Is lawlessness increasing?
3rd November 2025
An analysis by Campaign Against Antisemitism of new Home Office statistics recently released shows that Jews are more than nine times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any
An analysis by Campaign Against Antisemitism of new Home Office statistics recently released shows that Jews are more than nine times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any
We have notified Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police of our intention to bring a judicial review of the decision to ban away fans from attending the match between
Three Nazi-inspired extremists have been jailed for up to eleven years for plotting terrorist attacks on synagogues and mosques. Christopher Ringrose, 34, Marco Pitzettu, 25, and Brogan Stewart, 25 –
A Coventry man has been jailed after publishing a TikTok video in which he targeted a Jewish man whom he believed to be serving in the IDF. Shakeel Yunis, 44,
Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, who has appeared on BBC’s Bargain Hunt, was sentenced to over two years’ imprisonment on Thursday at the Old Bailey. Last month, Mr Ojiri pleaded guilty to
Abu Wadei, whose real name is understood to be Mosab Al Qasas, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment today at Canterbury Crown Court. He was sentenced after he pleaded guilty
Faiz Shah, 23, Mohammad Comrie, 23, and Elijah Ogunnubi-Sime, 20, have been sentenced to eight years and one month in prison after pleading guilty to manipulating Itay Kashti, an Israeli Jew, into traveling
It has now been revealed that permission for the first anti-Israel protest was sought already on 7th October 2023, while Hamas was still slaughtering Jews in southern Israel. The permission
A trainee pharmacist was sentenced in court yesterday for a message he sent on social media to a university’s Israel student society. Mohammad Al Accad, 24, also known as Suhail,
A lot of British Jews and our friends — and those who care about the social fabric in Britain — have been wondering whether 2025 is going to turn the
As Christmas approaches, activists are gearing up for their annual attempts to airbrush Jews out of the story of the birth of Jesus. This year, those attempts even included a
A man who published antisemitic posts online, including one that called to “eradicate every Zionist,” was sentenced to a twelve months’ imprisonment yesterday in court. Mohammed Nafees Ahmed, 32, of
Two teenage girls avoided custodial sentences after they were convicted of a series of antisemitic attacks in London. The two girls, whose identities remain anonymous due to their young age,
A protester was convicted and fined yesterday after wearing a sign labelling the Jewish Chaplain at the University of Leeds a “war criminal” and a “pervert”. Serena Fenton, 56, was
A student at the Ivy League university, Cornell, who pleaded guilty to posting a series of threatening, antisemitic messages on a campus message board last year, has been sentenced to
Anjem Choudary, one of Britain’s leading Islamists, has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 28 years after he was found guilty of directing terror group
Earlier this year, brave staff members of a kosher supermarket in Golders Green defended themselves against a man wielding a knife in an antisemitic incident. Campaign Against Antisemitism spoke with
Heba Alhayek, 29, Pauline Ankunda, 26, and Noimutu Taiwo, 27, were given twelve-month conditional discharges at Westminster Magistrates’ Court earlier this year after being convicted of terrorism offences. During a
A police officer who admitted to sharing pro-Hamas images and was convicted of terrorism offences, was sentenced yesterday to a community order. Mohammed Adil, 26, from Bradford, was a district
After over seven years of action by Campaign Against Antisemitism, the former barrister Ian Millard has been handed a shockingly lenient sentence at Southampton Magistrates’ Court. In November last year,
The Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has today struck off solicitor Farrukh Najeeb Husain after finding a number of his social media posts to be antisemitic and offensive. The Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) investigated
A former Royal Air Force cadet, who was responsible for far-right graffiti, was sentenced in court on Thursday. Aristedes Haynes, 17, of Cwmavon in Wales, was sentenced at the Old
A former prison officer who shared neo-Nazi rap songs was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment on Thursday. Ashley Podsiad-Sharp, 42, from Barnsley, was sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on the
A judge has described Abdullah Qureshi’s crimes as “terrible events for the entire Jewish community” before handing down his sentence in relation to racially aggravated assaults that Mr Qureshi committed
A man who downloaded bomb-making material was sentenced to two years and six months’ imprisonment on Monday. David Bodill, 29 from Buxton, was convicted and sentenced at Manchester Crown Court
A man who called for the extermination of Jewish people and whose house was adorned with Nazi paraphernalia, including a portrait of Adolf Hitler, has been jailed. Samuel Doyle, 40,
An Arsenal Football Club supporter who shouted “Hitler should have finished the job” was sentenced today at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court. Daniel Down, 29, pleaded guilty and was sentenced for
A Leeds tenant has been sentenced after pleading guilty in connection with antisemitic e-mails to her landlord following an eviction notice. Julie Ann Rycroft, 66 and now of Garforth, was
A teenager has been sentenced following his guilty plea to terror charges. Matthew King, 19, from Wickford in Essex, was sentenced at the Old Bailey to a life-sentence with a
Suleiman Othman has received a two month sentence after pleading guilty to a violent antisemitic assault. The victim, Blake Zavadsky, and his friend were waiting for a shop to open
A German man has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for attempting to carry out an arson attack on a synagogue. The incident took place on
The Hamburg Regional Court has refused to view the brutal attack of a sixty-one-year-old Jewish man as an antisemitic crime. Andreas Roger underwent three operations and has been left blind
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
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
An Everton fan has been convicted over antisemitic insults at a football match against Tottenham Hotspur. Neil McManniman, 46, was convicted of religiously aggravated harassment at Liverpool Crown Court and given a suspended
A Welsh neo-Nazi has been sentenced to at least six years in prison today, after pleading guilty last July to membership in a proscribed neo-Nazi terror group. Luca Benincasa, 20, became the first person
Two individuals have been sentenced after shouting “Free Palestine” at an identifiably Jewish couple in Manchester last year. The incident took place in the summer of 2021 in Crumpsall in
A man who was arrested after punching two identifiably Jewish men to the ground in London has today pleaded guilty to assault and possession of a weapon but not guilty
Two minors have been sentenced in Germany following a brutal assault on a Jewish man in Hamburg last year. The court heard how the two unnamed brothers, aged seventeen and fifteen, approached
A football supporter who performed a Nazi salute at fans of Tottenham Hotspur has been banned from attending matches for three years. Shay Asher, 24, who is a fan of
A German soldier who holds far-right views has been found guilty of attempting to carry out “false flag” attacks on politicians and people in the public eye while pretending to
The Court of Appeal has struck down Nicholas Nelson’s original sentence and sent him to prison immediately, after Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote to the Attorney General’s Office asking that the
A far-right extremist has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty to four offences at Manchester Crown Court. Scott Mason, 36, was found with what the police describe as
Four members of a neo-Nazi gang who shared antisemitic material with each other via the social media platform Telegram have been jailed for a total of 31 years. The group was convicted under anti-terrorism
Alex Davies, 27, has been sentenced today to eight and-a-half years after he was convicted last month of membership of the neo-Nazi terrorist group, National Action. Mr Davies, of Swansea, was found guilty last month by a
A neo-Nazi has been jailed for three years for continuing to be a member of the far-right terror group National Action after they had been named as a proscribed organisation.
A fourteen-year-old from Darlington has been sentenced after pleading guilty to terror charges, which made him the youngest person to be convicted on terror offences. The schoolboy previously admitted three counts of possessing information
A sixteen-year-old boy who allegedly wrote on Twitter, “I am a domestic terror threat. I will bomb a synagogue,” and appeared to begin trying to realise this ambition has outrageously
Following action taken by Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Solicitor General has confirmed that he will refer Nicholas Nelson’s absurdly lenient sentence for antisemitic harassment to the Court of Appeal. Mr
A mosque leader who called for “Jihad by sword” while making a stabbing gesture and wearing a black top emblazoned with the words “Free Palestine, resistance is existence” has been jailed after being found guilty of intending
The notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz has been sentenced to jail today once again, after being found guilty of a communications offence following action by Campaign Against Antisemitism. Last week’s two-day
A neo-Nazi terrorist who encouraged acts of violence against Jews has received a two-year sentence in a young offenders institution. Thomas Leech, 19, promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories about the nefarious
A neo-Nazi activist and rapper from Austria has been handed a ten-year jail sentence by a Vienna court. The 37-year-old artist, who recorded music under the name ‘Mr Bond’, was
Nicholas Wayne Sherman, 34, was sentenced on 1st March to 180 days of incarceration in Sacramento County Jail for leaving antisemitic leaflets at a synagogue and an elementary school in
A man who sported a moustache in the style of Adolf Hitler’s and wore a Nazi armband to his trial has been sentenced to jail for more than eight years, after being found guilty of
A man who was convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment after sending Alan Sugar a series of abusive and antisemitic letters was handed a jail sentence of three years and six months at Chelmsford Crown Court yesterday. Patrick Gomes, 70, sent
Tahra Ahmed, a prominent Grenfell Tower volunteer aid worker who was reported to the police by Campaign Against Antisemitism has been sentenced to 11 months in prison after being found
A neo-Nazi student who disseminated a terrorism manual disguised as a handbook for Minecraft, an adventure game where users can build and create new environments, was jailed on Friday for
A neo-Nazi who was sentenced by a judge to read classic works of English literature has now been jailed for two years by the Court of Appeal, after his sentence was deemed “unduly lenient”.
A leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division has been handed a seven-year jail sentence in connection with a plot to target journalists and activists. Kaleb Cole, 25, was convicted by a
A convicted neo-Nazi terrorist who was spared jail and ordered instead to examine works of classic literature has today reported to a judge on his reading. Ben John, 21, was
The man who shot and killed a 60-year-old woman in a California synagogue has been given a second life sentence. This sentence is in addition to the life sentence without the possibility of parole
A man has been sentenced to sixteen weeks in prison after he pleaded guilty last month to wearing t-shirts in support of two banned antisemitic genocidal terrorist groups back in
The Hon. Piers Portman, the youngest living son of the 9th Viscount Portman and heir to 110 acres of West End real estate, has been refused leave to appeal after
A man from Birmingham has been jailed after hurling antisemitic abuse at a couple in front of two off-duty police officers. Adam Boyle, 32, was reportedly “visibly intoxicated” when he
A prominent far-right streamer who described his goal as “exposing the filthy Jews” has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred. Richard Hesketh, 36
The co-founder of the neo-Nazi National Action terrorist group has today been jailed for ten years. Ben Raymond, 32, was found guilty of membership of the proscribed group earlier this week at Bristol Crown Court, where
A man has been convicted of religiously-aggravated harassment after sending Alan Sugar a series of abusive and antisemitic letters. Lord Sugar, the former host of The Apprentice television show, was reluctant to refer
An Ohio man who spat on his Jewish neighbours and told them that Adolf Hitler should have gassed them has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The man has also
Yacine Mihoub, 32, has been convicted of stabbing 85-year-old Mireille Knoll eleven times and has been sentenced to life in prison. Ms Knoll, a Holocaust survivor, was murdered during a botched robbery in March
A man who pleaded guilty to sending a series of antisemitic, hateful and racist tweets has been sentenced to eight weeks in prison at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today. After an investigation by the Metropolitan Police, Nathan Blagg,
The Hon. Piers Portman, the youngest living son of the 9th Viscount Portman and heir to 110 acres of West End real estate, has today been sentenced to four months
A man convicted of physically assaulting a Jewish woman has today been let off with a conditional discharge. On 18th March, Keith Gowers, 59, of Tottenham, followed Beilla Reis down
A Jewish man in the State of Texas who was sentenced to death by a judge who he believes to be antisemitic has won a new trial. Randy Halprin, 44,
The man who shot and killed a 60-year-old woman in a California synagogue was sentenced to life in jail without the possibility of parole yesterday. In July, John T. Earnest,
The French courts have given eight defendants who have been convicted of antisemitic harassment a two-month suspended prison sentence. April Benayoum, who won the title of Miss Provence 2020 and
A leader of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for threatening journalists and advocates against antisemitism. Atomwaffen Division is a paramilitary neo-Nazi group that
It was reported on Thursday that a man in Wales has been jailed for nine months after daubing swastikas and racist slogans on the side of a hairdressers. David Elwyn
The notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz has today humiliatingly been sent back to prison for seven weeks after losing her own appeal last week. The appeal was against her conviction under
A Hitler-loving radio host has today been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to eight counts of inciting racial hatred after action by Campaign Against Antisemitism. Following an investigation by
The man who shot and killed a 60-year-old woman in a California synagogue is set to be jailed for life without the possibility of parole. His sentencing is scheduled for
The French comedian Dieudonné has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for producing videos of an “antisemitic nature.” Dieudonné, whose real name is Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, is a French comedian
Two Polish ultranationalists have been given prison sentences in connection to chanting about hanging Zionists at a rally in 2016. It was reported that one of the participants at the
A neo-Nazi who wrote that ethnic minorities should be “sent home” and “sterilised” has been jailed on terror offences. Michael Nugent, 38, used online chat groups to disseminate violent, neo-Nazi
An Austrian solider has been imprisoned for sharing photos of his swastika tattoo online. The man had already received a suspended sentence for previously disseminating photos of Nazi memorabilia from
A neo-Nazi, former UKIP member who advocated for the murder of Jewish people has been jailed for at least eighteen years on terror charges. Dean Morrice, 34, was found guilty
An obsessive neo-Nazi admirer of Adolf Hitler has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of posting “abhorrent” racist material online. Tobias Powell, 33, of Wythering Close
A police officer found guilty of being a member of the banned neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action has been jailed for four years and four months. Benjamin Hannam, a 22-year-old
A teenager from Cornwall who recently became the UK’s youngest terror offender has controversially been spared a custodial sentence. Now sixteen, the neo-Nazi teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two counts
A court has ruled that a neo-Nazi teenager who planned to throw homemade bombs at Durham synagogues can be named. Jack Reed, 18, can be named after his bid for anonymity
A neo-Nazi with a history of disseminating antisemitic material has been sentenced to four years and two months in prison after admitting terrorist charges. Luke Hunter of Newcastle was sentenced at Leeds
A French court on Wednesday found fourteen defendants guilty of aiding two terrorist attacks that killed seventeen people in Paris in January 2015, including four people at a kosher supermarket.
A gunman who attacked a synagogue in the German city of Halle on Yom Kippur last year has been sentenced to life in prison for what the prosecutor described as
A member of a neo-Nazi group that made terror threats against American Jewish journalists and activists was sentenced to sixteen months in federal prison in Washington state. Prosecutors said Johnny
A French court sentenced a man on 30th November to six months in prison after finding him guilty of attacking a Jewish graffiti artist in the city of Strasbourg, France.
A French court has jailed a notorious French Holocaust denier for four months following his latest conviction. Vincent Reynouard, 51, was jailed for four months on 25th November by a
Arthur Topham has been sentenced to a 30-day conditional sentence plus three years probation, following a failure to comply with the terms of his previous probation period. The recent sentencing
The Court of Appeal has halved the sentence of a convicted neo-Nazi terrorist. Connor Scothern was convicted earlier this year of membership of the proscribed National Action neo-Nazi terrorist group. Mr Scothern,
A man with a history of antisemitic harassment has been jailed over a video inciting terrorism. Shehroz Iqbal, 29, has been charged on multiple occasions over antisemitic incidents with no custodial sentence, leading to strong protest from
An A-star student said to have fallen down “the rabbit hole of the internet” to become a neo-Nazi has been sentenced after pleading guilty to fourteen terror charges and two charges of possessing indecent images