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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** Kerry-Anne Mendoza, disgraced editor of The Canary blog, appears to double down yet again on comparison of Israel to Nazis
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Friday, 21st August, 11:50

Kerry-Anne Mendoza, the editor of The Canary, a controversial hard-left blog, has appeared to double down on her antisemitic comparison of Israel to Germany during Nazi rule. Ms Mendoza’s latest incident began when she equated Brexit with Nazism, referencing the infamous slogan astride the gates to the Auschwitz death camp in a tweet: “Get Brexit done; Build, build, build; […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Leader of neo-Nazi Hundred Handers group unmasked in new report that also warns against far-right Patriotic Alternative
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Thursday, 20th August, 16:02

The leader of a neo-Nazi group behind numerous stickering campaigns has been unmasked. The anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate has identified Sam Melia as the leader of Hundred Handers, an anonymous network of activists who have carried out far-right stickering campaigns across the country and worldwide over the last two years. The stickers, which feature far-right slogans and […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Hacktivist group Anonymous posts antisemitic mural defended by Jeremy Corbyn on social media and Facebook declines to act
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Thursday, 20th August, 15:10

Earlier this week, the hacktivist group known as Anonymous posted a picture of an antisemitic mural on Facebook, but when a member of the public brought it to the attention of the social media company, it declined to take any action. The mural originated on a wall in London’s East End in October 2012 after the Los […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Conservatives take a staggering eight months to investigate allegations of antisemitism with still no end in sight
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Thursday, 20th August, 09:53

Back during the closing days of the General Election in December 2019, the Conservative Party announced that it was commencing investigations into alleged antisemitism on the part of three parliamentary candidates – Sally-Ann Hart, Lee Anderson and Richard Short – two of whom won their seats. Only some of the allegations were reported at the time; […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Jewish Wimbledon champion and campaigner against antisemitism Angela Buxton has died
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Wednesday, 19th August, 16:39

The former Wimbledon champion and campaigner against antisemitism, Angela Buxton, has died, just shy of her 86th birthday. Ms Buxton, whose grandparents had immigrated to the UK from Russia, was born to a Jewish family in Liverpool and began playing tennis early, eventually winning the women’s singles title at the 1953 Maccabiah Games and placing runner-up in […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Pushback after Labour Party’s General Secretary warns local CLPs not to discuss EHRC investigation, settlement with Panorama whistleblowers or International Definition of Antisemitism
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Wednesday, 19th August, 16:05

Several officeholders in Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) around the country have expressed their opposition to a call by the Party’s General-Secretary to local branches not to discuss sensitive issues, including several related to antisemitism. David Evans sent an email to the chairs and secretaries of CLPs with guidelines for how their online meetings should be conducted in […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** Police officer appears in court charged with membership of proscribed neo-Nazi National Action terrorist group
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Wednesday, 19th August, 15:25

A police officer has appeared in court after being charged last month with being a member of the banned neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action following his arrest in March. Benjamin Hannam, 21, appeared in the Old Bailey and did not enter any pleas for the five charges, which cover other allegations, including possession of indecent images and fraud. He has been […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** New analysis suggests Facebook’s algorithm “actively promotes” Holocaust denial content
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Wednesday, 19th August, 15:21

A new analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has concluded that Facebook’s algorithm “actively promoted” Holocaust denial content. The UK-based ISD, a counter-extremism organisation, reportedly found that if one searches for “Holocaust” on Facebook, one receives suggestions for Holocaust denial pages which themselves link to publishing websites offering Holocaust revisionist and denial literature, such as […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA to complain to The Guardian over characterisation of antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel was to blame for racist killing of George Floyd as merely “anti-Israel”
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Wednesday, 19th August, 13:18

Campaign Against Antisemitism is to issue a complaint to The Guardian newspaper over the characterisation of an antisemitic conspiracy theory as merely “anti-Israel”. In an interview with the esteemed Jewish actress and writer, Maureen Lipman, the interviewer, Zoe Williams, referenced recent comments by activist actress Maxine Peake that Israel may have been to blame for the racist killing of George Floyd, […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])




** CAA applauds Architects Registration Board for removing architect from register who claimed Judaism is a “cult” and Jews should be banned from “important public office”
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Tuesday, 18th August, 11:21

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has removed an architect from its professional register following an investigation into his claims that Judaism is a “cult” and Jews should be banned from “important public office”. On 13 April 2019, Peter Kellow, an award-winning architect, published a long post on Facebook, which read, in part: “This business of ‘anti-semiticism’ [sic] in the Labour […] Continue reading ([link removed][UNIQID])


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