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With multiple local councillors and a Party activist suspended by the Labour Party, in some cases over antisemitism, Sandwell Labour appears to have a serious problem

Police investigating “targeted” cyber-attack on annual gala dinner of major Jewish communal organisation, leading to speculation of an antisemitic motivation

Wife of former Conservative MP and minister makes concerning references to “Jewish lobby” in her political memoir

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey says he is “furious” that Greta Sidhu-Robb was shortlisted as Party candidate and says vetting system is “completely flawed”

“It’s absolutely shocking – a giant symbol of hate”: Swastika spray-painted on car near Bristol over Yom Kippur

Nordic Resistance Movement targets Jewish communities during Yom Kippur, days after Finland’s Supreme Court upheld ban on the neo-Nazi group

Saudi official praised for fighting antisemitism now accused of past antisemitic remarks

Hungarian opposition parties under fire for backing politician with history of antisemitic statements

SOAS professor accuses Israel of being a “Western virus” and exploiting the Holocaust for political ends

Tech giants act to halt online hate for one day only, as they move to block webinar featuring convicted terrorist

Russia asked to show ‘zero tolerance’ for antisemitism by community leaders after attack on Moscow Jewish community centre

Swastikas found on walls of school in Rome, days after antisemitic poster appears in Milan

Controversial Polish priest is banned by Archdiocese of Edmonton in Canada

“You represent the two things I hate most: You’re Jewish and French,” Hyper Cacher terrorist told hostages, court hears

Finland’s Supreme Court maintains ban on Neo-Nazi group

As Metropolitan Police confirm to CAA that Wiley was not in the UK during his antisemitic tirade, CAA instructs lawyers to pursue the case abroad

Neo-Nazi apologist jailed by French court

Two Labour councillors in Cumbria investigated for alleged antisemitic comments online

Two teenagers suspected of graffitiing swastikas in Borehamwood arrested

Suspended nurse who led anti-mask protests defends her use of “Auschwitz” and “Nazi” comparisons

The Guardian corrects Ruth Bader Ginsburg obituary following complaints by CAA and others

Swastika graffiti discovered over Rosh Hashanah in Preston

CAA excited to announce launch of international coverage

Visibly Jewish couple has foreign object thrown at their car in Stamford Hill

Labour Shadow Minister Lyn Brown reportedly endorses JVL member who said antisemitism is a “smear” promoted by “Israeli diplomatic service” for Party’s ruling NEC

Court fines two men for yelling “Go back to where you came from” to Jews on Carlisle train

As CAA turns six and Rosh Hashanah approaches, whatever next year brings, together we will do whatever it takes to defend against antisemitism

“Ultranationalist” terrorist group, the British Hand, is recruiting children on Instagram and Telegram

Fears that New IRA in Northern Ireland is courting and being armed by antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hizballah

Maxine Peake, who shared antisemitic conspiracy theory, attends JVL annual conference and describes it as “wonderful”

Sir David Attenborough holds reunion for families of two Jewish refugee sisters who came on the Kindertransport and were looked after by his parents

John McDonnell says it’s “ridiculous” to think he “shared a platform” with expelled antisemite Jackie Walker even though he is president of the LRC where she is an officer

CAA disgusted and concerned at fascist New British Union’s youth recruitment

Sir Keir Starmer admits Labour’s sixteen-month-long investigation into suspended NEC member Pete Willsman over antisemitism allegations is taking “too long”

Hacktivist group Anonymous posts antisemitic cartoon by notorious Carlos Latuff suggesting that Israel and the United States use accusations of antisemitism to muzzle criticism of Israel

Liberal Democrats drop prospective London mayoral candidate after her past antisemitism is revealed

Spitting Image under fire for caricature of Mark Zuckerberg with gratuitously big nose

CAA reveals that BBC journalist Nimesh Thaker, now under investigation by the BBC, shared antisemitic posts and trolled BBC colleagues in his own name

Police appeal for witnesses after man shouts antisemitic abuse in Carlisle

Two Haringey Labour councillors suspended by Party in relation to antisemitism in the latest of antisemitism scandals at the local authority

Teenager from Rugby linked to neo-Nazi groups faces terror charge after praising terrorists and searching about guns online

JVL-backed crowd-funder for “Labour Party members who have been caught up in the absurdities of Labour’s disciplinary processes” raises almost £30,000

Warwick University rejects complaint by Warwick Jewish and Israel Society against lecturer who said allegations of Labour antisemitism are “very much an Israeli lobby kind of idea”

Following complaints by Socialists of Colour, Labour is investigating three candidates for Party’s ruling NEC over antisemitism and racism

Matt Le Tissier is right to apologise for comparing rules on mask-wearing during COVID-19 pandemic to the Holocaust

Conservatives suspend Cllr Jacqui Harris for the second time after CAA brings her social media history to the Party’s attention

Antisemitic hate preacher David Icke joined on stage by conspiracist Piers Corbyn in rally against pandemic rules that included supporters of British Union of Fascists

CAA writes to the Charity Commission calling for statutory investigation into Islamic World Relief after its entire trustee board resigns in antisemitism scandal

Gateshead Jewish housing association’s proposal to build homes on land it owns with private funds meets objections utilising antisemitic tropes

ACORN confirms to CAA that its national board has swiftly expelled member who turned away Jewish man, saying “no time for Zionists sorry”, in example of best practice in dealing with antisemitism

Praise for Acorn for swiftly acting against Manchester branch which refused membership to a Jew saying “no time for Zionists sorry”, but CAA will monitor the outcome of the investigation

Police investigating antisemitic e-mail sent to Jewish Chronicle and numerous local councillors

Lib Dem leadership hopeful Layla Moran describes Hamas terrorist group as “authoritarian, antisemitic and homophobic”

A spate of videos featuring teenage girls pretending to be Holocaust survivors is TikTok’s latest antisemitic abomination

Jeremy Corbyn couldn’t empathise with ‘prosperous’ Jewish community and declined to visit Auschwitz or make other gestures of reconciliation, according to new book

CAA provides our ground-breaking report on adoption of International Definition of Antisemitism by local authorities to Local Government Secretary Robert Jenrick as a resource for his department

Has your council adopted it yet? CAA report reveals extent of adoption of the International Definition of Antisemitism by local authorities across the UK

Wiley says “I was shut down by Facebook, and we all know who owns it”

Kerry-Anne Mendoza, disgraced editor of The Canary blog, appears to double down yet again on comparison of Israel to Nazis

Leader of neo-Nazi Hundred Handers group unmasked in new report that also warns against far-right Patriotic Alternative

Hacktivist group Anonymous posts antisemitic mural defended by Jeremy Corbyn on social media and Facebook declines to act

Conservatives take a staggering eight months to investigate allegations of antisemitism with still no end in sight

Jewish Wimbledon champion and campaigner against antisemitism Angela Buxton has died

Pushback after Labour Party’s General Secretary warns local CLPs not to discuss EHRC investigation, settlement with Panorama whistleblowers or International Definition of Antisemitism

Police officer appears in court charged with membership of proscribed neo-Nazi National Action terrorist group

New analysis suggests Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content

CAA to complain to The Guardian over characterisation of antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel was to blame for racist killing of George Floyd as merely “anti-Israel”

CAA applauds Architects Registration Board for removing architect from register who claimed Judaism is a “cult” and Jews should be banned from “important public office”

Urban Dictionary removes antisemitic definitions of “anti-Zionism” after campaign by CAA and allies, but offensive definitions continue to be reposted

It took a week, but Gateshead Council is today removing graffiti after being alerted by CAA and Shomrim

CAA hails “positive start” as Ivors Academy resolves to establish Ethics Committee to review past awards following our call for Wiley’s 2019 Ivors Inspiration Award to be rescinded

Editor of The Canary compares Israel to the Nazis, in breach of International Definition of Antisemitism

TikTok becomes latest social media platform to delete Wiley’s account

Holocaust denier David Irving praised by American activist Norman Finkelstein at pro-Corbyn meeting, where David Miller also continued venomously targeting Jewish charities

Urban Dictionary’s Twitter bot reveals website’s promotion of antisemitism to the world

Elderly patient reportedly ‘hit’ by hospital worker “after being identified as Jewish”

New report shows worrying levels of antisemitism in Britain’s Muslim community, including higher levels among the university-educated

Woman behind Jeremy Corbyn legal fund is involved with a company that aims to “end the politicisation of Jewish suffering”

CAA sounds alarm over black-shirted paramilitary group in South London led by a man who rails against ‘Zionist bloodlines’

CAA part of global coalition of 140 groups calling on Facebook to adopt International Definition of Antisemitism just as the social media giant says it “wants to listen and learn”

Virtual Zoom shiva for grieving husband disrupted by neo-Nazis broadcasting antisemitic messages and images of swastikas and Hitler

Man who told Jewish student “I’m a German — we should have gassed the f***ing lot of you” reportedly identified after media appeal

Cabinet Office confirms to CAA that request to withdraw Wiley’s MBE is now being reviewed, as CAA also launches Parliamentary petition for racists to be stripped of their honours automatically

Power of CPS to shut down private prosecutions must be reformed, CAA says in evidence to House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry

International Olympics Committee apologises for tweet that appeared to celebrate the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany

Amazon, Google and Wish remove neo-Nazi products

Labour tried to have Party whistleblower prosecuted, and now Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington CLP debates rejection of International Definition of Antisemitism

Port Vale to appeal FA’s six-match ban and £3,500 fine for footballer Tom Pope over antisemitic Twitter post

Donors to unofficial crowd-funder for Jeremy Corbyn’s legal expenses post horrendous comments denying Labour antisemitism and equating Zionism with racism

CAA launches petitions calling for racists like Wiley to be stripped of MBEs and for the Government to bring forward Online Harms Bill this year

Following Wiley’s antisemitic rampage, more than 700 musicians and members of the music industry sign letter decrying racism

Wiley finally banned from YouTube following appeal by CAA

Disgraced former MP Chris Williamson publishes unhinged conspiracy theory video claiming “Zionists” and CAA control the “racist” EHRC in service to the Conservative Party

CAA action results in three new criminal charges against notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz

CAA calls for Labour and Co-operative MP Barry Sheerman to lose the whip following doubly antisemitic “silver shekels” tweet

CAA disappointed that Independent Doctors Federation hosted Prof. John Ashton who has a long history of antisemitic comments

Two JVL members to be sued for defamation by journalist John Ware in connection with Panorama expose of Labour antisemitism

Wiley is not an ‘inspiration’: CAA and Ivors member and past awards panellist write to Ivors Academy calling for Wiley’s Ivors Inspiration Award to be rescinded

Twitter permanently bans former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke a month after YouTube

CAA appealing Google’s decision to allow Wiley to broadcast to 250,000 YouTube subscribers, including video taunting unnamed powerful cabal to take his passport away

We are seeking to recruit a General Counsel a Solicitor a Legal Researcher a School and Campus Educator to join our London office

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Campaign Against Antisemitism is a volunteer-led charity dedicated to exposing and countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance enforcement of the law. Everything that we do is done by people who volunteer their time, using donations contributed by members of the public. Join the fight against antisemitism by subscribing to our updates, volunteering, or donating.