This week’s updates from Campaign Against Antisemitism

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** CAA action results in three new criminal charges against notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz
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Monday, 3rd August, 10:03

Action by Campaign Against Antisemitism has resulted in new criminal charges against the notorious antisemite Alison Chabloz. Ms Chabloz is a virulent antisemite and Holocaust denier who has an extensive record of using social media to publicise her hatred for Jews and to convert others to her views about Jewish people. Following a private prosecution […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA calls for Labour and Co-operative MP Barry Sheerman to lose the whip following doubly antisemitic “silver shekels” tweet
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Saturday, 1st August, 23:18

Campaign Against Antisemitism is calling for the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party MP Barry Sheerman to lose both parties’ whip over a tweet posted this morning. Mr Sheerman, who has been the MP for Huddersfield since 1979 tweeted: “Apparently there has been a bit of a run on silver shekels!” After Twitter users asked […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA disappointed that Independent Doctors Federation hosted Prof. John Ashton who has a long history of antisemitic comments
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Friday, 31st July, 12:57

The Independent Doctors Federation hosted Prof. John Ashton earlier this week, despite the public health expert’s long history of antisemitic comments. Prof. Ashton’s record includes comparing Israel to the Nazis and holding Jews responsible for the actions of the State of Israel, both of which are breaches of the International Definition of Antisemitism, as well as trolling Jewish women […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Two JVL members to be sued for defamation by journalist John Ware in connection with Panorama expose of Labour antisemitism
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Friday, 31st July, 12:53

John Ware, the maker of the BBC Panorama documentary “Is Labour Antisemitic”, is reportedly commencing legal proceedings against two members of the antisemitism-denial group and sham Jewish representative organisation, Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL). Naomi Wimbourne-Idrissi, one of the group’s founders, and web officer Richard Kuper, will join Jeremy Corbyn as defendants in separate libel actions by Mr Ware. It is understood that the libel […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Wiley is not an ‘inspiration’: CAA and Ivors member and past awards panellist write to Ivors Academy calling for Wiley’s Ivors Inspiration Award to be rescinded
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Friday, 31st July, 12:23

A senior volunteer at Campaign Against Antisemitism has written on our behalf to the Ivors Academy calling for it to rescind Wiley’s 2019 Ivors Inspiration Award. In his letter, Joe Glasman, an award-winning composer, Ivors member and former Ivors award panellist, noted that Wiley has “spent the last several days on an antisemitic tirade” and wrote that it […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Twitter permanently bans former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke a month after YouTube
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Friday, 31st July, 11:24

Twitter has permanently banned the former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, David Duke, from its platform. Mr Duke has a long history of vile antisemitic views and is a prominent white supremacist. Twitter’s decision comes a month after YouTube banned the far-right racist. It also comes after a global walkout from Twitter earlier this week to protest its failure to address […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA appealing Google’s decision to allow Wiley to broadcast to 250,000 YouTube subscribers, including video taunting unnamed powerful cabal to take his passport away
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Thursday, 30th July, 20:07

Campaign Against Antisemitism has been informed by Google that it has decided to remove only one video from Wiley’s YouTube channel, from which he continues to broadcast disturbing videos to almost 250,000 followers. The performer, who has was finally banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram following worldwide outrage, is now uploading further videos to a […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Reinforcing his views, Wiley opens new Instagram account and begins uploading disturbing videos to 250,000 followers on YouTube, as CAA asks Facebook and Google to take him off air
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Thursday, 30th July, 17:44

Campaign Against Antisemitism’s Online Monitoring and Investigations Unit is aware that Wiley, who has was finally banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram following worldwide outrage, is now uploading disturbing videos to a small Instagram account that appears to be new, and a YouTube channel with almost 250,000 followers. The videos continue in the same vein […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** The Voice must apologise for its disastrous interview with Wiley that failed to distinguish between reporting on antisemitism and enabling it
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Thursday, 30th July, 17:18

The Voice newspaper must apologise for its disastrous interview with Wiley that failed to distinguish between reporting on antisemitism and enabling it. In his interview, Wiley doubled down on his previous social media comments, describing Jews as rich exploiters and slavers, using classic antisemitic tropes and generalising about an entire ethnic group following an apparent dispute with […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Wiley gives incendiary interviews to Sky News and The Voice Online, which depressingly suggests that some of Wiley’s views “are the great unsaid outside of the black community”
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Thursday, 30th July, 12:03

The antisemitic grime artist Wiley has given incendiary interviews to Sky News and The Voice Online. Wiley has spent the last several days spewing antisemitic bile on social media before being locked out of Twitter, Facebook and Instagram following a global #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate campaign and mass 48-hour social media boycott, in which Campaign Against Antisemitism participated. Wiley’s comments were condemned by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary, politicians from across parties, […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Jeremy Corbyn deletes Wiley tweet without condemning antisemitism
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Wednesday, 29th July, 11:54

Jeremy Corbyn has deleted a past tweet exchange with the grime artist Wiley, who has become embroiled in controversy over an extended antisemitic rant. Wiley, whose real name is Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., appears to have shown support for the former Labour leader, who thanked him for his endorsement. However, with Wiley now at the centre of his own antisemitism […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** As Twitter finally deletes Wiley’s account following talks with CAA, we shone a light on its racism — literally
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Wednesday, 29th July, 10:06

Twitter has permanently deleted antisemitic performer Wiley’s account. They did so following discussions with Campaign Against Antisemitism under immense pressure amid a worldwide 48-hour boycott of Twitter under the hashtag #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate. Last night, Campaign Against Antisemitism went to Twitter’s London headquarters to shine a light on the company after it failed so spectacularly to address […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** All eyes on Twitter after Facebook and Instagram finally close Wiley’s accounts for good after CAA exposes panicked outreach to advertisers
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Tuesday, 28th July, 18:52

It has taken Facebook several days, but it has finally made the decision to ban Wiley from Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), soon after Campaign Against Antisemitism publicised Facebook’s private damage control outreach to advertisers. In a statement, Facebook said: “There is no place for hate speech on Facebook and Instagram. After initially placing […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Facebook contacts major advertisers in panic over Wiley antisemitism backlash while the antisemitic performer continues to post on his Facebook account
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Tuesday, 28th July, 16:06

Facebook has sent a message to advertisers, the Government and NGOs in a desperate bid to stem rising backlash over its failure to delete antisemitic performer Wiley’s Instagram messages. The e-mail from Steve Hatch, Facebook’s Vice-President for Northern Europe, which we have reproduced in full below, sought to justify the steps that Facebook has taken, but even as the e-mail […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Crowdfunder for Jeremy Corbyn’s legal defence gets donations from “Hitler” and “B*stard Son of Netanyahu and Starmer”
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Tuesday, 28th July, 13:35

A crowdfunder launched to raise money for Jeremy Corbyn’s legal defence has received money from donors calling themselves “Adolf Hitler” and “B*stard Son of Netanyahu and Starmer”. The crowdfunder was launched by a supporter of Mr Corbyn’s and does not appear to have his formal endorsement, however the supporter said: “The funds on this campaign will not […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Prime Minister Boris Johnson calls Wiley’s antisemitism “abhorrent” and Twitter’s response “not good enough”
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Tuesday, 28th July, 10:00

The Prime Minister has spoken out against Wiley’s antisemitism, calling it “abhorrent”, and declared that Twitter’s response was “not good enough”. A spokesperson for Boris Johnson said: “The Prime Minister would echo the comments of the Home Secretary yesterday that the antisemitic posts by Wiley are abhorrent. The Prime Minister would also echo the Home Secretary’s comments that this […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Leaked email from Corbyn ally shows he recognised that controversial leaked Labour report was misleading and feared the consequences
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Monday, 27th July, 14:42

A leaked email from a senior Corbyn ally in Labour Party headquarters shows that he recognised that a controversial leaked report about the Party’s handling of antisemitism was misleading and that there may be adverse consequences following its dissemination. Thomas Gardiner, who resigned a few weeks ago as Labour’s Director of Governance and Legal, is reported to have sent an email on […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Swastikas graffitied on Jewish home in Enfield leaving family and small children traumatised
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Monday, 27th July, 13:07

Swastika graffiti was reported on a Jewish home in Enfield over the weekend. The graffiti, on Lee View, left the family and small children traumatised about being targeted and fearing for what may happen next. The incident, which took place on Sunday 26th July, was reported by Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol. If you […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate campaign goes global, with Jewish communities around the world walking out of Twitter and other social media platforms, along with celebrities, to protest antisemitic hatred
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Monday, 27th July, 11:48

The #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate campaign has launched today and gone global, with Jewish communities around the world, including in Australia and the United States, joining British Jews in walking out of Twitter and other social media platforms for 48 hours to protest antisemitic hatred on the platforms. The hashtag #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate has also been trending on Twitter, while numerous politicians from across […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])


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