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Far-right Austrian rapper sentenced to ten years in jail for glorifying Nazi ideology

Justice Minister Lord Wolfson defends the International Definition of Antisemitism, saying that it’s “Calumny to say that the fight against antisemitism shuts down free speech”

Labour’s NEC proscribes Labour Left Alliance, reportedly due to its stance on antisemitism

Slovakian Parliament commemorates victims of the Holocaust

NUS elects President who tweeted antisemitic chant and said that Jeremy Corbyn should never have been suspended from Labour Party

State of Kansas adopts the International Definition of Antisemitism

Chief Prosecutor’s report shows “omnipresent” antisemitism in Berlin

Israeli Knesset member’s virtual meeting zoombombed with antisemitic abuse

Controversial councillor who joked about “Jew process” and was expelled from Labour Party now joins Greens

Idaho politics rocked by indulgence of far-right

Denmark develops antisemitism action plan for schools

Russian invasion of Ukraine sees plethora of Nazi references, involvement of actual neo-Nazi soldiers, and divides opinion on the global far-right

Poster of Jewish MP defaced with swastika and Adolf Hitler moustache in Australia

European Council adopts new “conclusions” in the fight against antisemitism

Kentucky Republicans embroiled in numerous antisemitism controversies while Louisiana Democrat candidate for senate praises Louis Farrakhan

Australian State of New South Wales introduces bill to ban swastika

Labour Party antisemitism training uses mural defended by Jeremy Corbyn as example

Romanian officials pay tribute to hundreds of Holocaust refugees who died in sinking of ship

Canadian Mayor apologises for referring to rally that featured swastikas as “peaceful”

Sir Keir Starmer shows pragmatism over principle in revealing interview with Channel 4 News

German politician rebukes education officials over failure to remove antisemitic stereotypes from textbooks

Fury as Italian educators try to equate local massacre with the Holocaust

Sir Keir Starmer receives torrent of antisemitic abuse in connection with controversial Jimmy Savile claims

Fury as Brighton Labour readmits councillor suspended over antisemitism, while Labour councillor in Dudley yet to face sanction over his social media activity

Green Party rejects Ken Livingstone’s bid to join, and drops Shahrar Ali as policing spokesperson but not over antisemitism allegations

UN panel reports only seven Jews remain in Yemen due to persecution from Houthi rebels and Government

Unite suspends official who accused veteran Jewish MP of “weaponising the Holocaust” to push her “Zionist aims”

Czech Republic announces national strategy to combat antisemitism

US Vice President criticised for “disgusting” Holocaust Memorial Day trip to Honduras for inauguration of President beset by antisemitism allegations

Laura Pidcock quits Labour’s ruling NEC after motion to restore whip to antisemite Jeremy Corbyn fails

Israeli resolution combatting Holocaust denial gets overwhelming support at United Nations

Ken Livingstone declares intention to apply to join Green Party

Mayor leads condemnation of “vile” and “hateful” antisemitism at health board meeting in Massachusetts town

Jeremy Corbyn reportedly considering launching new party while allies seek to restore Labour whip to him

Labour MPs Grahame Morris, Nadia Whittome, John McDonnell and Lucy Powell all under pressure in relation to antisemitism

Alliance for the Union of Romanians Party criticised for dismissing Holocaust education as “minor topic”

Scottish Labour leader under pressure to discipline Mercedes Villalba MSP who called for Party whip to be returned to antisemitic former leader Jeremy Corbyn

Conservative councillor who claimed America, Israel and Saudi Arabia are a “trilogy of Zionists” and that “Zionism is one of the worst afflictions on the world” is permitted to re-join party after suspension

Leader of Dutch right-wing party ordered by judge to delete social media posts comparing COVID-19 restrictions to the Holocaust

Tory aide reportedly grabbed Jewish journalist’s face to check his nose and “judge his Jewishness”

Calls to remove new Austrian Interior Minister from position amid antisemitism allegations

Azerbaijan to commemorate International Holocaust Memorial Day for first time

Tory MP compares NHS COVID Pass to Nazi Germany during BBC Radio 5 interview

Today, as Labour Party is mandated by law to introduce semi-independent disciplinary process, CAA resubmits complaints against fifteen sitting Labour MPs including Angela Rayner

Lib Dem candidate apologises for tweets that appeared to compare English Channel migrants to Jewish inmates at Auschwitz

Labour councillor who chanted “From the River to the Sea” has whip removed and Jeremy Corbyn’s former legal head deselected, but elsewhere local Labour group passes motion praising Ken Loach

Philadelphia civil servant resigns after allegations of antisemitism and “fostering toxic work environment”

New poll reveals majority of Jewish Labour Party members do not find other local members friendly and welcoming

Far-left Dutch party labels event commemorating the Holocaust “inherently racist”

Scottish NHS staff “scared” after Tory councillor who previously apologised for comments appearing to diminish the Holocaust is appointed to health board

Antisemitism-denial group Labour Against the Witchhunt reportedly disbanding

Anti-racism trainer who ran Cabinet Office inclusivity workshop has record of comparing Israel to Nazis and wishing death on “Zionists” and was even barred from standing as a Labour candidate

Leicester City Labour councillor suspended over antisemitism allegations after allegedly accusing Sir Keir Starmer of being an “agent of Israel”

Australia bans the antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hizballah in its entirety

Jo Bird and Pamela Fitzpatrick are expelled from the Labour Party as pro-Corbyn former MP Laura Pidcock seeks to challenge the purge

Home Secretary vindicated in banning Hamas in full, following campaign by CAA and others, after it emerges that yesterday’s terrorist who murdered grandson of prominent British rabbi was member of Hamas’ supposed “political wing”

New survey shows antisemitic beliefs persist in Germany, especially among AfD supporters

Hope Not Hate rescinds award to artist after he appeared to downplay Labour antisemitism and was pictured with disgraced former MP Chris Williamson

Sir Keir Starmer insists that “anti-Zionist antisemitism is the antithesis of Labour tradition”

Four Scottish Labour MSPs pictured with antisemite Jeremy Corbyn over past week

Labour councillor in Redbridge reportedly has whip withdrawn after “offensive, misogynistic, antisemitic” conduct

Labour councillor who defended Jeremy Corbyn and Jackie Walker to lead Labour’s top disciplinary committee

JVL’s Graham Bash reportedly expelled from Labour Party

Neo-Nazi group British Movement and far-right group Patriotic Alternative hold joint demonstration in West Yorkshire

Richard Burgon to address controversial Halifax Friends of Palestine group

French court clears Jean-Marie Le Pen over “oven batch” remark about Jewish singer

Reports emerge that figure behind Labour’s one-sided anti-Israel motion is son of former Hamas health minister

Justin Welby apologises for comparing climate threat to Nazi Germany

UK Government ends direct funding of Palestinian Authority teachers, but not because of antisemitism

Secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt who participated in counter-demonstration against Jews protesting Labour antisemitism wins council job back

Conservative councillor accused of supporting far-right Patriotic Alternative resigns from Worthing Council

A year on from the EHRC’s report confirming Labour’s institutional antisemitism, progress remains slow

Green Party chaotically adopts five definitions of antisemitism in apparent attempt to dilute International Definition of Antisemitism used by all other parties

Cllr Tasleem Fazal reportedly readmitted to Labour group at Blackburn with Darwen Council despite suggesting that ISIS is a Jewish plot

Concerns raised over Slovenian Prime Minister’s “Soros puppets” tweet

Ireland to criminalise Holocaust denial

Deputy Chairperson in Irish Parliament reportedly claims Israel is trying to accomplish “Jewish supremacy”

World leaders speaking at Sweden conference call for stricter measures against antisemitism and Holocaust denial

Labour reportedly set to name and accuse five former staff, including Seumas Milne, Karie Murphy and Laura Murray, of leaking internal report on antisemitism

CAA praises UK and Australia for principled vote against hypocritical UN resolution that pretends to condemn racism while endorsing antisemitic Durban process

Candidate for Mayor of Rome faces backlash after saying Jews “control banks and a lobby capable of deciding the fate of the planet”

Conservatives confirm that inflammatory group calling itself “Conservative Friends of Palestine” is not affiliated to the Party

Antisemite Jeremy Corbyn insultingly appropriates memory of Cable Street as he shares stage with suspended Labour member accused of bullying Jewish MP

Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay elected new co-Leaders of Green Party in possible boost to fight against antisemitism in Party

Labour suspends Vice Chair of local party branch over remark about Sir Keir Starmer’s “Jewish wife”

Far-right organisation Britain First becomes a political party once again

Roundup of antisemitism news from Labour Conference as Sir Keir Starmer defends backing antisemite Jeremy Corbyn “100%”, saying any Labour government is better than the alternative

Dame Louise Ellman is first Labour exile to rejoin Labour but warns “there remains a great deal more to do to tackle antisemitism” in the Party

Madrid adopts International Definition of Antisemitism

Controversial activist Ghada Karmi accused Sir Keir Starmer of ‘weaponising antisemitism’ at Hackney Labour meeting

JVL co-Chair expelled from Labour Party as antisemitism-denial group and sham Jewish representative organisation hosts yet another outrageous event at Labour conference

Over a quarter of Labour conference votes against new semi-independent disciplinary process mandated by EHRC as Sir Keir Starmer absurdly claims vote “closed the door on shameful chapter”

CAA report: Britain’s political parties and antisemitism

Jewish delegates warned they may face heckling at Labour Party conference as antisemitism-deniers out in force

Eight members of Labour’s ruling NEC vote against rule changes mandated by EHRC, while new poll of potential Labour voters shows Jeremy Corbyn’s failures on antisemitism drag Party down

CAA disappointed that Lib Dems condemn Palestinian Authority and Hamas persecution against “LGBT+ community and women” but omit Jews

‘Unluckiest anti-racist’ Jeremy Corbyn happens to find himself due to share platform with actor who tweeted about Jewish toddlers having their “cute little horns filed off”

Co-chair of Momentum previously claimed former Labour MP Luciana Berger was “disingenuous” about antisemitism in the Party and helped further “right-wing extremism”

Green Party leadership candidates elaborate on their views on tackling antisemitism in the Party

Jeremy Corbyn’s controversial liaison to Jewish community under investigation by Labour over alleged antisemitism denial, while JVL plans fringe event after spate of expulsion threats

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