despite “the dominance of the Zionist lobby over Western media.”
Claims about Jews, or the Jewish state, wielding extraordinary power and global control are conspiratorial, harmful stereotypes which fuelled antisemitism in the past and continue to do so in the present. They breach the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism.
He has also twice called for the “disappearance” of Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, which he characterises as an obstacle to peace in the Middle East. This aspiration is also a breach of the Definition, because it denies the Jewish people their right to self-determination.
You can find more of his social media posts here.
Extremists teaching our children. Is this what passes for higher education nowadays?
Mr Al Anjari’s apparent rhetoric is plainly incompatible with the standards expected of a British university. We have written to Exeter and UCL.
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Challenging antisemitism means engaging with and educating the public. We took to the streets to ask one straightforward question.
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Shots fired from a ball bearing gun injure Jews in Manchester
Last Monday evening, three people were injured after a BB gun was fired from a passing car at speed. Police are treating the shooting as a religiously aggravated attack on Jews.
The incident took place on Leicester Road in Salford on Monday night at around 22:00 but was not made public during the early stages of the investigation. The victims, all adults, sustained minor injuries.
Shomrim Greater Manchester, the local Jewish community neighbourhood watch patrol, accessed CCTV footage along the route and identified the vehicle registration number, assisting Greater Manchester Police (GMP), which then arrested two suspects. The suspects were detained on suspicion of religiously aggravated common assault and remain in custody for questioning.
Last summer, in an unrelated incident, two men filmed themselves firing a water gun from their car at Jewish passersby. Now it has escalated to real injuries from a BB gun. What will be next?
We are extremely grateful to Shomrim for their remarkable diligence and we wish the victims a full and speedy recovery.
While we thank GMP for their professionalism in apprehending suspects, our message to the Government is that its extra spending on policing to protect British Jews is not the solution. Rampant extremism and Jew-hatred must be tackled at source, including the use of a conflict thousands of miles away to inflame hatred here in Britain.
Heaton Park accomplice jailed over another plot as GMP makes admission
Preventing antisemitic violence means intervening before hatred escalates. Recent events in Manchester are a stark reminder of the cost when the warning signs are missed.
Mohammed Bashir, 31, has been sentenced at Manchester Crown Court after he pleaded guilty to one count of preparing an act of terrorism. He has been jailed for life, of which he will serve a minimum of seventeen years.
The court heard how, together with Jihad al-Shamie, the terrorist whose attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in October last year left two Jews dead, Mr Bashir was planning an attack on a British military base.
During the sentencing remarks, Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb quoted from the Tanach, saying “He that walks with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.”
This sentence sends the clear message that those who prepare acts of terrorism will face the full force of the law.
The connection between Mr Bashir and Heaton Park terrorist Jihad al-Shamie demonstrates the wider threat posed by Islamist networks in Britain. While Jews are often among its first victims, this poisonous ideology endangers all Britons.
On the subject of Heaton Park, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have stated that their investigations into the attacker responsible for the murders at Heaton Park Synagogue on Yom Kippur last October fell short.
According to Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of GMP, terrorist Jihad al-Shamie’s phones were seized by officers after he was arrested on two occasions prior to the synagogue attack, in February and September 2025, but the force failed to examine crucial information stored on the devices which, they now admit, would have prompted further investigation.
Sir Stephen said that he is “deeply sorry” and “disappointed at the prospect of adding to the distress of all of those affected by the terrible events last October.”
Disgraceful payout at West Midlands Police
Former West Midlands Police Chief Constable Craig Guildford has just been handed a £57,800 golden goodbye.
On his watch, Israeli fans were fitted up as the most violent hooligans in Europe so that his force wouldn’t have to deal with violent Islamist thugs. When we and our allies exposed the lies, Chief Constable Guildford resisted.
He was allowed to retire instead of resigning or being fired. And now he’s been handed £57,000 of taxpayers’ money to compensate him for “loss of office”. This is what passes for accountability in modern Britain.
New LSE report illustrates collapsed Jewish confidence in public institutions
“Across all the focus groups, there was a palpable and stark sense among participants of being unheard, let down and betrayed by the state and its institutions.”
This is the bleak reflection on how Jewish people are feeling in the current climate of surging antisemitism in the UK in a new report by LSE academic Prof. Shani Orgad, titled “Listening to British Jews”.
Among its findings was that “To many participants, action from the authorities mostly focused on increasing British Jews’ physical safety, failing to address other serious concerns and harms.”
The focus on trying to protect British Jews rather than confronting the antisemites, their ideologies and enablers that threaten the Jewish community, is fundamental to how antisemitism has spiralled out of control in this country.
You can read more here.
Witness appeal in wake of antisemitic attack in North London
Detectives are appealing for information on an incident which took place on 4th July, during which a man was assaulted whilst with his son, aged three, in Markfield Park, Tottenham.
Thankfully, neither required medical attention.
The Metropolitan Police have described the incident as “an unprovoked antisemitic attack”. It is also reported that during the incident threatening language was directed towards the victims and also to the wider Jewish community.
Anyone with information is being asked to call 101 quoting reference 5884/4Jul. For more details on the incident, click here.
In Hackney, support for IRGC and calls to end twinning arrangement with Israeli city
CAA has reported an individual we believe to have shown support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), to the police.
The IRGC was recently designated under the National Security (State Threats) Act 2026.
CAA uncovered a message from a member of the Hackney branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign WhatsApp group that appears to praise the IRGC.
The message describes the IRGC – which has been linked to numerous terror plots on British soil – as “combating reactionary imperialism” and “defending Iran” against the US. It calls for “Victory to the IRGC”.
Another member of the WhatsApp group reacted to the message with a ‘thumbs up’ emoji, in an apparent display of support for the sentiment.
Glorifying the group is now a criminal offence, and we have reported the messages and those behind them to the police.
Also in Hackney, the local council is reportedly to consider ending its twinning arrangement with Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city.
Nearby, Brent Council has faced criticism over its twinning with Nablus, a city in the Palestinian Authority, after the local municipality there reportedly exhibited displays praising individuals associated with terrorist organisations and attacks against Jews.
The contrast is striking. Haifa is a city where Jews and Arabs famously live side-by-side; Nablus is a city where Jews are forbidden to live or freely access their holy sites under Palestinian Authority control.
A civic partnership with a diverse city in the Jewish state is apparently intolerable, but a city that extols the terrorist murder of Jews deserves the prestige of a twinning arrangement.
This is a sickening moral inversion that reveals the ugly priorities of certain factions in local London politics.
Now we know where Young Greens stand
At the recent Young Greens convention, the faction made clear its positions on antisemitism and Zionism.
Two new co-Chairs were announced: Cynthia Muthoni and Jo Dowbor. The latter is reportedly the founder of the ‘Greens for Palestine’ group, which was behind the scandalous “Zionism is racism” motion that could be debated by the whole Party later this year, and several other controversies.
Both also reportedly proclaimed themselves the new “anti-Zionist co-Chairs” in a post shared on social media.
During the conference, Young Greens also passed a motion proposed by Ms Dowbor which redefines the faction’s interpretation of antisemitism, thereby dropping the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism, which is accepted throughout the mainstream Jewish community and which the Young Greens themselves adopted in 2020.
The motion complained that the earlier adoption of the Definition “raises questions about whether the guidance was designed primarily to provide clear practical guidance or to perform a political position”.
Most criticisms of the Definition are erroneous or disingenuous, but that does not stop agenda-driven opponents from protesting against it and hindering the fight against anti-Jewish racism.
76% of British Jews already believe that the Green Party is too tolerant of antisemitism, according to our representative polling. These most recent developments in its youth wing will do nothing to challenge those perceptions.
Neither will the sort of recruitment campaign that the Young Greens are running – which you can watch here.
Zionists simply believe in Jewish self-determination of the same kind that is afforded to every other people under Article 1 of the UN Charter. Only 6% of British Jews do not identify as Zionists.
This job advertisement from the Young Greens therefore excludes the overwhelming majority of Jews because of a core part of their identity, and any non-Jewish ally who believes that Jews have the same right to self-determination as anyone else.
We believe that this could amount to illegal discrimination. If you would have considered this social media communications role but are excluded on the basis of not being an “anti-Zionist”, please contact [email protected] so that we can consider legal action on your behalf.
MPs for Gaza?
Across Britain’s political landscape, one issue continues to receive extraordinary attention.
When they said their election victories were “for the people of Gaza”, they weren’t kidding.
According to an astonishing new analysis:
- One in ten urgent questions in the House of Commons since the last General Election have concerned Israel or Palestine.
- Since the last General Election, there have been seventeen urgent questions on Israel or Palestine, and this figure does not include questions on broader issues in the Middle East, which often return to those topics.
- Among several independent MPs elected in 2024, the number of times they have mentioned “Israel” or “Gaza” in Parliament substantially outnumbers their references to their own constituencies.It says something about the level of obsessiveness with the Jewish state that MPs appear to be more passionately focused on a country far away where Britain exercises very little influence than on their own constituencies.
It is remarkable that so few people ask why this one foreign state provokes so much more interest than any other. It is as clear evidence as any that the Jewish state of Israel is subject to a double standard – something the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism recognises as an example of antisemitism.
Tisha B’Av: yet another day marked by violence
Last week, a 50-year-old Jewish man was reportedly stabbed in the chest with a screwdriver after leaving a prayer service at a Manhattan synagogue in New York City. A 57-year-old Asian man was also reportedly stabbed by the same alleged attacker. Suspect Raul Morales, 51, was arrested at his apartment shortly afterwards.
Before both attacks, which are being investigated as hate crimes, the suspect was reportedly heard shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
Thankfully, after being taken to a nearby hospital, both victims are in stable condition.
From Yom Kippur in Manchester, to Chanukah on Bondi Beach, to Purim in Canada and now Tisha B’Av in New York, Jews cannot observe their festivals without being attacked.
We will continue to do everything that we can to fight this global scourge.
