This week’s updates from Campaign Against Antisemitism

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** Success for CAA as Urban Dictionary removes horrendous “Holocaust n*****” entry following our campaign urging brands to pull their adverts from the controversial website
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Friday, 12th June, 19:14

Urban Dictionary has removed a page devoted to the antisemitic term “Holocaust n*****” following contact between Campaign Against Antisemitism and numerous advertisers on the controversial website, several of which have now pulled their marketing from the website altogether. After research seen by Campaign Against Antisemitism and conducted by Dr Daniel Allington, who is Senior Lecturer in […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** People’s Postcode Lottery and Canterbury Christ Church University remove their advertisements from Urban Dictionary after CAA alerts them to antisemitic material on the website
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Friday, 12th June, 18:53

People’s Postcode Lottery and Canterbury Christ Church University have both acted to remove their brands from Urban Dictionary after Campaign Against Antisemitism alerted them to their advertisements featuring alongside antisemitic and offensive entries on the controversial website. Campaign Against Antisemitism has contacted numerous household brands after they were discovered to have been advertising on the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Labour MP promotes article claiming Jeremy Corbyn was brought down by “lies”, “mob politics” and “dark forces”, but then deletes tweet and apologises
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Friday, 12th June, 17:46

A Labour MP promoted an article that claimed that Jeremy Corbyn, the former Leader of the Labour Party, was electorally unsuccessful due to “lie after lie” told about him, “mob politics” and “dark forces”, before deleting the tweet and apologising. Margaret Greenwood, who is the Shadow Minister for Schools, tweeted that the article was “important reading” […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Prominent law firm Mishcon de Reya fires antisemitic employee who referred to “f***ing” Jews and “Zionist cockroaches” and compared Israel to Nazis on social media
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Friday, 12th June, 16:46

The prominent law firm Mishcon de Reya has reportedly fired an employee who made antisemitic and incendiary comments on social media, including referring to “f***ing” Jews and “Zionist cockroaches” and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. The unnamed employee had been working at the law firm as a conflicts analyst, having previously studied law at the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** DFS CEO moves to stop brand being advertised next to racist material on Urban DIctionary after being alerted by CAA
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Friday, 12th June, 16:14

DFS, a leading British furniture retailer, has reacted immediately after learning that its brand is being advertised next to racist material on the website Urban Dictionary. Campaign Against Antisemitism has contacted numerous household brands after they were discovered to have been advertising on the controversial website by Dr Daniel Allington in peer-reviewed research published yesterday and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Protest against statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College, Oxford turned antisemitic, according to college’s Equality and Diversity Officer
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Friday, 12th June, 12:10

The Equality and Diversity Officer at Oriel College, Oxford, has claimed that a protest against the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the college turned antisemitic, according to the JC. The protest to remove the statue, held by the ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ campaign reportedly in solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, featured a speaker from the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** National Action sentences show importance of seemingly low-level warning signs like racist stickers on university campuses
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Friday, 12th June, 11:42

The sentences given to four members of the proscribed terrorist organisation National Action this week serve as a reminder of the importance of highlighting and combatting low-level warning signs such as racist stickers on university campuses. While media attention has focused on Alice ‘Miss Hitler’ Cutter, two of the other offenders were both involved in stickering operations for […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Explosive new investigation shows household brands are profiting from racist entries and offensive jokes on the website Urban Dictionary
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Thursday, 11th June, 18:22

An explosive investigation has revealed that household brands are profiting from racist entries and offensive jokes on the website Urban Dictionary. In new research seen by Campaign Against Antisemitism and conducted by Dr Daniel Allington, who is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence at King’s College London and a volunteer with Campaign Against […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Prof. John “time for Jews to reflect” Ashton claims scandal of his antisemitism is a “political” conspiracy against him, while thousands sign CAA petition to take him off BBC, ITV and Sky News
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Thursday, 11th June, 12:43

Prof. John Ashton has claimed that the scandal of his antisemitism recently unearthed is a “political” conspiracy, while the number of signatories to Campaign Against Antisemitism’s petition urging broadcasters to stop featuring the public health pundit has grown into the thousands. Prof. Ashton has a long history of antisemitic and inflammatory comments, including comparing Israel to the Nazis and holding […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** People care more about the Holocaust because Jews are white, claims former Momentum Vice Chair and expelled Labour member, Jackie Walker
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Thursday, 11th June, 12:01

The disgraced racist activist Jackie Walker has claimed that the Holocaust gets more notice than other genocides or instances of oppression because Jews are “white”. The former Momentum Vice Chair and expelled Labour member made the claim on Twitter while posting an article by another former Labour member, Tony Greenstein, who was also expelled from the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA reveals Edge Hill University SU president-elect believes his Holocaust mockery scandal was a conspiracy to damage him as hundreds sign petition calling for his ouster
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Wednesday, 10th June, 17:54

The President-Elect of Edge Hill University’s Students’ Union ‘liked’ a statement on Instagram that claimed that a scandal for which he apologised was in fact a conspiracy to damage him. Following contact from an alumnus of the university, Campaign Against Antisemitism can reveal that Sam Farrell ‘liked’ a statement saying: “there is evidence suggesting the whole […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** ‘Miss Hitler’ jailed for three years, with longer sentences for other National Action accomplices
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Tuesday, 9th June, 15:07

A woman who entered a “Miss Hitler” beauty pageant in order to attract new members to the neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action and was found guilty of membership in the proscribed organisation has now been sentenced to three years in prison. Alice Cutter, who is 23 years old, used the name “Buchenwald Princess” to enter the online ‘National Action Miss Hitler […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Argentina becomes latest country to adopt International Definition of Antisemitism
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Tuesday, 9th June, 14:35

Argentina has adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism. Campaign Against Antisemitism applauds this decision at a time of rising antisemitism. The decision was announced by Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which promised that the Definition will be used as “a tool to sanction and eliminate behaviors and attitudes based on hostility and prejudice, to reinforce […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA appalled at Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s proposal that British Jews be asked to answer questions “about the Palestinians”
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Tuesday, 9th June, 14:21

Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has greeted the news that a Jewish charity is launching a review of racial inequality in the Jewish community in the UK by proposing that the person leading it ask British Jews “about the Palestinians”. Stephen Bush, a journalist with the New Statesman who has been asked to lead the review, revealed that […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Veteran activist links Israel to racist killing of George Floyd and says “Israeli embassies” were behind campaign against Jeremy Corbyn, who listens without objecting
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Monday, 8th June, 19:43

A veteran left-wing activist has linked Israel to the racist murder of George Floyd by claiming that American police forces are trained in Israel and have learned dubious techniques of restraint from their Israeli counterparts. He went on to accuse “Israeli embassies” of claiming that any criticism of Israel is antisemitic and that one of […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** LBC caller rips Sir Keir Starmer for standing by Corbyn while Jewish community was crying out, as listeners on Youtube post antisemitic comments
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Monday, 8th June, 17:25

A Jewish caller to the radio channel LBC accused Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer of spending five years standing by Jeremy Corbyn and campaigning to make him Prime Minister, noting that it is “convenient” for Sir Keir to be “saying the right things now, that’s not principled…that’s empty words.” Sir Keir did not try to […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Conservatives re-admit councillor who minimised the Holocaust following an apology but apparently without further sanction or expectation of antisemitism training
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Monday, 8th June, 16:39

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 no further sanction or expectation for him to undertake antisemitism training. Ryan Houghton, had been the Conservatives’ candidate for Aberdeen North until it was discovered […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Controversial filmmaker and and Corbyn enthusiast Ken Loach describes BAFTA nomination for Panorama’s expose of Labour antisemitism a “disgrace”
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Monday, 8th June, 15:44

Ken Loach, the controversial filmmaker and and Jeremy Corbyn enthusiast, has described the BAFTA Television Award nomination for Panorama’s programme titled “Is Labour Antisemitic?” as a “disgrace”. Mr Loach called the programme a “crude polemic, without balance or objectivity, intended to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership,” and claimed that “BAFTA’s choice is a blatant attempt to […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Rapper Ice Cube approvingly tweets antisemitic image from mural that Jeremy Corbyn defended
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Monday, 8th June, 15:14

The rapper Ice Cube has been condemned for posting – and subsequently refusing to remove – a tweet of the image known to British Jews from the mural that former Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn defended, before backtracking. Ice Cube, a musician whose real name is O’Shea Jackson, tweeted the picture that originated on a wall in […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Former CLP chair Rebecca Massey finally expelled from Labour but apparently not for antisemitism, as another CLP chair also reportedly suspended
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Friday, 5th June, 16:04

A former chair of a Constituency Labour Party (CLP) who has been posting antisemitic tweets for years has finally been expelled from the Labour Party, but not, it appears, for antisemitism. Rebecca Massey, a former chair of Central Hove, Brunswick and Adelaide CLP, was apparently suspended on 18th May and expelled on 2nd June, a […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Conspiracy theorists online are transforming Holocaust denial and antisemitic tropes about COVID-19 into a video game
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Friday, 5th June, 11:47

Conspiracy theorists are reportedly transforming Holocaust denial, far-right racist tropes and misinformation about COVID-19 into a video game. It is understood that thousands of users of Discord, a voice and text communication platform intended for gamers, are posting conspiracy theories in order to accumulate ‘points’ that can then be cashed for rewards. The game is […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** BBC Panorama investigation into Labour antisemitism nominated for BAFTA TV award
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Thursday, 4th June, 16:03

BBC Panorama has been nominated for a BAFTA Television Award in the category of ‘current affairs’ for its programme titled “Is Labour Antisemitic?”, which explored antisemitism in the Labour Party. The programme, which was televised in July 2019, showed former Labour Party employees speaking out publicly to reveal Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s personal meddling in […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA applauds Labour suspensions in Wavertree and elsewhere under new General Secretary, but Party needs to implement independent disciplinary process immediately
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Thursday, 4th June, 15:43

The Labour Party has reportedly suspended the four members of the executive of the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) in Wavertree who criticised their local MP for expressing regret that her predecessor, Luciana Berger, felt she had to leave the Party. The CLP chair, Nina Houghton, CLP secretary, Kevin Bean, CLP women’s officer Helen Dickson, and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Tom Watson says “vicious” antisemitism was one of the reasons he left politics, but at the time he said his move was “personal, not political”
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Wednesday, 3rd June, 15:41

Tom Watson has revealed that antisemitism was one of the reasons he did not seek re-election to Parliament last year, but he did not mention it at the time he stood down, instead saying his move was “personal, not political”. Labour’s former deputy leader, whose differences with Jeremy Corbyn, who was then the Leader of […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Serbia announces adoption of International Definition of Antisemitism
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Wednesday, 3rd June, 14:58

Serbia has adopted the International Definition of Antisemitism. The decision was made by the nation’s government several months ago but the announcement was reportedly postponed until this week so as not to be lost in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Campaign Against Antisemitism applauds the decision, which demonstrates the Serbian Government’s solidarity with the Jewish […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Youths attack Jewish boy, remove his skullcap, chase him and throw stone at him in Stamford Hill
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Wednesday, 3rd June, 14:56

A female witness was shocked to see three youths attack an observant Jewish boy by removing his kippah (skullcap), chasing him and throwing a stone at him. The incident occurred on 31st May on Lynmouth Road in Stamford Hill and was reported by Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol. If you have […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Celebrity singer Dua Lipa shares then removes social media post claiming Israelis are “fake” Jews
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Wednesday, 3rd June, 14:52

The singer, Dua Lipa, has shared a social media post claiming that Israelis are “fake” Jews, but she then removed it after criticism. The British celebrity shared the post, originally authored by a user called “Vinarfuso”, to her tens of millions of Instagram followers. The post claimed in respect of the residents of Gaza that […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Man who allegedly berated Jewish family on Tube for twenty minutes identified and charged with multiple racially aggravated public order offences
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Tuesday, 2nd June, 15:43

A man who allegedly berated a Jewish family on the London Underground for twenty minutes has been identified and charged with multiple racially aggravated public order offences. Isher Campbell, 35, of Dudley is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 5th August in connection with the incident last November, which was filmed by another passenger. […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Jeremy Corbyn says EHRC is just “part of the Government machine” in first interview since stepping down as Labour leader in latest attempt to undermine investigation into Party’s antisemitism
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Monday, 1st June, 21:29

Jeremy Corbyn has rubbished the independence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), saying that it is “part of the Government machine” and that its independence as been “taken away” by the Conservatives. Mr Corbyn made the remarks in his first interview since stepping down as Labour leader, which he gave to the fringe […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])


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