Unidentified perpetrators have scrawled graffiti over posters with photographic portraits of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, according to police. A police spokesperson said on Thursday that a charge of damage to property had been filed. The police assume that the act was politically motivated. The graffiti on the two portraits would be […]
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A man has been found guilty of carrying out antisemitic attacks on three Jews after travelling to north London from West Yorkshire. Abdullah Qureshi’s targets included a 14-year-old boy on his way to school and a 64-year-old man, who was knocked out as he made his way to the synagogue. The 30-year-old also hit a […]
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Media watchdog Ofcom has concluded the BBC committed “significant editorial failings” in its reporting of an antisemitic attack on Jewish students travelling on a bus in London. The body said its investigation found the broadcaster failed to observe its editorial guidelines to report news with “due accuracy and due impartiality”. The incident on November 29 […]
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Ridley Road starts on BBC One on Sunday, October 3. It’s the Swinging Sixties in London’s East End, and far-right fascism is on the rise. Enter Vivien Epstein, a young Jewish hairdresser from Manchester who finds herself embroiled in an undercover movement against racism, after following her lover, Jack Morris, to the capital. This sets […]
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Extreme views like racism, homophobia and conspiracy theories are widespread in classrooms across England, a study suggests. Schools lack the resources and training to teach pupils how to discuss or reject dangerous views, according to academics from the University College London (UCL) Institute of Education. Their report, published days before the 20th anniversary of the […]
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The Prince of Wales has paid tribute to former chief rabbi Lord Sacks, describing him as a leader whose “wisdom, scholarship and humanity were without equal”. Lord Sacks died on Saturday aged 72. He served as the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the figurehead of British Jews, for 22 years, […]
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“I’m going to kill you, I’m going to kill all of you Jews — you killed my brothers” shouted Shazad at a Jewish motorist in Stamford Hill, until he was subsequently arrested and cautioned by the Police. Over the next two years after his arrest Shaz, as he was known in East London, had earned […]
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We received correspondence from the Middle East Eye (MEE) web-site which was not only bizarre, it promoted a conspiratorial line of questioning where the journalist explicitly made a link between Government support to counter extremism and promote shared values through the Building Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) programme and how “the government is using public funds […]
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A speaker at a far-right “freedom picnic” in the Bury area of Greater Manchester on September 15 had previously said that Poles were “being outmanoeuvred by Judeans who are trying to force our government to pay extortion money disguised as compensation”. Stanisław Michalkiewicz, hosts a radio show on the Polish-Catholic owned Radio Maryja, which, according […]
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A far-right extremist has admitted carrying out an arson attack on an historic synagogue. Tristan Morgan, 52, set the fire at the synagogue in Exeter on July 21 last year. He broke a window at the rear of the building, accelerant was poured in, then a match was used to ignite it. Built in the […]
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