Echoes of the Corbyn years in the local elections All parties will discover, when the scrutiny intensifies during an election period, that some of their thousands of local council candidates
On Sunday, Campaign Against Antisemitism, backed by major Jewish communal organisations, led an estimated 70,000 in Britain’s March Against Antisemitism from the BBC, where comedian and broadcaster Josh Howie spoke
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, but as we reflect on historic antisemitism, as a society we also have to ask ourselves: why are we doing so little about antisemitism right
New polling of British Jews by Campaign Against Antisemitism has revealed a number of alarming insights. The study covers how secure British Jews feel, their views on the criminal justice
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, is going to be lecturing on British campuses. She has previously posted about “the Jewish lobby” and is alleged
In a recent YouTube interview, Sir Alan Duncan, a former Minister and former Conservative Party MP, suggested that Robert Jenrick, a sitting Conservative MP, supports Israel due to “family connections
Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) commissioned YouGov to survey British adults’ attitudes towards Jews. The polling has revealed very concerning levels of support for Hamas and antisemitic views, especially among young
Councillor Atiqul Hoque, the former Conservative Mayor of Salisbury, has apologised after a number of “offensive and inappropriate” messages were leaked. In a published statement, issued on his behalf, it
The Labour Party arrives in Government as levels of anti-Jewish racism have skyrocketed and rocked the Jewish community for months. Our polling of British Jews is proof of the widespread
The Conservative Party has cleared Sir Alan Duncan, a former Minister and MP for the Party, of accusations of using antisemitic tropes on-air, following an investigation. Sir Alan was under
Antisemitism is a major issue for so many voters in the Jewish community and among our allies. That is why, when this election was called, Campaign Against Antisemitism jumped into
All elections are about a range of issues, but with the surge in antisemitism since the Hamas attack last October, for so many Jews and our allies, so much of
Over the past few weeks, we have been monitoring developments across all political parties, first among local council candidates and councillors in the run-up to and aftermath of the local
A Conservative MP has hired a former Labour Party councillor who has a history of making inflammatory comments about Jews. Paul Bristow, the Conservative MP for Peterborough, hired Ansar Ali,
It has been revealed that the Conservative Party received fourteen complaints of antisemitism in 2022. The revelation comes a year after an independent report conducted by Prof. Swaran Singh. A
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
A newly-elected councillor, 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
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
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
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
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
The Conservatives have removed the whip from Andrew Bridgen MP after he appeared to compare COVID-19 vaccines to the Holocaust. In a tweet published this morning, Mr Bridgen posted an article about the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the
A Conservative Party councillor has resigned after his ties to a far-right group have emerged. Andy Weatherhead, who represented Hythe West on Kent County Council, was revealed to be a
A Birkbeck professor appeared to agree with the spurious claim that the International Definition of Antisemitism “restricts” debate on Israel. Responding to a claim by an audience member that the Definition “does restrict what people can
It has taken Manchester Conservatives some five months to remove from its website a local election candidate whose endorsement from the Party was revoked after social media revelations. On 12th April, it was reported, Sham Raja
A councillor representing the Conservatives in Derbyshire has been suspended for five years after allegedly sharing social media posts containing inflammatory remarks about Jews. It is claimed that Philip Rose
Campaign Against Antisemitism has this week written to the Conservative Party in relation to a disturbing pattern of incidents in the Bury North and South Conservative Association, which we and others have publicised in
A Conservative Party councillor in Worcester has apologised after he sent a video that was reported to have been antisemitic in nature to a WhatsApp group. Cllr Allah Ditta sent
A local council candidate who had his endorsement by the Conservatives revoked has allegedly gone on to represent the Party at a hustings. Sham Raja, who was the Conservatives’ candidate
Scrutiny is mounting over numerous allegations of antisemitism and other concerning claims among Conservatives in Bury. Shaf Mahmood, who was due to stand as a Conservative candidate in the Redvales ward, saw his endorsement from the
The Chair of the Enfield Southgate Conservative Association has been suspended pending an investigation after a photograph emerged apparently showing him dressed in full Nazi military regalia. The image appears
A Conservative councillor who was suspended from the Party last year over social media posts, before being permitted to re-join, has resigned from the Thomas Deacon Education Trust. The Trust has confirmed to Campaign Against
A Conservative councillor who was suspended last year over social media posts has reportedly been permitted to re-join the Party. A spokesperson for Peterborough Conservatives reportedly confirmed that Ishfaq Hussain, who represents the city’s Dogsthorpe ward,
An aide working for the Conservative Party reportedly grabbed a Jewish journalist’s face in order to check his nose and “judge his Jewishness”. Alexander Brown, a Westminster Correspondent based in
Marcus Fysh, the Conservative Party MP for Yeovil, compared the NHS COVID Pass to Nazi Germany during a BBC Radio 5 interview earlier this week. During the interview, Mr Fysh
Scottish NHS staff are reportedly “scared” after a Conservative councillor who previously apologised for comments appearing to diminish the Holocaust was appointed to a health board. In a post on a martial arts forum several years
A former supporter of Jeremy Corbyn who sought to run as a Conservative candidate in local council elections has reportedly been suspended by the Conservative Party after it emerged that he administrated a Facebook group that
A councillor for the Conservative Party who had been suspended after being accused of supporting the far-right group Patriotic Alternative has now resigned from Worthing Council. Tim Wills is alleged to have joined a Patriotic Alternative chat room on the
The Conservatives have reportedly confirmed that the inflammatory group that calls itself “Conservative Friends of Palestine” is not affiliated to the Party. The so-called Conservative Friends of Palestine, which operates a website and a
Concerns have been expressed over a Conservative councillor who appeared to entertain an equation of the COVID vaccine with Zyklon B on Twitter. A Twitter user wrote, “I fear that this vaccination is this
A councillor for the Conservative Party has been suspended after he being accused of supporting the far-right group Patriotic Alternative. The group is known for its efforts to recruit youth
A video has emerged of Piers Corbyn claiming that allegations of antisemitism against him and his brother Jeremy Corbyn, the antisemitic former Labour Party Leader, are a “pack of lies”.
The antisemitic former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is scheduled to appear at an event with an actor who tweeted about Jewish toddlers having their “cute little horns filed off”. Numerous past comments by
The Leader of Calderdale Council has refused to act against a fellow councillor who organised an anti-Israel rally last month, where it was reported that antisemitic chanting and a sign
A Scottish National Party (SNP) MP has apologised for, and deleted, a tweet in which he wrote that “Murdering babies wasn’t on the Nazi manifesto.” However, another tweet in which
A Conservative councillor in Bury who had the Party whip removed after he allegedly made antisemitic comments in a job interview has reportedly been reinstated by the Party “with immediate effect”. Cllr Robert (Bob)
Ryan Houghton, a Conservative councillor who was previously suspended over antisemitic Facebook posts which diminished the Holocaust, has withdrawn from his role as the next Leader of the Aberdeen Conservatives
There have been mixed results for candidates with controversial histories relating to the Jewish community and antisemitism in last week’s local elections. The candidates hail from all political parties and
Ryan Houghton, a Tory councillor who was previously suspended over antisemitic Facebook posts which diminished the Holocaust, has now been made the Leader of the Aberdeen Conservatives. In a post
Darran Davies, the Conservative candidate who used an antisemitic slur on Facebook has won a seat in the Hillingdon Council election. Mr Davies won with 2,098 votes while Labour candidate
Several parliamentary candidates in Peterborough, belonging to both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, have been accused of antisemitism, resulting in suspensions. It has been reported that in response
A Conservative candidate in the coming local elections has reportedly expressed remorse over a social media post that included the phrase “Jew Boy”. Darran Davies, who is standing in Hillingdon in London, is alleged
A Scottish National Party (SNP) candidate in the forthcoming Scottish elections has apologised after comments from 2017 emerged in which she had reportedly compared tactics by the Conservatives to Hitler and the Holocaust. Stephanie
A Conservative councillor in Bury has reportedly had the Party whip removed after making allegedly antisemitic comments in a job interview. Cllr Robert (Bob) Caserta was found to have breached the Code of Conduct for
The Conservative Party has reportedly dropped a local council candidate after she referenced the “Aryan race” in a tweet to her local MP, who is Jewish. Sharon Thomason was in a Twitter dialogue with
The Conservative Party has reportedly confirmed that it has issued a warning to one of its MPs after he appeared on The Richie Allen Show. Sir Desmond Swayne was on the internet radio program to discuss
It has been revealed that Sir Desmond Swayne, has appeared on The Richie Allen Show. The Conservative MP was on the internet radio program to discuss coronavirus and the lockdown. The Richie Allen Show has featured
Tom Tugendhat MP has asserted that Shami Chakrabarti “only got her peerage because she cosied up and covered up antisemitism in the Labour Party”. The Conservative MP and Chairman of the House
Today is the one-year anniversary of the Conservatives’ announcement of three antisemitism investigations. To date, the Tories have only disclosed that one has concluded, with those into Sally-Ann Hart MP
The All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Antisemitism (APPG) has warned a group of Conservative MPs and peers against the use of the controversial phrase “cultural Marxism”, noting that the term could “inadvertently” act as
Canada’s new Conservative Party Leader has promised to act against antisemitism. Erin O’Toole told an online audience that the Conservative Party has “total unanimity” on its strong support for issues
The wife of a former Conservative MP and minister has been criticised over references to the “Jewish lobby” in her political diaries. In her new Diary of an MP’s Wife, Lady Sasha Swire,
With the Jewish New Year upon us, Campaign Against Antisemitism marks the sixth anniversary of our launch and reflects on some key moments and achievements of the past year. It
Jacqui Harris, a local councillor, has been suspended again from the Conservatives after Campaign Against Antisemitism brought her social media history to the Party’s attention. Cllr Harris is currently a
Back during the closing days of the General Election in December 2019, the Conservative Party announced that it was commencing investigations into alleged antisemitism on the part of three parliamentary candidates
The Conservative backbench MP Chris Green has apologised for retweeting a poem referencing ‘Rothschilds’ and ‘New World Order’. Mr Green, the MP for Bolton West, earlier retweeted and then deleted a video in
The Conservative MP Chris Green retweeted and then deleted a video in which the controversial comedian Chris McGlade reads a poem called “The Right to Hate”. The poem is dedicated to
The Conservatives in Scotland have readmitted a former parliamentary candidate and councillor who made comments minimising the Holocaust after a “robust investigation” during which he apologised, but apparently there is
A Tory activist and member who was suspended from the Scottish Conservatives over racist social media posts has now been found to have posted antisemitic remarks as well. Lorraine Cullen,
A Conservative councillor and former Lord Mayor of Portsmouth has been suspended by his Party after reportedly baking a swastika into a hot cross bun and posting the image on
At yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions, which was Jeremy Corbyn’s last as leader of the Labour Party, Boris Johnson praised the Leader of the Opposition without referencing his antisemitism and the
Michael Gove, the Conservative frontbencher, has accused the leader of the Labour Party of trying to “smuggle into our political conversation antisemitic expressions and antisemitic tropes.” Mr Gove made the
Conservative MP Daniel Kawczynski has come under fire for attending a ‘national conservatism’ conference featuring controversial European politicians, including the prominent Italian politician, Matteo Salvini, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán
Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to John Bercow seeking further information about his account of antisemitism in the Conservative Party. Mr Bercow, a longtime MP who left the Conservative Party
A general election candidate suspended by the Scottish Conservative Party is still a councillor for the Party on Aberdeen City Council. Ryan Houghton, had been the Conservatives’ candidate for Aberdeen
Andrew Percy, the MP who leads the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antisemitism, has criticised both major parties for tolerating a “disgusting rise in antisemitism tropes”. Speaking last week during the Holocaust
The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has given an impassioned condemnation of antisemitism in comments to Parliament. Responding to a question in the House of Commons about marking Holocaust Memorial Day
The Conservative Party is reportedly investigating Councillor Mohammad Aslam over posts he allegedly shared on Facebook, including a claim that Jewish Labour MP, Ruth Smeeth, who lost her seat in
Two successful Conservative election candidates have separately disclosed that they faced antisemitic abuse during their general election campaigns. Tom Tugenhat, the returned MP for Tonbridge and Malling in Kent and
Relief in the Jewish community is palpable after the country resoundingly rejected the politics of hate. Conservative frontbencher Michael Gove gave a powerful reassurance to the Jewish community this morning,
The Conservative Party is reportedly investigating three parliamentary candidates over alleged antisemitism. The candidates — Sally-Ann Hart in Hastings, Lee Anderson in Ashfield and Richard Short in St Helens South
A Conservative candidate suggested that a Jewish journalist, Melanie Phillips, may have dual loyalty to Israel in a past social media post. In June 2013, Richard Short, now a Conservative
The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, was heckled at a general election hustings for raising Labour’s institutional antisemitism in the debate. The event, in his constituency of West Suffolk, elicited cries
The Conservative Party has reportedly suspended, Amjad Bashir, their general election candidate for Leeds North East, who claimed that young British Jewish men were returning from Israel as “brainwashed extremists.”
The Sunday Telegraph has run a front page story quoting James Cleverly, the Chairman of the Conservative Party, saying: “A number of Jewish friends of mine…have just said that if
Rory Stewart, the Conservative MP turned independent, told ITV’s Peston that he believed that Ken Livingstone was London’s best mayor. Mr Stewart recently announced a bid for the mayoralty and
The Conservative MP Crispin Blunt made a reference to “the demand for special status” on the part of British Jews in an interview on the sidelines of the Conservative Party
Erupting on BBC’s Politics Live programme, the Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker passionately insisted that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn would not be appointed as Prime Minister by the MPs in
The resignation today of British Prime Minister Theresa May has unleashed a wave of antisemitic posts on social media. ‘Syed Umar’ exclaimed “Good riddance Zionist bitch” on Twitter. Notorious antisemite,
Prominent Conservative Party backbencher Jacob Rees Mogg has defended his decision to promote a speech by the leader of the far-right German political party, Alternative for Deutschland (AfD). Mr Rees
Conservative MP Suella Braverman has refused to apologise or revise her language after using the term “cultural Marxism” in a meeting of the Bruges Group, a right-wing think tank in
Conservative MP Andrew Percy has spoken out in a House of Commons debate to brand former MP George Galloway a racist and a Jew-baiter over comments he made on Sky
The Labour Party is set to lose control over Brighton and Hove City Council as one of its councillors, Anne Meadows, has told the BBC that she is leaving the
Conservative MEPs have voted in support of Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, and against the activation of Article 7 by the European Parliament, which enables it to take action
The Liberal Democrats are reportedly set to join the Scottish National Party and Conservative Party in adopting the International Definition of Antisemitism in full, this Tuesday. The move leaves the
This morning it was revealed that Lord Sheikh, a Conservative peer and founder of the Conservative Muslim Forum, had apparently attended the same conference in Tunisia as that attended by
An influential group of young leaders, including the Chair of UKIP’s youth wing have been exposed as members of a Facebook group which spews antisemitic content. Hope not Hate, a
The resignation of Priti Patel as Secretary of State for International Development has unleashed some disturbing comments, including from politicians and journalists who have carelessly or deliberately evoked sinister stereotypes
Campaign Against Antisemitism is determinedly apolitical, as should be the fight against antisemitism. Unfortunately, as our database of antisemitism in political parties shows, some parties fight antisemitism, and others let
The Conservative candidate for South East Cornwall, Sheryll Murray, has said that she was “sickened” after swastikas were carved into one of her election posters. Mrs Murray told Jewish News: “I am sickened
