Where the money is going

Support for Palestine Action and Hamas. Waving the flag of the Taliban. Rants about Zionist control.

The Metropolitan Police Service was out in force on Saturday, having been given notice by us and others that activists were planning to try to overwhelm the justice system with support for proscribed terrorist organisation Palestine Action.

Further officers from police forces across the country were brought in, and at least 532 arrests were made. It will now be up to Attorney General Lord Hermer to decide whether to bring prosecutions.

Volunteers from our Demonstration and Events Monitoring Unit captured images and footage from the scene.

This was Saturday in London.

Our Online Monitoring and Investigations Unit has also obtained an audio recording in which nurse Leigh Evans from Wales, who was arrested on suspicion of supporting Palestine Action on Saturday, claims that an officer from Counter Terrorism Policing thanked him for his activism and expressed solidarity with his support for the proscribed terrorist organisation.

The police must immediately and transparently examine whether an officer expressed solidarity with someone arrested for allegedly showing support for a proscribed terrorist organisation.

If so, this would represent gross misconduct on the part of the relevant officer, who must obviously be dismissed from their position and criminally investigated.

We have contacted the Metropolitan Police Service, which says that it is investigating.

The Metropolitan Police Service is losing 1,700 police officers due to lack of money and closing eighteen police station front counters across London.

Why doesn’t it have the money?

Could it be because it’s regularly having to pay for hundreds of extra police officers, bussed in from all over the country, to arrest entitled terrorist supporters in sunny London? Could it be because these protests have cost upwards of £60 million so far?

How have we got here?

There are a number of reasons, but among them is the fact that two successive governments have allowed Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley to make a mockery of public order legislation, appeasing the mob and emboldening extremists who are now ready to shout their support for proscribed terror groups in the faces of frontline officers.

If the police had used their existing powers from the start, the Government wouldn’t have had to rely on terrorism legislation as the last resort to get police chiefs to do their jobs.

Ordinary citizens are paying the price for this monumental failure of leadership with fewer bobbies on the beat, to say nothing of the unprecedented levels of antisemitism and extremism that have severely impacted the Jewish community and transformed our country into something almost unrecognisable.

If you agree with us that this is intolerable, make your voice heard. March with us on Sunday 7th September.

How appeasement always plays out

Writing in The Telegraph, our Chief Executive, Gideon Falter, explains that it should be no surprise that the Palestine fanatics responded ungratefully to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s threat to Israel to recognise a Palestinian state because this is “how appeasement always plays out; it is a bottomless pit. Give an inch and they’ll take the country.

“It is no good proscribing Palestine Action unless the Government is willing to tackle the rest too, from the bloodcurdling Islamist sermons, to the terrorist-supporting marchers, to the radicalisation of our young people. And they cannot hope to succeed at any of that whilst playing to extremists at home with inflammatory foreign policy gestures relating to a conflict thousands of miles away in which Britain is totally irrelevant.”

You can read the full opinion editorial here.

The impact of Bob Vylan on antisemitic incidents

More than a month has passed since Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury performance, where one of its members incited the crowd with the chilling chant, “Death, death to the IDF”.

British Jews are still feeling the consequences.

CST has said that the highest number of antisemitic incidents reported so far this year occurred the day after that performance, with many directly linked to that chant — and it’s still going on.

There can be no justification for directing this call for death and destruction at a Jew trying to get around London on the Tube.

Our Chief Executive Gideon Falter spoke to TalkTV about the radicalisation of British youth.

Do you love your Jewish friends?

Elie gave out free ‘I ❤️ My Jewish Friends’ t-shirts in London, but there was one simple rule: you only get one if you oppose antisemitism.

Straightforward, right? Not for everyone.

Watch what unfolded here.

If you love the ‘I Love My Jewish Friends’ t-shirts in Elie’s latest video, you can get yours at antisemitism.org/shop.

Get them in time for the March on Sunday 7th September!

Men arrested for driving through Jewish neighbourhood firing water guns at Jews

Two men who published footage appearing to show themselves driving around and targeting Jews with a water gun, with Hava Nagila playing in the background, have been arrested by Greater Manchester Police.

The force has arrested two men, aged 26 and 36, on suspicion of racially aggravated common assault relating to this incident.

Harassing Jewish people is not a prank but antisemitic abuse. Allegedly doing so from the comfort of your car is particularly cowardly.

We are also aware that this is not the first time that one of these men has allegedly targeted Jews for videos on social media.

We would like to thank Greater Manchester Police for taking swift action. This is how it is done.

High Court judge on inflammatory activist Mohammed Hijab: “His evidence, overall, is worthless”

“I am satisfied that he lied on significant issues, with the consequence that his evidence, overall, is worthless.” So says Mr Justice Johnson at the High Court in respect of the inflammatory activist Mohammed Hegab (known as Mohammed Hijab).

Mr Hijab humiliatingly lost a libel case that he himself brought against The Spectator and author Douglas Murray.

The judge listed a number of issues on which Mr Hegab apparently lied to the court. Our lawyers are examining the implications of this finding.

Here is just one example that the judge raised:

“On 22 May 2021, the claimant went to Golders Green with Ali Dawah and two camera operators. Mr Dawah subsequently uploaded a video to his YouTube channel, entitled ‘Muslims confront radical Israelis.’ The video shows the claimant and Mr Dawah standing on a pavement. There are Jewish children a short distance away. The claimant and Mr Dawah are standing next to a van. On the side of the van is a large video screen which displays a series of images (approximately six) in a loop. Some of the pictures appear to show dead children in Gaza. One apparently shows Jewish prisoners in a second world war German concentration camp with the words ‘Did we not learn from the Holocaust?’ The claimant and Mr Dawah seek to engage passersby in conversation about Israel. Within a short period of time, police officers arrive. A passerby, walking with children, says ‘you can’t ask me any questions.’ Mr Dawah follows the group, asking them questions about whether they support Israel. Other passersby cross the road, apparently to avoid the claimant and Mr Dawah. The claimant and Mr Dawah say they only wish to engage in discussion and criticise their disinclination to engage. The claimant asks, ‘Do you condemn the killing of children’ and then, when there is no response, says ‘The silence is deafening.’”

You can watch the incident here.

After hearing Mr Hijab’s evidence, the judge later concludes: “I am satisfied that he lied in respect of the event at Golders Green.”

The judge explained: “The video shows that the claimant was using the van as a prop. When this was put to him, he denied it: ‘How could I use it? It’s not mine… it’s not my van; it’s nothing to do with me… I didn’t even know where that van came from.’ Later he said (in respect of the images displayed on the van): ‘I don’t know anything about what is going on the van.’ The denial that he was using the van as a prop, and his assertion that the van had nothing to do with him, was untrue. The claimant was indeed using the van as a prop to provoke passersby and to elicit a reaction. That is all demonstrated beyond argument from the video evidence.

“The claimant also said that he was not, at the time, aware of the Holocaust image. Again, that is not credible. He was standing in front of the van for a substantial period of time both at Golders Green and at the BBC, and this was one of a relatively small number of images that were shown in a loop. Although, for most of the time, he was not looking directly at the van, he was clearly aware of it, and he was referring to the imagery that was displayed on it…

“A video of a subsequent interview in December 2021 shows that by that point the claimant was certainly aware of the Holocaust image and the fact that it had been displayed on the van at the Golders Green event. The claimant accepts as much. However, in his Reply, served in May 2024, the claimant pleaded: ‘[T]he Claimant is unaware of whether there was at any time a display of “images of the Holocaust” on the van.’ This is untrue…

“The claimant’s evidence that he attended in good faith to engage in a debate with ‘Zionists’ is not credible. His conduct was grossly offensive and disingenuous. It was designed to cause an adverse reaction and to elicit material for his social media channels…”

Untrue, lies, not credible, worthless.

This is the High Court’s assessment of Mohammed Hijab’s evidence.

The court saw through his cowardly attempts to downplay his involvement in an incident (among others) in which he went to a heavily-Jewish neighbourhood on the Sabbath and tried to provoke Jews with images that compared Israel to Nazis, in breach of the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism.

Mohammed Hijab: the man whose testimony is “worthless”.

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We were proud to partner with groups from across and beyond the Jewish community to march in London yesterday for the release of innocent hostages being held captive by antisemitic, genocidal Hamas terrorists.

We were united in calling for the UK to focus all of its diplomatic pressure on securing the return of the hostages, of whom 50 still remain in captivity.

The situation for the hostages is absolutely desperate. The war would end tomorrow if Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad would release the hostages, and if the British Government is going to get involved at all, it must be to apply pressure to Hamas and its allies to release those being held, not reward them by recognising a Palestinian state.

Let them go.