“Everything about your existance is evil”: CAA writes to Home Office and Charity Commission over inflammatory speaker

Campaign Against Antisemitism is writing to the Home Office and the Charity Commission regarding an imam who is reported to have made a series of incendiary comments about Jews and Israel and is scheduled to speak at an upcoming charity event.

The event, hosted by the charity One Ummah, is part of a five-city tour titled ‘Together as One’, with its first stop at The Atrium in London on Wednesday.

Several video clips of Mufti Muhammad Ibn Muneer, a New York-based imam, making comments about Jews have been published online by Memri.

In one video from March 2024, he is heard saying: “Every single opportunity they get to kill someone, they kill someone. Every single opportunity. And they have the nerve to have a supposed Star of David, and supposedly attribute themselves to David. David has nothing to do with you. Solomon has nothing to do with you.”

Another video from 2018 shows him saying: “You make a statement or a comment about this, about that, about the Christians, about the Jews. What do they do? Huh? They get [sic] a problem. ‘We have to edit the video, Sheikh.’ ‘We have to make the video private, Sheikh, because you mentioned that the Jews are those who earned Allah’s wrath.’ ‘You said that the Jews are those who earned Allah’s wrath and they are jealous – we can’t publish the video.’”

In another from December 2024, he appears to say: “[For Israel], it’s much more than just conquering. It’s much more than just killing and annihilating. But [Israel says]: ‘We have to not only cleanse, but we now have to reinvent our identity and the identity of this land, and of this country, and of its geography.’”

According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism, e.g. blood libel, to characterise Israel or Israelis” is an example of antisemitism.

Mohamed Hoblos, an Australia-based preacher, is also due to speak at the events. Mr Hoblos is reported to have shown support for Hamas, a proscribed antisemitic genocidal terror group, and was banned from the Netherlands and Germany due to concerns over extremism.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “The rhetoric from some of these speakers is horrifying. There must be no place for religious extremism in Britain, and that principle is even more urgent at a time of skyrocketing antisemitism. Religious extremists should not be allowed to enter the country, let alone be hosted by a charity. We will be writing to the Charity Commission and the Home Office.”