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April 26, 2024, 11:07 am

VOICE OF THE JEWISH NEWS: Divisive distraction amid a crisis

The idea that the Met commissioner should resign or be removed may grab headlines but in no way reflects reality and does not help our community in the long run.

By Voice of the Jewish News

File photo dated 11/09/23 of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in conversation with Sir Trevor Phillips at the Policy Exchange in London. PA

April 25, 2024, 11:07 am

Cleverly backs Met chief after antisemitism campaigner protest row

Home secretary says there’s still work to do after Mark Rowley refuses to sanction officer for using ‘clumsy and offensive’ language

By JN Reporter

April 19, 2024, 1:33 pm

Police threaten to arrest man for being ‘openly Jewish’ near pro-Palestine demo

Gideon Falter of the Campaign Against Antisemitism was wearing a kippah when he was stopped from crossing the road near a demonstration in Aldwych

By Jewish News Reporter

Left to right: Harlow MP Robert Halfon, Gideon Falter, CEO CAA, Mark Gardner, CEO CST. Pic: I-GNITE

March 6, 2024, 12:43 pm

Education minister addresses sixth formers at campus anti-Semitism forum

I-gnite organises inaugural pre-university preparation day with Robert Halfon, CST and Campaign Against Anti-Semitism advising students what to expect, and how to prepare, for life on campus this September

By Michelle Rosenberg

Rita - legendary Israeli singer and actress . Pic: Yoav Pichersky

November 28, 2023, 4:25 pm

Israeli superstar Rita performs at art trauma charity evening

St. John's Wood synagogue hosts 200 guests in support of The British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel

By Michelle Rosenberg

L-R — Gideon Falter, Rhodri Talfan Davies, David Jordan. Pic: CAAS

November 9, 2023, 4:53 pm

BBC faces hard questions over Israel-Hamas coverage from London synagogue audience

Tough crowd at South Hampstead shul for BBC’s director of editorial policy and standards David Jordan and director of nations Rhodri Talfan Davies

By Jenni Frazer

New billboard campaign to highlight the extent of antisemitism in the UK

January 17, 2023, 12:57 pm

Antisemitism charity launches billboard campaign to highlight Jew hatred

Activists say action needed after recent government figures show five-fold increase in anti-Jewish racism

By Jenni Frazer

Businessman Samuel Hayek at a ceremony in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, marking the dedication of a city square in honor of late Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, on November 26, 2019. Photo by Flash90

January 13, 2022, 3:27 pm

Charity Commission investigating JNF UK after chair’s comments to Jewish News

Watchdog is 'requesting information' from the Israel charity and will consider if 'regulatory action is required', after its head Samuel Hayek made remarks about Muslim immigration

By Lee Harpin

December 23, 2021, 10:23 am

Jewish Labour MP calls for ‘immediate resignation or removal’ of JNF UK chair

Alex Sobel responded to Jewish News' report on Samuel Hayek's comments about Muslims, saying the charity's board should take action or else 'the Charity Commission must investigate'

By Lee Harpin

Piers Portman, right, leaves court with conspiracy theorist Matthew Delooze, left. (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

October 22, 2021, 3:20 pm

Aristocrat who called CAA chief ‘Jewish scum’ jailed

Piers Portman made the inflammatory remarks in row after Campaign Against Antisemitism helped to prosecute a Holocaust denier.

By Josh Salisbury

September 9, 2021, 11:57 am

Aristocrat found guilty of calling CAA chief ‘Jewish scum’

Piers Portman confronted Gideon Falter after a hearing for notorious antisemite and Holocaust denier Alison Chabloz

By Jewish News Reporter

May 28, 2020, 10:02 am

Drum roll… Forty Under 40: The countdown continues – 20 to 11!

From anti-racism campaigners and leading rabbis, to community organisers and young Jewish leaders, we focus the spotlight on those set to shape Anglo-Jewry for years to come

By Jewish News

Dame Cressida Dick, the Met's chief commissioner, speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC, in January about the antisemitism investigation

February 26, 2020, 4:18 pm

Labour activist charged as part of police probe into alleged antisemitism

Mohson Rasool, 60, is accused of sending a grossly offensive message last year, amid investigation prompted by an internal Labour dossier obtained by LBC

By Jewish News Reporter

December 8, 2019, 4:35 pm

Thousands attend Westminster antisemitism protest

Actress Tracy Ann Oberman told the crowd: 'The Jewish community are caught between the pincer grip of the far right and the hard left.'

By Mathilde Frot

May 29, 2019, 12:09 pm

OPINION: An unprecedented intervention to defend British Jews

Campaign Against Antisemitism's Gideon Falter reflects on the once anti-racist Labour Party's fall to being investigated over claims of institutional antisemitism

By Gideon Falter

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