This article was written in Havana a couple of weeks ago shortly after the announcement of Fidel Castro’s death and published in the Jewish Chronicle. Last Shabbat, the prayer for the state of Israel was recited in the main Havana synagogue. It was also the day when the announcement was made of the passing of […]
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Racist acid attack – Barking vigil Tuesday 29 November at 5pm
On 15 November, Barking resident Imran Khan was subject to a horrific Islamophobic, racist attack by a large gang of youths while he was delivering a pizza. He was surrounded and subjected to racist abuse. He had acid squirted all over his face and eyes through his car window. Barking & Dagenham Post article here. […]
Dead members keep BNP alive
Strange goings on in Pendle where the British National Party’s only district councillor in the UK announced on 23 November that he was going to sit as an independent and on the following day told the BBC he was back with the fascist party. Brian Parker first won his seat, in Marsden ward, in 2006, […]
Faith Matters and TellMama launch First Annual National Hate Crime Awards
Faith Matters and TellMAMA (Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks) have created and launched the first Annual National Hate Crime Awards (#NHCA 2016). For far too long, people within communities as well as organisations have worked tirelessly to challenge hatred, intolerance and prejudice without any national recognition. We believe that this has to change and this is why […]
Join the rally for Aleppo’s children
Aleppo’s children have been bombed relentlessly by Syrian and Russian warplanes for weeks. Over 1.6 million of us have called for our leaders to step up and protect these terrified children and their families, and now it’s time to take our call to the streets. This Saturday from 12pm we’re gathering outside Downing Street to […]
Day the East End united to fight against the Blackshirts
The following article by Colin Shindler appeared in The JC on 29 September 2016. Oswald Mosley instituted antisemitism as the official policy of the British Union of Fascists only in 1934, some two years after its formation. The annual report of the Board of Deputies for 1932 stated that Mosley had informed the Board that […]
Support the petition for an end to terror in Aleppo
Earlier this year Searchlight reported that the only picket of the Syrian regime’s embassy in London had been organised by Nazis from the London Forum and Polish Nazis from the NOP. We hope that opponents of fascism everywhere will support the petition below to halt an even worse aerial bombardment than the one by German […]
National Hate Crime Awareness Week – public meeting in Redbridge
Thursday 13 October, 7.30pm to 9pm, Gloucester Room, Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford IG1 1EA Hate crime – crime driven by prejudices against certain groups in society – has never gone away. The police, the council and voluntary sector groups like us, have been supporting victims of hate crime every day in Redbridge. The reality […]
In Shimon Peres, Israel has lost a founding father and voice of reason
Shimon Peres, who served as the ninth president of Israel, died on 28 September 2016 at the age of 93. Colin Schindler reflects on his life and achievements. The transformation of Szymon Perski from Vishnyeva in Belarus into Shimon Peres, a founding father of the state of Israel, is a reflection of how the Jews […]
1936 – they did not pass; 2016 – they still do not pass
Next month we will remember those anti-fascists who in their ten of thousands prevented the march of Sir Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists into the heart of the Jewish working class borough of Stepney (now Tower Hamlets). We also salute those of them who went on to defend […]
Three weekends and two flops for London Forum
A fascist thief is to receive an award for his crime at the London Forum meeting on Saturday 24 September. David Czerwonko, a Polish chef who has lived in England for two years, was fined £185 at Westminster magistrates’ court on 19 September after admitting snatching a pink beret from the head of the comedian […]
Bletchley woman loses baby in ‘racist’ attack
A pregnant woman has lost her baby after she was kicked and fell to the floor in a “racially aggravated” attack, the BBC reported on 13 September. The 34 year old was shopping in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, when she was racially insulted by a man, police said. He later followed her and kicked her in […]
Turning the searchlight on the enemies of democracy
Welcome back to the Searchlight website. After we posted several reports that exposed the increasing violence of the British extreme right and their international links, we were bombarded with attacks. As we were planning a relaunch of Searchlight later in the year, we temporarily suspended the website, but of course carried on with our work […]
Seventeen Jewish graves desecrated in Belfast cemetery
Seventeen Jewish graves have been destroyed and vandalised in what appears to have been an organised attack inside a Belfast cemetery, The Guardian reported on 28 August. Up to eight youths, some using hammers, attacked the graves in west Belfast on Friday evening, according to a member of the Northern Ireland assembly. The Police Service […]
Extreme right awareness workshop
Northampton University is putting on a one-day workshop led by Dr Paul Jackson, an academic expert in the dynamics of the British far and extreme right. The workshop on Friday 16 September will draw on the latest academic research, material from the extreme right itself, and intelligence from Searchlight to offer the latest analysis of […]
