The High Court sides with Palestine Action
The proscription of Palestine Action has been ruled “disproportionate” by the High Court.
The group remains proscribed for now while the Government pursues an appeal. The co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, has called the decision “a monumental victory.”
It is appalling that a court would be prepared to decriminalise an organisation whose sole purpose is to engage in criminal activity. It demonstrates that law and order has not only broken down in this country, but that the criminal justice system is not fit for purpose.
Our system of justice seems incapable of holding people accountable so long as the crime is committed ‘for Palestine’ — even a sledgehammer wielding thug accused of breaking a police officer’s spine.
For the Jewish community, which has borne the brunt of much of Palestine Action’s criminality, this is another sign that the legal system is simply not on their side and has neither the ability nor, it increasingly seems, the willingness, to protect them.
Our Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman, addressed these concerns when he appeared on LBC News shortly after the verdict was announced.
This shocking verdict is only the latest in a long series of injustices that the legal system has permitted against British Jews.
Other examples include smashing a police officer’s back with a sledgehammer, calling for Jewish women to be raped and wielding a knife at a kosher supermarket.
You can get away with all of this in lawless Britain. That is, if you did it for Palestine.
Take ten minutes to watch this video to see how far Britain’s fallen.
The Government must now take action to ensure that, one way or another, Palestine Action remains banned.
If it fails on this, there is practically nothing else left to show.
ISIS-inspired plotters jailed
Whilst one Court’s decision failed British Jews, another’s upheld justice.
Two Islamic State supporters have been sentenced to prison after plotting a deadly gun attack on Manchester’s Jewish community.
Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, were sentenced after having previously been found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court, having bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for a suicide attack that they planned on Jewish targets. They were given minimum prison terms of 37 and 26 years respectively.
We welcome these firm sentences.
Our country came within a hair’s breadth of its own Bondi Beach mass shooting of Jews.
Terrorists like these need only to be lucky once; our police and security services do not have that luxury.
As murderous Islamist extremism spreads within our society, appeasement will only reap lethal results, as the Yom Kippur terrorist attack in Manchester and this foiled plot remind us. We need to be seeing a similarly robust response to antisemitic criminality however it manifests.
These anti-Jewish ‘purity tests’ are sinister
This week, up and down the UK we have watched scenes reminiscent of a dark time we thought society had long left behind.
Extremists have been going door to door in Brighton interrogating people about whether or not they intend to boycott Israeli products.
And if they don’t? It seems that the so-called ‘activists’ make a note of those refusing.
This buzzy coastal city is famed for its tolerance and vibrant cultural diversity. Clearly, this doesn’t apply when it comes to Jews.
The same campaign reached two other major UK cities in Sheffield and Bristol.
If you’re Jewish in Britain today, there’s a good chance you may be harassed by pro-Palestine fanatics as they attempt to force you to denounce Israel — the world’s only Jewish state — in order to pass their perverse purity tests.
This type of racist intimidation makes no exceptions, as actor and comedian Matt Lucas found out when he was accosted while simply trying to go about his day.
Intimidating Jewish celebrities is not some righteous form of progressive activism. It is the behaviour of dangerous obsessives and needs to be called out as such.
It appears that the Green Party has also caught this ‘purity test’ bug.
Green Party activists have reportedly called for Zionism to be classed as a “racist ideology” in a new “Zionism is Racism” motion which is set to be proposed at their upcoming Spring Conference.
We have seen such things before in bygone eras and would have hoped that they had been consigned to the dustbin of history.
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.
The overwhelming majority of British Jews identify as Zionist. It is an essential part of their Jewishness. This motion would effectively declare them inherently racist and would open the door to a frightening witch-hunt against Jews.
It is appalling that the Green Party would even consider affirming an explicitly anti-Zionist position.
Not only should this motion be refused consideration, but those who proposed it should be expelled from the Party.
Antisemitic incidents are rising, but not everyone can see it
Anti-Jewish hate crimes are becoming a standard sight in British society, from violent rhetoric spouted on hate marches, to vandalism and graffiti plastering the words “Intifada” all over British streets, even to planned — and thankfully, foiled — terrorist attacks.
The current climate for British Jews is deeply concerning.
But what is actually being done about it? This was the question that MP Bob Blackman posed in the House of Commons, which you can watch here.
We were featured heavily in the media this week to discuss this alarming surge in antisemitic crimes. You can listen to our Director of Investigations and Enforcement, Stephen Silverman on LBC News here, and watch Gideon Falter, our Chief Executive, on TalkTV here.
It is clear that something is very wrong, and it needs urgent attention to protect the safety and future of British Jews in this country.
Unfortunately, not everyone can see how urgent the need to combat antisemitism is.
On a recent podcast episode with guest Ash Sarkar, journalist Dr Myriam Francois attempted to claim that Government funds are being unduly spent defending a minority against a secondary racism, using a classic antisemitic trope about Jewish wealth to do so. You can watch the clip here.
She is effectively arguing that because there are some Jewish billionaires in Britain, all Jews are therefore wealthy and privileged and they cannot possibly be as vulnerable or maligned as is being claimed.
It is hard to know where the ignorance ends and the prejudice begins.
It is insulting that Dr Francois dismisses the reality that British Jews are living through — to the point that a majority of them no longer see a future in this country — because she found some Jewish names on the rich list.
It might be ironic were it not so darkly dangerous too.
Our coverage of this incident was widely shared on X by some big accounts, and has garnered over half a million views — and counting.
There is a big problem in London’s universities
Last week, University College London (UCL) celebrated its 200th birthday. Happy birthday, UCL!
We sent them our regards, with a suggestion that perhaps their birthday wish should root out the antisemitism that has taken hold in the past few years — as seen in a video from last year which you can watch here.
Sadly, it did not take long for our wishes to go out the window.
The day after this milestone celebration, protestors on UCL’s campus resumed their familiar calls for “Intifada”. The Metropolitan Police confirmed to us that an arrest was made.
The same day, over at King’s College London, an individual addressed a crowd where they said that “we can learn from Palestinians…when they organised in their mass strikes, in their uprisings, like the Intifada in 1987.”
Is it any wonder that 59% of British Jews have said that they would not feel comfortable physically or verbally disclosing their Jewish identity at a university?
What is happening at these institutions?
Extremism gets an online platform
A social media app similar to TikTok which allows users to post uncensored extremist material, reportedly including antisemitic posts and content which shows support for terrorist organisations, is surging in popularity.
UpScrolled is an app launched in June 2025 which is currently estimated to have 2.5 million users, has been downloaded over six million times, and. in January, was listed as one of the most downloaded apps in the UK.
Many verified accounts on the platform are those of far right extremists, and alarming organisations such as the media channel of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, called Al-Furqan.
But whilst social media appears rampant with antisemitism, thankfully it looks like measures will be taken to combat extremism in the broadcast sector.
The UK’s broadcast regulator Ofcom is said to be reviewing the broadcasting licence of LuaLuaTV, the London-based television station which allegedly functions as a propaganda media outlet for the Iranian regime.
LuaLuaTV, whose parent company is alleged to be linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has reportedly glorified various proscribed terrorist organisations, including Hizballah and Hamas, some of whose leaders have been interviewed on the network.
These recent revelations have contributed to the mounting pressure on Ofcom, which had previously refused to intervene due to the fact that the channel is only available as an online streaming service.
Extremism is becoming all-too easily accessible.
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This week we also commemorated several important dates in Jewish history.
On 15th February we remembered the bravery of security guard and member of the Danish Jewish community, Dan Uzan, who in 2015 was murdered by the antisemitic terrorist group ISIS as he protected 80 guests at a Bat Mitzvah at the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen.
May his memory be a blessing.
On the same day in 1919, one of the bloodiest pogroms against Jews during the Ukrainian War of Independence took place in Proskurov, where in barely four hours, it is estimated that around 1,500 Jews were murdered, and a further 1,000 were injured.
We remembered the dark chapters in Jewish history, but we also reflected on more hopeful ones. We applauded the news of an initiative in Damascus, Syria, where a once-abandoned synagogue has been formally reopened as an attempt to revive the country’s historic Jewish presence. You can read more about this here.
As antisemitism once again rears its ugly head, we remember what we have overcome before, and what we will overcome again.
