Mein Kampf in Britain’s bookshops
An Arabic bookshop on Edgware Road in London is reportedly selling translations of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf – the book which defined the aggressively antisemitic and nationalist ideology of the Nazi Party.
Businesses should not be profiting from selling the most extreme anti-Jewish propaganda, particularly at a time when antisemitism in Britain is at record highs.
There is certainly a place for understanding history through annotated versions of texts which give important context, but not books that simply regurgitate hate and risk inciting violence.
This incident will rightly prompt questions about why this shop is selling these books, and why they are so popular among their clientele as to justify holding multiple copies in stock.
Our Chief Executive appeared on several media channels to discuss the incident – you can watch him on GB News here, and on Talk TV here.
We also took a trip to the bookshop itself – you can watch what happened in this video.
Education needs our attention
Headteachers of some Jewish schools are spending more of their time dealing with security arrangements than on educational matters.
This is the sobering reality of Jewish life in Britain.
Education in schools, worship in synagogues, entertainment at events – all of these things and more play second fiddle to security, which is the number one concern.
With antisemitism at painfully high levels, any assembly of Jewish people in Britain, young or old, is a security risk.
In one particular case, the head teacher of JFS – a Jewish faith secondary school in London – has revealed he has considered whether to stop after-school revision sessions due to regular reports of antisemitic incidents by students on their journeys home.
Appearing on a podcast, Dr David Moody said that since 7th October 2023 these reports would come in “a couple of times a week”, prompting him to ask himself: “is this safe to continue?” Dr Moody also revealed that a prospective visit to the school by King Charles III shortly after Hamas’ attacks on 7th October was abandoned, the reason being that “we just didn’t feel safe” raising the profile of the school in the current climate.
According to our polling, 98% of British Jews believe that, since October 2023, the level of antisemitism has increased compared to before. Jewish schoolchildren are among those bearing the brunt.
That is unforgivable.
But concerns aren’t just coming from outside of the classroom.
Meet Daniel Selywn, who is currently listed as a geography teacher at School 21, a school in Stratford, East London. Daniel has a photo of himself online at a protest with a sign labelling Zionism as “racist”, “imperialist” and “genocidal”.
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the same right to self-determination afforded to all other peoples of the world under Article 1 of the UN Charter. Only 6% of British Jews do not consider themselves to be Zionists, according to our polling.
What guarantee is there that these hateful views aren’t coming into the classroom?
It is therefore reassuring that Sir David Bell has recognised this tragic state of affairs early in his investigation – we listened to him share his initial thoughts on LBC last week, where he spoke of “the level of physical security” at Jewish faith schools being “quite extraordinary”.
Listen to more of what he had to say here.
The question now is what he – and ultimately the Government – will do about the current situation. We hope that Sir David takes the recommendations that we submitted to his review on board.
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Alleged Hamas links through charities – is the UK being too slow to act?
The Charity Commission has finally launched an investigation into the Al-Khair Foundation “over alleged links with Hamas”.
The UK has long been far too permissive when it comes to charities allegedly being used and abused by Islamist extremists and foreign states, and the Charity Commission has too often been too slow to act.
The Commission has the powers to proactively inspect, which should mean visiting certain mosques with charitable status to see what is being preached when concerns arise, and demanding much more detailed accounts and returns from charities which appear to be linked to overseas terrorist organisations – at the very least.
Charities receive relief at the expense of the taxpayer and the Commission should be ensuring that they are working for the benefit of the public, not extremists, terrorists and despotic theocratic regimes.
Separately, the US Government has accused a London resident of “funnelling cash to Hamas through two sham charities”.
The Daily Mail alleges not only that Mahmoud Al-Abyari is a senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and has been facilitating financial support to Hamas – but also that he has “not yet been questioned” by the Metropolitan Police. You can read more here.
Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation – and the Muslim Brotherhood should be too – so it is extraordinary that someone who has allegedly funded Hamas has apparently avoided a police investigation – and that it has taken a foreign government to draw attention to the alleged failure.
The authorities in Britain need to get serious and get a grip.
What does “Zionism” actually mean?
“I’m a raging Zionist!”
We went to Golders Green to ask Jewish people if they’re Zionists.
This is what they had to say.
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Who is funding pro-Palestine marches in Britain?
The question of who is funding pro-Palestine marches in Britain is at the heart of an investigation by US politicians into alleged secret Chinese backing of Code Pink, a group that has organised pro-Palestine marches in the UK.
The probe centres on Neville Roy Singham, described by the Telegraph as “a tech tycoon accused of financing Chinese propaganda around the world”. He is married to Code Pink’s founder.
Jason Smith, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the US Congress, has raised concerns about a funding network that he claims is linked to Mr Singham, and its reach into a range of controversial causes in both the US and the UK.
MPs like Sarah Champion and Alicia Kearns are right to call for the Government to investigate these concerning allegations.
If foreign actors are indeed funding division on Britain’s streets, the public deserves to know, and the Government has a responsibility to find out and take action.
Stalker detained indefinitely for antisemitic online abuse
A stalker has been detained indefinitely in hospital for directing antisemitic abuse towards judges.
Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring was one of approximately 50 judges to whom Richard Kendal, 62, had been sending abusive e-mails between January 2024 and July 2025. The e-mails included death threats, antisemitic slurs and Holocaust references.
It is understood that Mr Kendal’s conduct arose following a difficult divorce over a decade ago, and began harbouring “deep suspicions of a judicial conspiracy” against him.
In March, Mr Kendal, who is himself Jewish, was deemed unfit to stand trial. He was found responsible for racially aggravated stalking of the judges and their aides, and breaching a High Court order.
At Kingston Crown Court last week, Mr Kendal was handed a restraining order which prohibits him from contacting several of his targets, and has been confined to hospital for mental health treatment to protect the public.
An incredible life: Harry Heber MBE
This week we were saddened to hear of the passing of Holocaust survivor Harry Heber MBE.
Born in Innsbruck, Austria, Harry fled to Britain at the age of seven on the Kindertransport, alongside his elder sister Ruth, in 1938. This was shortly after the horrors of Kristallnacht – when Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues across Nazi Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia were violently attacked and destroyed.
Assisted by what is now World Jewish Relief, Harry’s parents later joined their children in the UK before the outbreak of the war, where they built a new life safe from Nazi persecution.
Giving back to the organisation which had saved his family, Harry used his career as an optician to voluntarily run World Jewish Relief’s Optical Programme, providing glasses for tens of thousands of vulnerable people across the world.
In 2023, Harry was decorated with an MBE for his services to charity and Holocaust education.
May his memory be a blessing.
As the world loses more Holocaust survivors each year, we are staunchly committed to confronting the evil from which they escaped, and which claimed millions of lives and continues to resurface even on the bookshelves of modern Britain.
We will not give up on that fight.
