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The Islamic Centre of England has suspended all activities until “further notice”. The news arrives after we reported earlier this month that the Charity Commission has taken action against the Centre, appointing an interim manager. A notice affixed to the Centre’s locked gates reads: “After receiving the concerns of the community and for their safety, […]
Following action from Campaign Against Antisemitism, the former barrister Ian Millard is set to be prosecuted for five offences contrary to section 127 (1)(a) Communications Act 2003 in relation to the posting of grossly offensive material relating to his assertions regarding the Jewish race on his blog. In October 2016, the Bar Standards Board found […]
A video has recently surfaced online of the champion of the 2023 Pokémon Trading Card Game Hartford Regionals with a swastika shaved into the back of his head. Rowan Stavenow has since posted the following statement on his Twitter account: “To all the members of the Pokémon community who have been hurt by the video […]
A video appears to show a woman ranting at an identifiably Jewish man about Zionists taking over the north London area of Tottenham. In the video, a woman sitting outside of a restaurant can be heard saying: “Don’t want you in Tottenham, you’re not welcome. Stay in Muswell Hill. And I’m not being racist.” She […]
A TikTok prankster was fined £365 today, but not for his persistent harassment of Jews. The prankster known as Mizzy appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a Community Protection Notice after one of his videos in which he entered a family’s home went viral. In addition to […]
Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd musician, reportedly began a recent concert in Berlin by announcing that he is not antisemitic, shorty before making comparisons between the Nazis to Israel. At one point during the concert, various names are displayed on large screens. A journalist at the concert reported that Anne Frank’s name was prominently […]
Wikipedia has banned three editors from writing articles on Poland during World War II after it was discovered that articles were being written which apparently absolve Poland of its role in the Holocaust. The investigation was launched by Wikipedia’s Arbitration Committee after an academic study concluded that the editors in question had propagated misinformation by […]
A microbiology professor in Germany was acquitted after being charged with inciting hatred in relation to comments that he made equating Israel to Nazi Germany. Sucharit Bhakdi, 74, is a former head of the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is a member of the fringe political […]
The Mayor of Sacramento shut down an antisemitic rant by a member of the public during a City Council meeting. Mayor Darrell Steinberg interrupted the speaker’s rant, stating: “OK, see you later, pal. We don’t want to hear any more from you. We don’t want to hear any more of your s***.” Mr Steinberg, who […]
Education authorities in Saudi Arabia have reportedly removed a substantial amount of antisemitic rhetoric from the Kingdom’s Islamic Studies textbooks. The research group IMPACT-se has been tracking the progress of the expungement of this material, and has reported that “practically all antisemitism” has been removed from Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Studies educational resources, which represents a […]
A new document, titled A Jewish-Christian Glossary, produced by the Church of Scotland and the Chief Rabbi’s Office, has been published. The new Glossary explores a variety of biblical terminology, such as “covenant” and “chosen people”, and gives both Jewish and Christian perspectives in relation to identity and history. One of the publication’s forewords, written […]
The University of Maryland is investigating a report of antisemitic slurs and symbols discovered inside the La Plata Residence Hall. Those responsible are yet to be found. This report is not the first of its kind. The University’s estimated 6,000 Jewish students have previously reported numerous incidents of antisemitism on campus. The University of Maryland […]
A TikTok prankster has elicited widespread outrage over his recent videos, but only since he started targeting people other than Jews. Earlier this year, we reported that the TikTok user, known online as Mizzy, was arrested for “assaulting a member of the Jewish community.” Mizzy, whose real name is Bacari Ogarro, appeared to confirm on […]
The Scottish First Minister has assured the Jewish community that he is an ally. Humza Yousaf, who took over from former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon in March, met with members of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities and the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council. He also toured Giffnock Newton Mearns synagogue. In a statement, Mr Yousaf […]
A German court has upheld a police ban of the annual Nakba demonstration in Berlin, due to fears that it could incite antisemitism. The police stated that the event could lead to “antisemitic incitement of the people, glorification of violence, the conveyance of a willingness to use violence and thus to intimidation and violence.” The […]
In Highland Park a dustbin was vandalised with swastikas. Deni Caplan, a local Jewish resident of the Illinois neighbourhood, stated that: “It’s horrifying. I live on-edge day-to-day, and each day it gets closer and closer, and now it’s down the block from me.” The vandals are yet to be found. According to the FBI, over […]
The Mayor of Odessa has apologised for comments that he made about the Jewish community during a Board of Aldermen meeting. Stephen Wright stated that his remarks “were not in keeping with the beliefs and values of the City of Odessa…It was not my intent to degrade or marginalise anyone, or any group of people, […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism will write to the General Medical Council (GMC) over a doctor’s alleged tweets. The alleged tweets, as highlighted by an online activist, appear to be published from an account between the years of 2019 and 2022 which make references to “Jewish supremacy”. One alleged tweet claims that “Israel is nothing but a […]
A swastika has been drawn onto a tree in the north west London area of Kilburn, a Twitter user reported this afternoon. A photograph shows the tree, said to be located on Kilburn High Road, with an orange swastika inside of a pink heart on its trunk. Earlier this week, we reported that a swastika […]
A swastika has been drawn onto a wall in Watford. Campaign Against Antisemitism has seen a photograph that appears to show a large, black swastika scrawled onto a wall near Watford High Street. The hate symbol was said to have been spotted this morning at approximately 9:30. Campaign Against Antisemitism’s analysis of Home Office statistics […]
A microbiology professor in Germany is facing criminal charges after allegedly equating Israel to the Nazis. Sucharit Bhakdi, 74, is a member of the fringe political party ‘Die Basis’ and will appear in court this month in connection with his controversial statements. In a campaign video, he stated: “The people who fled from this land where […]
Nazi memorabilia has been offered for sale in an online auction in Brooklyn, New York. Items available for purchase in the “estate liquidation auction” held by Antique Arena include Nazi propaganda posters, Ghetto Police armbands, the yellow Star of David badges that Jewish people were forced to wear by the Nazis, and a canister of […]
German Teenagers appeared to give Nazi salutes whilst visiting Auschwitz in a photograph recently disseminated on social media. The group from Leipzig visited the notorious former death camp, in which more than a million people are estimated to have perished, as part of an educational trip. The now-removed image reportedly displayed four teenagers, two of […]
A recording of an Adolf Hitler speech was played over the speaker system of a train travelling to Vienna. David Stoegmueller, a Green Party MP who was on board the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) train at the time, said that “We heard two episodes. First there was 30 seconds of a Hitler speech, and then […]
Two men who have been charged with stirring up racial hatred after they reportedly performed the “Khaybar” chant at a London protest in 2021 pleaded “not guilty” today at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The chant “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud” can be translated in English as “Jews, remember the battle of Khaybar, the […]
Mahmoud Abbas, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mazen, has accused Israel of “lying like Goebbels” in his latest equation of the Jewish state to Nazis. The autocratic President of the Palestinian Authority made the claim in a speech to the United Nations this week to mark “Nakba Day” (“Catastrophe Day”), which bewails […]
A student was found guilty of plotting to blow up a Newcastle police station this week. Luke Skelton, nineteen from Washington, was convicted at Teesside Crown Court of preparing to commit acts of terrorism. The jury’s decision came after a previous panel failed to reach a decision. The court heard that Mr Skelton absorbed far-right […]
A far-right podcaster has been jailed for producing antisemitic and racist podcasts on grounds of stirring up racial hatred. James Allchurch, 51 from Pembrokeshire, was discovered to have created the website “Radio Aryan”, later named “Radio Albion”, in order to upload antisemitic and racist podcasts. Mr Allchurch was found guilty of ten offences contrary to […]
The Labour Party’s claim to have suspended a councillor is once again being called into question, nine months after similar concerns were raised, after further evidence has arisen appearing to show that the local Labour group continues to include him in its activities. Cllr Mohammed Iqbal, who served, until his reported suspension, as the leader of the Labour Group […]
An ice-cream stand set up on private property directly outside Auschwitz has refused to close despite the offence its presence has caused. The site managers of the notorious former death camp, in which more than a million people are estimated to have perished, described the ice-cream stand as “tasteless” and “disrespectful”. The stand appeared in […]
Switzerland has agreed to erect a monument to commemorate the victims of the Nazis. The Swiss Federal Council has committed the equivalent of £2.2 billion to fund the memorial, which will be situated in Bern, its capital. The Swiss Federal Council stated: “The Federal Council considers it an important task to keep alive the memory […]
A Conservative MP has become embroiled in controversy over her use of the phrase “cultural Marxism”. Speaking on young people’s futures at this year’s National Conservatism conference, Miriam Cates MP told the audience: “That hope is sadly diminishing in so many of our young people today, because liberal individualism has proven to be completely powerless […]
A man has pleaded guilty to stirring up racial hatred by sharing 130 pieces of white supremacist content. Richard Osbourne, 53 from Solihull, was said to have posted content to the Russian social media platform VK, which is believed to have an active user base of at least 60 million. Birmingham Crown Court heard that […]
Arsenal Football Club is in contact with the police as part of its investigation into posts sent through a fan-led Whatsapp group that the Club supports. The investigation relates to messages sent in 2019 through a group chat for Ashburton Army, an organisation for Arsenal supporters. Whilst the group itself is separate from the Club, […]
Today’s anti-Israel protest outside Downing Street in London, believed to have been attended by thousands, featured a number of comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany. Volunteers from Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Demonstration and Event Monitoring Unit were present at the protest to gather evidence. One sign read “Free Palestine from German guilt,” while a large banner […]
Newly surfaced video footage appears to show a man physically threatening a Jewish person on a London bus. The man in the video can be seen shouting what appears to be slurs to the person recording. At one point, the man appears to say: “You shouldn’t be in Palestine, you’re some f***ing murderers…kill people’s children.” […]
A far-right individual has been sentenced to eight years and six months imprisonment for terrorism offences. Vaughn Dolphin, 20, who filmed himself accidentally blowing up his kitchen while attempting to mix explosives, was sentenced in Birmingham Crown Court after being convicted of possession of terrorist documents; disseminating terrorist publications; possession of explosive substances; and possession […]
The Charity Commission has taken action against the Islamic Centre of England (ICE), appointing an interim manager. Solicitor Emma Moody has reportedly been tasked with overseeing the charity and undertaking a review of its governance and administration. The move follows numerous complaints against leaders at ICE as a result of several concerning reports of inflammatory […]
A police officer attacked Africa’s oldest synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, shooting and killing four people. The attack occurred on 9th May at the Ghriba Synagogue in Djerba, during a Lag B’Omer annual pilgrimage which attracts thousands of Jews to the Tunisian island. The police officer killed two security guards before opening fire on the visitors, […]
The Chairman of a charity is alleged to have shared posts about “Zio-zombies” and claims that Israel masterminded the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Nasar Mahmood, Chairman of the Manchester-based British Muslim Heritage Centre (BMHC), is also reported to have used his social media to publish other incendiary posts and conspiracy theories, including the accusation that Israel […]
A Liverpool man who was found to be in possession of neo-Nazi documents was jailed on terrorism offences yesterday. Counter Terrorism Police first became aware of Nicholas Street after he was discovered to be in connection with a man who had attempted to purchase a firearm. West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit further uncovered messages exchanged […]
Dutch police arrested over 150 football supporters for chanting antisemitic slurs. AT5, a local news station, reported that those arrested were AZ Alkmaar supporters. The incident occurred close to Ajax Amsterdam’s stadium at a metro station on 6th May. Amsterdam has had multiple Jewish chairman and is widely viewed in the country as the ‘Jewish […]
Video footage has shown what appears to be a torrent of verbal abuse being hurled at Jewish people at the Park Avenue Hotel in Clapton Common, near Stamford Hill. The video shows a woman seemingly telling the person recording that “The beast will come for you people soon”, quoting the number “666”, known as the […]
A suspect has been arrested following reported verbal abuse against Jewish passersby. In one piece of video footage, a man seems to yell “Jewish motherf***ers” to someone filming. In another, an individual, who appears to be the same man, shouts what sounds like “f***ing Jewish” to a person driving a car. The alleged incident occurred […]
An arrest has been made following reports of verbal abuse against a Jewish woman in the North London area of Stamford Hill. The suspect allegedly told the Jewish woman: “One day I will kill all you Jews!” The alleged incident occurred on the corner of High Road and Ravensdale Road at 14:30 on 2nd May, […]
Ofcom has found GB News, the conservative news and opinion channel, to be in breach of broadcasting rules over comparisons made between the rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations to practices carried out in “pre-Nazi Germany”. The breach referred to Rule 2.1 of Ofcom’s code, which states that “Generally accepted standards must be applied to the contents […]
Neo-Nazi content has reportedly been discovered on the social media of the Dallas mall shooter. The 33-year-old shooter is suspected of murdering nine people and injuring ten at an outlet mall in Allen, a suburb of Dallas, Texas, on 6th May. The gunman was killed by police at the scene. The suspect is reported to […]
A rock was thrown at an identifiably Jewish man while entering a synagogue in Queens, New York. The alleged incident occurred on Shabbat morning on 6th May. The rock was thrown by an unknown individual from a “white Sprinter van with graffiti on the sides.” The New York Police Department reported that they are still […]
The far-right group Patriotic Alternative (PA) has reportedly split, with a newer, splinter group forming in Scotland. The newer organisation, “Homeland”, is said to comprise every former Scottish member of PA, as well as a number of former members from across the UK. The group’s leader, Kenny Smith, the former organiser for PA’s Scottish branch, […]
A man reported to be a member of the far-right group Patriotic Alternative said that Adolf Hitler did “nothing wrong”, members of the Old Bailey were told. Kristofer Thomas Kearney, 39, has been described as an “alleged far-right fitness guru” who operated under the online moniker of Charlie Big Potatoes. Originally from Liverpool, Mr Kearney […]
A candidate in last week’s local elections who was barred from running for Labour after the Party was alerted to his history of inflammatory activity on social media but who was endorsed instead by the Conservatives as their candidate has been elected, even as the Party appears, ambiguously, to be trying to distance itself from […]
Antisemitic abuse was reported at the scene of riots in Manipur, India. Two synagogues and 210 Jewish homes were burned down in the riot this week. Members of the Bnei Menashe community in Manipur reported that rioters shouted “go back to Israel where you belong” while attacking their community. There has been ongoing violence in […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism is writing to Loughborough University over a number of incendiary tweets comparing Zionists to Nazis, as first reported by the Gnasher Jew Twitter account The tweets are believed to come from the account of Fazal Rehman who, according to his Twitter account, works at the University in the maintenance department. In one […]
A newly-surfaced video appears to show men in a car loudly playing a Hizballah song outside of a Jewish school in London. In the video posted by the JC, men are seemingly seen singing and laughing in a car whilst filming a group of young children. A caption at the top says “Drove past the […]
Susanna Fogel, an award-winning director, screenwriter, and one of the creators behind the biographical drama A Small Light, a National Geographic miniseries streaming on Disney+, appeared on the most recent episode of Podcast Against Antisemitism where she spoke on her experiences of creating the series. A Small Light takes a look at the remarkable real-life […]
A former Mint Press News journalist has been arrested in connection with the spray-painting of a swastika onto a synagogue in Oak Park, Illinois. Randi Nord was reportedly charged with ethnic intimidation, a felony carrying a maximum penalty of two years in prison, and malicious destruction of a building, a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty […]
Antisemitic slurs were directed at members of an Ohio high school’s lacrosse team. During a match on 1st May at Elyria Catholic High School, the slurs were shouted at Orange High School’s team, many of whose players are Jewish. Orange’s Superintendent Lyn Campbell said: “We are actively investigating the situation, and details will be provided […]
Greece’s Supreme Court has banned a far-right party linked to a neo-Nazi group from participating in the May general election. Nine out of ten Supreme Court judges backed the prohibition on the Hellenes Party, asserting that its “racist and intolerant ideas” were dangerous for democracy. Hellenes was formed in 2020, shortly after which its founder, […]
A synagogue in Detroit, Michigan, was vandalised with swastika graffiti. Rabbi Mendel Polter of Woodward Avenue Synagogue in Oak Park, Detroit reported that a swastika and pro-Nazi propaganda was spray-painted on the front of the building on 1st May. In the same week, a swastika was also painted on a buggy in the Oak Park […]
Incendiary chants relating to Jewish people and Israel were chanted on the street in Berlin during a demonstration in Berlin. The 1st May anti-Israel rally in Germany’s capital featured the chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” was heard. This chant only makes sense as a call for the destruction of […]
Ofcom has fined the television channel Ahlebait TV £10,000 for “antisemitic hate speech”. The fine comes less than one year after the regulator put the television channel on notice after deciding that it had breached hate speech regulations. The media watchdog made the initial ruling last year against Ahlebait TV, which offers “current affairs and […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism is calling upon Katherine Viner, editor-in-chief at The Guardian, to resign after the newspaper published an antisemitic cartoon on Friday night. The now-deleted cartoon, drawn by Martin Rowson, depicted Richard Sharp, who last week resigned as Chairman of the BBC, and evoked several antisemitic tropes. Mr Sharp, who is Jewish, is portrayed […]
An assailant who assaulted a Jewish man in New York City in May 2021 has had his sentence extended following public outrage. Waseem Awawdeh attacked Joseph Borden in Manhattan in May 2021, during the war between Hamas and Israel. He pleaded guilty to the charges of attempted assault and criminal weapon possession. According to a […]
Antisemitic abuse has been found on a King’s School WhatsApp group. Students at the prestigious private school in Sydney, New South Wales exchanged antisemitic and racist rhetoric on a WhatsApp group called “Studies of Religion Group Chat” in late April. One pupil wrote: “I’m cool with muzzlims and pretty much everyone as long as they […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism has assisted a Jewish victim of unfair dismissal to vindicate his complaint against his former employer and achieve a major compensation package. The victim was invited by his line manager to wear a kippah (skullcap) to a Jewish religious event that the company was hosting two weeks later. Having already intended to […]
Brazil has banned use of the messaging app Telegram after the company allegedly failed to cooperate with a federal investigation into neo-Nazi user activity which reportedly incited violent attacks. The ban, which follows a temporary ban last year, came after Telegram refused to provide user data for two antisemitic group chats. The Brazilian authorities have […]
Swastikas and antisemitic slurs were discovered on a blackboard in Davidson College, North Carolina this week. Photographs of the graffiti, discovered on 26th April on the blackboard of an outdoor classroom, were circulated on social media over the weekend. College President Doug Hicks released a statement announcing that local police were investigating the incident and […]
A magistrate and Labour Party councillor has been issued a formal warning by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) over Facebook posts containing “antisemitic content”. The warning relates to posts said to have been made between 2015 and 2019 that are believed to be behind Ansar Hussain’s suspension from the Party in May of last […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism will be writing to both the Charity Commission and the Honours Forfeiture Committee over incendiary social media posts that are understood to have been shared by the Chief Executive of the British Muslim Heritage Centre. Maqsood Ahmad OBE is reported by the Jewish News to have posted several inflammatory tweets in reference […]
A recent report has found that almost 500 antisemitic incidents took place in Poland in 2022. The study was conducted by JTA, a Jewish association based in Warsaw. JTA’s findings of 488 incidents are more than four times the number reported for 2021 by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. The data was collected […]
A known neo-Nazi has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of projecting a laser message across the Anne Frank house which implied that her diary was a forgery. The message was allegedly projected by Robert Wilson in February. The message claimed that Anne Frank was the “inventor of the ballpoint pen”, an assertion that references a […]
A Jewish fireman has taken a Battalion Chief in the Melbourne Fire Department to court for allegedly giving a Nazi salute in a photograph. Aaron Starkey filed the federal complaint against Chief Jody Kohler in late April. The prosecution showed a photograph appearing to show Chief Kohler dressed in a Melbourne Fire Department polo-shirt, while […]
A Jewish man has reportedly been punched in the face in Stamford Hill. The alleged victim was said to be walking with a friend in towards Braydon Road Clapton Common when the suspect, described as being a Black male riding a bicycle, supposedly intentionally rode into the victim’s friend. The suspect reportedly then turned around […]
The Conservative Party has expelled Andrew Bridgen MP after he appeared to compare COVID-19 vaccines to the Holocaust. The move arrives after the Party removed the whip from Mr Bridgen in January following a tweet in which he posted an article about the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the lead American agency handling the […]
A group was spotted celebrating Hitler’s birthday and posing with Nazi flags at a restaurant in central Taiwan. James Curly (姆士捲), a Taiwanese social media influencer, posted an image of the group holding up Nazi flags on his Facebook and Instagram accounts. Mr. Curly told Taiwan News that he saw the men greet one another […]
A Jewish teenager was assaulted at his school in Las Vegas, Nevada. Images have been circulated on social media of a swastika scratched into his skin. The incident was reported to have taken place on 30th March in a school in the Clark County School District (CCSD). The FBI is investigating the case after the […]
The Lord Mayor of Norwich has apologised to the Jewish community for the first known instance of the antisemitic blood libel. The original antisemitic blood libel dates to 1144 when Jews were falsely accused of the murder of a boy known as William of Norwich. Following this, accusations of blood libel grew in the Middle […]
A Canadian university professor has been convicted of carrying out a 1980 terrorist bombing outside a synagogue in Paris. Hassan Diab, 69, a Lebanese-born sociologist of Palestinian-Arab heritage at Carleton University in Ottawa, has been given a life sentence for planting the motorcycle bomb outside the Rue Copernic Synagogue. Four people were killed and 46 […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism is to submit a complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC) in relation to a prominent junior doctor with a history of inflammatory posts on social media. Dr Martin Whyte, a Deputy Chair of the Junior Doctors’ Committee who also sits on the Executive of the British Medical Association (BMA), has been […]
The Labour Party has suspended Diane Abbott after she claimed that Jewish people cannot suffer “racism”. Ms Abbott, who has a history of minimising antisemitism in the Labour Party, made the claim in a letter to The Observer newspaper. The letter, published today, was in response to an article by Tomiwa Owolade in last week’s […]
A swastika has been discovered at Dartmouth College. It has been reported that, earlier this week, a swastika was found carved into the ground at the College in New Hampshire. It is understood that the symbol has since been reported to the College and subsequently been removed. In an e-mail to its staff and students, […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism has launched our summer internship programme, and applications are now open. The internship programme takes place at our office in Central London from 14th to 27th August 2023. Students wanting to help us tackle the world’s oldest hatred are invited to spend two weeks this summer making Britain a safer place for […]
A Jewish woman and baby were reportedly spat on in North London. The pair, who were said to be travelling on the 67 bus at the time of the reported incident, were also allegedly the victims of a verbal assault. The suspect has been described as being a man with a small beard who is […]
An arrest has been made after a Jewish home in Stamford Hill was reportedly vandalised and threats were allegedly made against the family. The home’s mezuzah – a decorative case containing a Jewish prayer that is traditionally fixed to the doorpost of a Jewish home – was reportedly stolen, the carpet was said to have […]
A mural commemorating victims of the Holocaust has been defaced in Italy. Track 21, the Simpsons deported to Auschwitz, a Holocaust mural by Italian artist, aleXandro Palombo, was found defaced earlier this week, on Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). The mural, based on the cartoon show, The Simpsons, depicts emaciated versions of the cartoon characters […]
The Conservatives have endorsed a candidate in the local elections who was barred from running for Labour after the Party was alerted to his history of inflammatory activity on social media. Shakeel Munir Hussain had hoped to run as a Labour candidate in Stockton-on-Tees in the coming local election as he has on previous occasions, […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism is writing to the University of Gloucestershire over incendiary comments made by its Visa and Immigration Officer about Zionists and Hamas. Comments posted to the Twitter account of Joe Sucksmith, who is said to work at the University in the student-facing role, included saying that “Zionists should stfu [shut the f*** up] […]
A man who shared antisemitic messages and quotes from Adolf Hitler online has been jailed for twelve months after being found guilty of stirring up racial hatred. Gareth Anthony Brett, 35 from Poole, used his Twitter and Telegram platforms to disseminate the racist posts to his 2,000 followers, Bournemouth Crown Court heard. Mr Brett reportedly […]
Yesterday’s “Al Quds Day” rally in central London saw numerous signs and chants that called for Israel’s destruction, as well as several comparisons to Nazis. The “Al Quds Day” rallies are an Iranian-backed global event, but they have faced controversy over expressions of antisemitism and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. In previous […]
Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to Staffordshire University and West Midlands Police following reports that a Regional Course Director at the University shared conspiratorial posts about Jews. Dr Rizwan Mustafa, whose role at the University includes overseeing accredited training programmes for new police recruits, has reportedly been under investigation since February following the publication of […]
A man reportedly shouted comments about Jews and blood outside of a Stamford Hill synagogue, in addition to other alleged antisemitic remarks, before driving off. The suspect was said to be a middle-aged man in a silver Mercedes, which was reportedly parked outside of the synagogue. The alleged incident took place at 19:20 on 8th […]
Baroness Warsi is due to speak at a conference alongside a United Nations (UN) official who has made controversial remarks about Jews. It is understood that Baroness Warsi, a controversial member of the House of Lords and the Conservative Party, will be speaking at a conference organised by The Balfour Project. The keynote speaker for […]
Two incendiary chants concerning Jewish people and Israel were recited on the street in Luton during a demonstration, online footage has shown. In the video, the chant “Khaybar Khaybar, ya yahud, Jaish Muhammad, sa yahud” can be heard, which, translated in English, means “Jews, remember the battle of Khaybar, the army of Muhammad is returning.” […]
A candidate for a council in Derbyshire allegedly published a series of controversial tweets about Jews. The Twitter account is claimed by Gnasher Jew to belong to David Aris-Sutton, who is currently running as a candidate for High Peak Borough Council. Some of the alleged tweets include comparisons of Israelis to Nazis, the characterisation of […]
A father and son were told by a bicycle repairman that Jews would be charged more for repair of their scooter because “they have all the money.” The customers came to their local bicycle shop in North London to fix the wheels of the child’s scooter. When the father asked how much the repair would […]
The incoming General Secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) has come under fire over his past remarks and appearances. Daniel Kebede, an activist and teacher based in north-east England, is due to become the leading teachers’ union’s new General Secretary later this year. He is replacing Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney. Mr Courtney […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has “issued advice” to a solicitor following a complaint by Campaign Against Antisemitism about his social media activity. After a member of the public brought the online conduct of solicitor Michael Walton, formerly of NP Law, to our attention, we submitted a complaint in respect of numerous posts that he […]
A teenager who pleaded guilty to sharing videos that promoted neo-Nazi and white supremacist content was given a three-year community order on Friday. Oliver Riley, nineteen from Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in July on terrorism charges. Mr Riley was convicted of three counts of possession of a document or record containing information […]
Police have failed a rabbi in Golders Green who was the victim of antisemitic violence and abuse in a parking dispute. The rabbi, who wishes to remain anonymous, was in his car with his wife and children preparing to park in a parking space that was being vacated. Another car was forced to wait behind […]