This week’s updates from Campaign Against Antisemitism

This week’s updates from Campaign Against Antisemitism
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Before you read this week’s update, we would like to ask you to sign two Parliamentary petitions, and then ask ten of your friends to sign too. If we get enough signatures, the Government must respond to these petitions and Parliament may even have to debate them.

The first petition calls for regulation of social media companies, requiring them to remove hatred swiftly. A new law to do this is already planned, but as things stand, the new law will not come in for around four years. We are asking that the new law is passed by next summer. We have waited long enough for social networks to be forced to act. Sign the first petition now here ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

The second petition seeks reforms to the process by which honours (such as MBEs) are removed, and that they are automatically removed from racists such as Wiley. Sign the second petition now here ([link removed][UNIQID]) .

Please ask at least ten friends to sign too. You may wish to use this simple e-mail template
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** Cabinet Office confirms to CAA that request to withdraw Wiley’s MBE is now being reviewed, as CAA also launches Parliamentary petition for racists to be stripped of their honours automatically
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Wednesday, 5th August, 18:20

The Cabinet Office has confirmed to Campaign Against Antisemitism that it is now reviewing Wiley’s MBE, in response a letter that we wrote to the Honours Forfeiture Committee calling for the antisemitic grime rapper to be stripped of the honour. In a letter from the Cabinet Office, the Honours and Appointments Secretariat has advised that the Honours Forfeiture Committee […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Power of CPS to shut down private prosecutions must be reformed, CAA says in evidence to House of Commons Justice Committee inquiry
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Wednesday, 5th August, 18:11

Campaign Against Antisemitism has submitted evidence to the House of Commons Justice Committee in its inquiry into private prosecutions, drawing on our wealth of experience in this area. Although the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) usually undertakes prosecutions of criminal activity, individuals and civil society organisations, like Campaign Against Antisemitism, can launch private prosecutions if the CPS fails to […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** International Olympics Committee apologises for tweet that appeared to celebrate the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games in Nazi Germany
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Wednesday, 5th August, 15:48

The International Olympics Committee (IOC) has apologised for posting a tweet that appeared to celebrate the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games hosted by Nazi Germany. To mark the lighting of the Olympic cauldron a year in advance of the postponed Tokyo Games, the IOC tweeted a film about the conclusion of the first-ever Olympic torch relay, when the […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Amazon, Google and Wish remove neo-Nazi products
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Wednesday, 5th August, 15:43

Although racist products are prohibited on Amazon, Google and Wish according to their policies, not only have neo-Nazi items been available for sale, but the platforms’ algorithms have been promoting the white supremacist merchandise. Amazon was selling a flag with a Celtic Cross, a popular white supremacist symbol, while Wish was selling Ku Klux Klan-themed products and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Labour tried to have Party whistleblower prosecuted, and now Jeremy Corbyn’s Islington CLP debates rejection of International Definition of Antisemitism
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Wednesday, 5th August, 14:56

The Labour Party tried to have one of the Panorama whistleblowers prosecuted, according to The Sunday Times. Sam Matthews, a former head of governance and legal, was one of a number of former staffers turned courageous whistleblowers who featured on the BBC Panorama expose of antisemitism in the Labour Party and with whom the Party recently settled a defamation case. It has now […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Port Vale to appeal FA’s six-match ban and £3,500 fine for footballer Tom Pope over antisemitic Twitter post
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Wednesday, 5th August, 14:51

The Football Association (FA) has banned Tom Pope for six matches and fined him £3,500 over an antisemitic Twitter post. Earlier this year, the Port Vale striker responded to a request online to predict the course of a hypothetical Third World War. Mr Pope tweeted: “We invade Iran then Cuba then North Korea then the Rothchilds [sic] are crowned […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Donors to unofficial crowd-funder for Jeremy Corbyn’s legal expenses post horrendous comments denying Labour antisemitism and equating Zionism with racism
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Tuesday, 4th August, 19:02

Donors to an unofficial crowd-funder for Jeremy Corbyn’s legal expenses have posted horrendous comments in support of the beleaguered former Labour leader. The crowd-funder 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 be touched and remain on […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA launches petitions calling for racists like Wiley to be stripped of MBEs and for the Government to bring forward Online Harms Bill this year
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Tuesday, 4th August, 18:59

Campaign Against Antisemitism has launched two parliamentary petitions, one calling for racists like Wiley to be stripped of their MBEs, and the other calling for the Government to bring forward Online Harms Bill this year. Following our letter to the Cabinet Office calling for the antisemitic grime artist Wiley to be stripped of his MBE, we have […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Following Wiley’s antisemitic rampage, more than 700 musicians and members of the music industry sign letter decrying racism
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Tuesday, 4th August, 18:57

Following Wiley’s antisemitic rampage, more than 700 musicians and members of the music industry have signed a letter decrying racism. Among the signatories were Alexandra Burke, Biffy Clyro, Clean Bandit, Dougie Poynter, Labrinth, Lewis Capaldi, Little Mix, James Blunt, Jess Glynne, Naighty Boy, Nao, Niall Horan, Nile Rodgers, Olly Murs, Rita Ora, and The 1975. The letter […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Wiley finally banned from YouTube following appeal by CAA
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Tuesday, 4th August, 16:21

Campaign Against Antisemitism has been informed by Google that it has decided to ban Wiley from YouTube. He was using his channel to broadcast disturbing videos to almost 250,000 followers. It had initially refused to remove him, but Campaign Against Antisemitism has successfully appealed the decision. The performer, who was finally banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram following worldwide outrage, had […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Disgraced former MP Chris Williamson publishes unhinged conspiracy theory video claiming “Zionists” and CAA control the “racist” EHRC in service to the Conservative Party
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Tuesday, 4th August, 11:11

The disgraced former Labour MP, Chris Williamson, has published an unhinged conspiracy theory article and video claiming that “Zionists” and Campaign Against Antisemitism control the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in service to the Conservative Party. Mr Williamson, who was suspended from the Labour Party several times before running as an Independent in the 2019 General Election and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])


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