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BBC News: Stop Blaming Jews!
This Monday 13th December at 18:30, we are holding a rally outside Broadcasting House to protest the BBC’s coverage of the antisemitic incident on Oxford Street over Chanukah, and years of BBC victim-blaming Jews.
For more information and to register, please visit antisemitism.org/bbc.
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CAA to hold “BBC News: Stop Blaming Jews!” protest outside Broadcasting House on Monday 13th December following outrageous coverage of antisemitic incident on Oxford Street
Friday, 10th December, 13:29
Campaign Against Antisemitism has announced a “BBC News: Stop Blaming Jews!” protest outside the BBC’s headquarters at Broadcasting House this Monday 13th December. We are demanding explanations over the BBC’s outrageous coverage of the recent antisemitic incident on Oxford Street during the Jewish festival of Chanukah, when the BBC’s reports victim-blamed Jewish teenagers for being attacked. This incident is one of […] Continue reading
Today, as Labour Party is mandated by law to introduce semi-independent disciplinary process, CAA resubmits complaints against fifteen sitting Labour MPs including Angela Rayner
Friday, 10th December, 13:26
Today is a key monitoring date and sign-off point in the Labour Party’s Action Plan agreed with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). The Action Plan came in the wake of the EHRC’s finding that Labour had unlawfully discriminated against Jewish people following an investigation in which Campaign Against Antisemitism was the complainant. Under the Action Plan, it is […] Continue reading
Channel 4 appoints figure who defended Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism allegations to its board
Wednesday, 8th December, 13:35
Channel 4 has appointed to its board a figure who defended Jeremy Corbyn over antisemitism allegations. Tess Alps, a former chairman of the TV advertising industry body ThinkBox and member of the Labour Party, has been made a non-executive director of the channel. When the Labour Party under Mr Corbyn was accused of racism towards Jews – allegations that were confirmed by the Equality and […] Continue reading
Lib Dem candidate apologises for tweets that appeared to compare English Channel migrants to Jewish inmates at Auschwitz
Wednesday, 8th December, 13:32
The Liberal Democrat candidate in the coming North Shropshire by-election has apologised after social media posts emerged in which she appeared to compare the experience of migrants crossing the English Channel to Jewish inmates at the Auschwitz death camp. Helen Morgan, reportedly wrote on Twitter in September 2020 about her son reading The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, a book about the […] Continue reading
Police call for help identifying suspects in last week’s antisemitic incident on Oxford Street
Wednesday, 8th December, 11:11
The Metropolitan Police have issued a call for witnesses and assistance in identifying suspects in last week’s antisemitic incident on Oxford Street. The Met is investigating as a hate crime an attack on a bus that travelled down Oxford Street on 30th November carrying a group of visibly Jewish teenagers celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah. Videos taken by […] Continue reading
Chanukah display in Primrose Hill destroyed in act of vandalism
Wednesday, 8th December, 10:07
It has been reported that a Chanukah display in Primrose Hill has been destroyed. A photograph uploaded on Twitter this morning showed a Chanukiah smashed in half. Rabbi Yossi Baitz, the Chabad rabbi to Kentish-CamdenTown London, told Campaign Against Antisemitism that he placed sandbags over the base of the Chanukiah to hold it in place, which […] Continue reading
Labour councillor who chanted “From the River to the Sea” has whip removed and Jeremy Corbyn’s former legal head deselected, but elsewhere local Labour group passes motion praising Ken Loach
Wednesday, 8th December, 08:38
A Labour Party councillor who chanted “From the River to the Sea” at a rally and called a former Jewish Labour MP a “hideous traitor” has reportedly had the whip removed. Sam Gorst, a councillor in Liverpool, is reportedly no longer a member of the local Labour Group and will sit as an independent. Cllr Gorst was filmed earlier this year […] Continue reading
CAA writes to BBC demanding explanations over its outrageous coverage of Oxford Street antisemitic incident
Tuesday, 7th December, 17:47
Campaign Against Antisemitism has written to the BBC demanding explanations over its outrageous coverage of the antisemitic incident on Oxford Street last week. The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating as a hate crime an attack on a bus that travelled down Oxford Street on 30th November carrying a group of visibly Jewish teenagers celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah. Videos taken […] Continue reading
North London gang verbally and physically assault Jewish children in two separate incidents
Tuesday, 7th December, 17:20
A North London gang is reported to have verbally and physically assaulted Jewish children in two separate incidents. In both instances, the gang is believed to be associated with the nearby Webb Estate and is accused of harassing Jewish residents for years. In one incident, the gang threw stones at ten-year-old Jewish boys before being […] Continue reading
Oxford University under fire for inviting defender of David Miller and critic of International Definition of Antisemitism to deliver lecture on “equality and diversity”
Tuesday, 7th December, 11:54
The University of Oxford is under fire for inviting a defender of the disgraced academic David Miller and critic of the International Definition of Antisemitism to deliver lecture on “equality and diversity”. Tariq Modood, the founder and Director of the University of Bristol’s Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, delivered the Oxford Law Faculty’s Annual Equality and Diversity Lecture, titled “Islamophobia […] Continue reading
New poll reveals majority of Jewish Labour Party members do not find other local members friendly and welcoming
Tuesday, 7th December, 10:58
A new poll has revealed that 65% of Jewish members of the Labour Party do not find other local members friendly and welcoming. In a poll of 2,890 people carried out by the Fabian Society in August, 65% of Jewish respondents disagreed with the claim that other local members are all friendly and welcoming, a new report has […] Continue reading
Prominent far-right streamer with goal of “exposing the filthy Jews” jailed for four years
Monday, 6th December, 17:09
A prominent far-right streamer who described his goal as “exposing the filthy Jews” has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred. Richard Hesketh, 36 from Greater Manchester, posted 4,000 antisemitic videos that garnered over 5.5 million views under the name Rick Heskey on the platforms Bitchute and Goyim TV, […] Continue reading
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