Tell MAMA UK (Monitoring Anti-Muslim Attacks) are publishing engaging new content as part of their social media campaign to bring awareness to the issue of hate in the online gaming community and request your support. They write: This is a phenomenon that particularly impacts young people with diverse identities. By the end of 2016 we […]
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UAF Scotland anti-fascism demo – oppose the Nazi White Pride march in Edinburgh
Unite Against Fascism Scotland is disgusted to announce that the poisonous nazi rump called the National Front intend to come to Edinburgh city centre on 25 March to hold a national, racist, ‘White Pride March’. The National Front are a pale shadow of what they were in the 1970s, when they achieved 100,000s of votes […]
Confronting the rise in racism: public meeting, Redbridge, 2 March
Oxford students disinvite former EDL leader after protests
Oxford Unite Against Fascism reports that an invitation to the fascist activist Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English Defence League, to speak to Oxford Brookes students has been withdrawn following the launch of a UAF open letter and planned protest. Oxford UAF writes further that students from a number of campuses, including Cambridge and […]
Belgian fascist visits Russians in Aleppo
Filip Dewinter, the Belgian fascist MEP, seen here happy in the company of the Russian butchers of Aleppo during his visit to the devastated Syrian city at the beginning of February. Last May Dewinter spoke at the Trump-supporting far-right American Renaissance conference on: “The Islamisation of Europe. How Europe becomes an Islamic State”. He is […]
Blogger ‘who posted a grossly offensive and antisemitic song on YouTube’ denies hate crime charge
A blogger accused of calling Auschwitz a ‘theme park’ and gas chambers a ‘hoax’ appeared in court today in what is believed to be the first private prosecution in the UK for anti-jewish racism, the Daily Mail reports. Alison Chabloz, 52, is accused of posting a ‘grossly offensive’ video, called ‘Survivors’, online on June 8 […]
Ex-leader of Britain First Paul Golding jailed for breach of High Court injunction
The former leader of Britain First was jailed for breaching a court order banning him from entering mosques or Islamic Centres in England and Wales, TellMAMA reports. Paul Golding, 34, was served with a court summons by Bedfordshire Police on 2 November after breaching a High Court injunction granted on August 11. He will serve […]
Labour urged: Actions not words on Syria
The Peter Tatchell Foundation has reported on the Human Rights Day protest by Syria Solidarity UK. Syria Solidarity UK activists were joined by Peter Tatchell when they protested during a speech by Jeremy Corbyn at Westminster Central Hall on Saturday 10 December. They urged the Labour Party to pursue “actions not words” to save civilians […]
Fidel Castro’s paradoxical relationship with Israel and Jews
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 […]
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 […]