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Dec 4, 2020, 2:22 PM

One academic’s bid to undermine the fight against antisemitism

Campaign Against Antisemitism rally against antisemitism (Jewish News)

Prof. David Feldman’s recent article in The Guardian opposing the adoption of the International (IHRA) Definition of Antisemitism by universities is par for the course for an academic who has been on the wrong side of the fight against antisemitism throughout the past several years....

May 29, 2019, 2:06 PM

An unprecedented intervention to defend British Jews

Jeremy Corbyn with Shami Chakrabarti at the inquiry into Labour anti-Semitism

(Jewish News)

Every reader of the Jewish News will be sadly familiar with the torrent of antisemitic incidents flowing from the once anti-racist Labour Party. Campaign Against Antisemitism has been at the forefront of calling out the Labour Party in the media, but for all of the...

May 30, 2018, 5:12 PM

Setting legal principle to tackle Holocaust deniers

The conviction of Alison Chabloz is the latest success for Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) in bringing antisemites to justice. Just a week before Ms Chabloz was pronounced guilty, another antisemite, Jeremy Bedford-Turner was led from the dock to begin a year-long sentence for a speech...

May 21, 2018, 12:03 PM

Our sickness: Falling for propaganda before waiting for facts on Gaza

There is a sickness in our Jewish community. On Wednesday, two activists, Yochy Davis and Joseph Cohen, filmed a group of Jews standing in Parliament Square saying Kaddish, the Jewish memorial prayer, for a group of Hamas terrorists. To fully appreciate how sickening this was,...

Aug 30, 2017, 2:37 PM

We’ve never had it so good – but how long will we have it?

I have never understood why some people get used to anti-Semitism. There are those in our community who see nothing disturbing about dropping their children off at fortified schools, or passing through airport-style security to enter their synagogue. As anti-Semitic crime surges, they look perplexed...

Jan 14, 2015, 3:04 PM

Britain’s tsunami of anti-Semitism

A new survey confirms the fears of many Jews and should be a wake-up call to the authorities

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Gideon Falter is chairman of the Campaign Against Antisemitism