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anti-Semitism in Britain

Actor Eddie Marsan poses for photographers during the 70th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in Italy, on September 3, 2013. (AP Photo/David Azia)
October 16, 2021, 5:59 pm
UK actor faces ‘relentless’ abuse for playing Jewish character in BBC series
Eddie Marsan, who is not Jewish, portrays leader of anti-fascist group in ‘Ridley Road’; Twitter users claim he supports ‘apartheid’ and the show is ‘favoring Zionists’
By ToI Staff
A man in traditional Muslim garb is seen punching an ultra-Orthodox man in the street, in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill. (Screenshot/Twitter)
September 3, 2021, 9:08 am
Man arrested for 5 attacks on Jews in London’s Stamford Hill
Metropolitan Police say 28-year-old held in custody on suspicion of carrying out multiple ‘unprovoked assaults on Jewish people’ over last month
By ToI Staff
A man in traditional Muslim garb is seen punching an ultra-Orthodox man in the street, in the heavily-Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill. (Screenshot/Twitter)
August 24, 2021, 12:37 am
London suspect at large after punching Jewish man, child in separate attacks
Assaults part of major increase in antisemitic incidents in UK where 1,038 of them took place in first half of 2021 alone, compared to 875 in same period last year
By Cnaan Liphshiz
This photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Benjamin Hannam. (Metropolitan Police via AP)
May 1, 2021, 1:47 pm
London ex-police officer jailed for 4 years for neo-Nazi group membership
Judge says he accepts Benjamin Hannam didn’t deliberately infiltrate force to serve organization; case is 1st conviction of UK cop for belonging to outlawed far-right group
By ToI Staff and AP
This photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Benjamin Hannam. (Metropolitan Police via AP)
April 2, 2021, 4:19 am
In 1st, London cop convicted of neo-Nazi group membership
Head of Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism unit says Benjamin Hannam would never been allowed to join force ‘had we known then of his interest in the extreme right wing’
By AP
University of Bristol sociologist David Miller in a video uploaded February 15, 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)
March 26, 2021, 11:39 am
UK police: Academic calling Jewish students ‘pawns’ of Israel may be hate crime
Bristol University sociologist David Miller cites Jewish Society when endorsing ‘end of Zionism as a functioning ideology’; some claim comments fall under academic freedom
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A slide from a homework assignment that blames Jews for Jesus' death. (Joanne Bell via Topmarks/Twitter/JTA))
March 5, 2021, 6:23 pm
UK school apologizes after homework assignment blames Jews for killing Jesus
Mother horrified to discover her 7-year-old given slides that said Pontius Pilate bowed to the will of the Jewish masses who wanted Jesus to die
By Cnaan Liphshiz
BBC panelists discuss Jews' status as an ethnic minority, March 1, 2021. (Screenshot)
March 3, 2021, 3:57 am
BBC debate on whether Jews are an ethnic minority group sparks outrage
Show featuring four non-Jewish panelists discussing minority status touches raw nerve for UK community; Jewish guest on segment calls it ‘frankly ridiculous’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
University of Bristol lecturer David Miller. (YouTube screenshot)
February 27, 2021, 6:12 am
Nearly 200 scholars back UK lecturer who called Jewish students Israel ‘pawns’
David Miller of University of Bristol says he supports ‘end of Zionism,’ says Jews on campus are used by a ‘violent, racist, foreign regime engaged in ethnic cleansing’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Toyin Agbetu (YouTube screenshot)
From the WebFebruary 26, 2021, 8:29 am
London ‘statue diversity’ appointee quits after anti-Semitism accusations
Activist Toyin Agbetu resigns from panel examining city landmarks following Jewish News reports on his problematic past comments on Jews
Illustrative: People board a bus outside Waterloo station in London, Sept. 23, 2020. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)
February 13, 2021, 6:53 am
Woman punches Holocaust survivor and rabbi son on London bus: ‘I hate you Jews’
Witnesses say assailant also told victims: ‘It’s not your place. You took our money’; passengers intervened and asked driver to take attacker to police station but he declined
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)
February 11, 2021, 4:42 am
Despite COVID lockdowns, only slight drop in anti-Semitic incidents in Britain
Security group records 1,668 anti-Jewish attacks in 2020, including 100 violent assaults, says pandemic fueling conspiracy theories
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Material seized by British police from the home of a boy in Cornwall convicted on terror charges. (Courtesy/British police)
February 8, 2021, 6:00 pm
Teen neo-Nazi who talked about ‘gassing’ Jews is UK’s youngest terror convict
Boy, now 16, avoids prison sentence, is sent to youth rehab center for 2 years after pleading guilty to 10 counts of possessing terrorist material, 2 of disseminating terror docs
By ToI Staff
Baroness Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)
February 7, 2021, 8:33 am
Anti-Israel UK lawmaker who blamed anti-Semitism rise on Jewish groups retires
Baroness Jenny Tonge to step down this month but says she will ‘continue to campaign for justice for the people of Palestine’; last year called Israel the ‘puppet master’ of the US
By ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left: Philip Sassoon; both gay and anti-Semitic, SA head Ernst Röhm, left, and his deputy Edmund Heines, right; Ronald Cartland; Victor Cazalet; Berlin gay club Eldorado; Robert Bernays. (Public domain; Bundesarchiv Bild)
January 29, 2021, 9:57 pm
Without these queer MPs, the UK would never have gone to war with Hitler
Labour MP and former minister Chris Bryant’s new book shows how the ‘Glamour Boys’ faced their own government’s dirty tactics as they fought anti-Semitism, cooperation with Germany
By Robert Philpot
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