This week’s updates from Campaign Against Antisemitism
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** Police investigating calls for CAA personnel to be shot and beheaded after Canary editor says Jews like CAA “gonna get their asses dragged all over town” by BLM as far-left phalanx launches attack over our letter to Sir Keir Starmer
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Saturday, 20th June, 23:58
A far-left phalanx comprising Chris Williamson, Salma Yaqoob and Kerry-Ann Mendoza has attacked Campaign Against Antisemitism for sending a letter calling on Sir Keir Starmer to reveal a timetable for the introduction of a reformed disciplinary process in the Labour Party, and for seeking action against Labour figures including Jeremy Corbyn, Dianne Abbott and Salma Yaqoob […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** CAA reveals that Katie Hopkins, who has now been banned from Twitter permanently, tweeted about “tight” Jews and lied about it
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Saturday, 20th June, 23:28
Campaign Against Antisemitism can reveal that Katie Hopkins, who has now been banned from Twitter permanently, tweeted about “tight” Jews and then tried to lie about it to us. Ms Hopkins, who built and then destroyed her career as a publicity-craving ‘provocateur’, losing a show on LBC and a column in the Daily Mail, has now […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** CAA marks World Refugee Day with short video about “the forgotten refugees”: the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab and Muslim lands from the 1940s
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Saturday, 20th June, 23:27
Campaign Against Antisemitism has marked World Refugee Day by releasing a short video about “the forgotten refugees”: the hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled Arab and Muslim lands in the Middle East from the 1940s, leaving behind a civilisation built over millennia. The video is available to watch and share on our Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Brighton and Hove PSC says “Solidarity with Black Lives Matter” requires opposition to the International Definition of Antisemitism
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Saturday, 20th June, 23:05
Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign (BHPSC), has claimed that “solidarity with Black Lives Matter” requires opposition to the International Definition of Antisemitism. BHPSC released a statement trying to connect the racist killing of George Floyd to Israel and criticising its local authority’s adoption of the Definition back in 2018. The statement said (extracted): “When the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Best for Britain apologises for tweeting viral picture of man with antisemitism links in anti-racism rally and then issuing offensive response to criticism
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Friday, 19th June, 17:50
Best for Britain, an influential activist group, has apologised for tweeting a viral picture of a man with links to an antisemitic group attending an anti-racism rally and speaking to a young black woman. Best for Britain initially issued an offensive response to the criticism before reversing itself and apologising. The picture featured Jim Curran […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Three Jewish peers who quit Corbyn’s Labour re-join the Party despite lack of timetable for reforms to address antisemitism
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Friday, 19th June, 16:42
Three Jewish members of the House of Lords have announced that they have re-joined the Labour Party after having resigned over antisemitism under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. However, much of the damage caused during Mr Corbyn’s tenure has yet to be undone. Yesterday, Campaign Against Antisemitism wrote to Sir Keir Starmer, Mr Corbyn’s successor, seeking at the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** “Happy Birthday Fuhrer” stickers appear in Thanet just days after National Action members involved in far-right stickering campaigns are jailed
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Friday, 19th June, 14:55
Neo-Nazi stickers have appeared in a neighbourhood in Thanet, including ones reading “Happy Birthday Fuhrer”, just days after National Action members involved in far-right stickering campaigns were sentenced to prison. The stickers in Thanet, which were brought to the attention of Campaign Against Antisemitism by a concerned member of the public who noticed them on her […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Ken Loach joined by Mike Leigh and other usual suspects in criticism of BAFTA nomination of Panorama programme that helped expose Labour antisemitism
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Friday, 19th June, 14:40
The controversial filmmaker and Jeremy Corbyn enthusiast has been joined in his criticism of the BAFTA Television Award nomination for Panorama’s programme titled “Is Labour Antisemitic?” by a cast of usual suspects. Ken Loach, a BAFTA Fellow, 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 […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** PwC Global Network to be investigated over services reportedly rendered to organisations with possible ties to antisemitic terrorist groups
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Friday, 19th June, 13:24
PwC Global Network to be investigated over services reportedly rendered to organisations with possible ties to antisemitic terrorist groups. It is alleged that audits in 2014-2018 by the global accounting firm of two entities with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a group with a long history of terrorist activity against […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Dog faeces and eggs thrown at Jewish family’s home in Stamford Hill
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Friday, 19th June, 13:18
Dog faeces and eggs were thrown at a Jewish family’s home in Stamford Hill in what the victims believed was a racially motivated attack. The incident took place on Lordship Road on 17th June and left the family shaken and scared. It was reported by Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol. If you […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Man shouts “shame Nazis didn’t put the gas higher” and “The Germans should have killed all of them” at Jewish mother and baby on the bus
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Friday, 19th June, 13:16
A man shouted “shame Nazis didn’t put the gas higher” and “The Germans should have killed all of them” at a Jewish mother and her baby travelling on the bus. The assailant was a 60-year-old man, and the incident left the victim feeling traumatised. The attack took place on a number 67 bus at 18:50 on […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Writer at online magazine for teenagers has social media history replete with racist comments, including against Jews
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Friday, 19th June, 12:57
A writer at an online magazine for teenagers is revealed by Campaign Against Antisemitism to have a social media history replete with racist comments, including against Jews. Toby Maxtone-Smith, who works at The Day, responded to a report about antisemitic Chelsea fans performing Nazi salutes, singing about ‘Yids’ and imitating a gas chamber by complaining […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** CAA writes to Sir Keir Starmer seeking a timetable for overhauling Labour’s corrupted disciplinary process and action against senior figures including Jeremy Corbyn
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Thursday, 18th June, 18:45
Today, Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to Sir Keir Starmer welcoming a report that he intends to treat the report of the statutory investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into antisemitism in the Labour Party as “a help rather than a distraction”. On 28th May 2019, the Equality and Human Rights Commission launched […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** CAA seeks apology from The Guardian over its birthday wishes for antisemite Gilad Atzmon who now demands that “The Left should decide whether it is ‘pro-Jewish’ or ‘pro-Black’”
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Wednesday, 17th June, 11:37
The Guardian newspaper wished the antisemitic saxophonist Gilad Atzmon a ‘happy birthday’ in its daily birthday wishes to prominent personalities, despite Mr Atzmon’s record of anti-Jewish comments. Mr Atzmon is an antisemite who has reportedly blamed the Grenfell Tower tragedy on “Jerusalemites” as well as reportedly telling university students that “the Jews were expelled from Germany for misbehaving.” […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** If Piers Morgan really did dress up as a Nazi and yell “Heil Hitler” while goose-stepping, he must take responsibility and make amends
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Wednesday, 17th June, 11:36
According to Guido Fawkes, the outspoken television presenter Piers Morgan dressed up as a Nazi for a party in East Sussex, likely some years ago, and yelled “Heil Hitler” while goose-stepping. Guido Fawkes issued a photograph purporting to be of Mr Morgan in Waffen-SS uniform to substantiate its claim. The Waffen-SS ran concentration camps and was responsible […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** “Jews are all spies! I will beat you up!” shouts male at a visibly Jewish passenger on the 254 bus
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Tuesday, 16th June, 18:41
A man shouted “Jews are all spies! Next time you spy again I will beat you up!” at a Jewish passenger. When the male Jewish passenger moved to disembark, the man shouted “What’s wrong with all you lot!” before showing him the middle finger. The incident took place at 1:30pm on 14th June on the upper […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Two men and one woman perform Nazi salutes in Hendon
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Tuesday, 16th June, 18:38
Two men and one woman have been seen performing Nazi salutes in Hendon. The incident took place on 14th June on Brent Street, after the three individuals, who were all white, crossed from Golders Green into Hendon, both heavily Jewish neighbourhoods in North London. One of the men had a ponytail and was wearing a […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
** Police considering hate crime motive as man charged with attempted murder over stabbing of rabbi in Stoke Newington
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Monday, 15th June, 17:25
The Metropolitan Police Service has confirmed that it is considering a hate crime motive after charging a man with attempted murder following the stabbing of a Hasidic rabbi, who is a father of six, in Stoke Newington last Friday. Stanley Francis, 44, who is local to the North London neighbourhood where the incident took place, […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])
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