News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A Jewish campaigner who was threatened with being arrested by the police for being near a pro-Palestine march has accused the Met of allowing "no-go zones for Jews".
A Londoner whose baby's birth certificate was "defaced" by Home Office staff no longer feels safe in the U.K. as cases of antisemitism continue to rise across the country.
A retired sociology professor has been stripped of her honorary titles by two universities after suggesting on social media that someone should "blow up the venue" of a Jewish Labour conference.
Tens of thousands of people, including former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have marched through Central London in a demonstration against antisemitism, marking the first of its kind since the Israel-Gaza war began.
The BBC is under fire for preventing staff from joining a national march against antisemitism, with figures like Rachel Riley and David Baddiel set to join the event.
Douglas Murray's critics are wrong, says Robert Kogon: it's not a "trivialisation of the Holocaust" to suggest that gleefully burning Jews alive or beheading them is an atrocity of a similar kind.
Proposed changes to U.K. law aim to grant police authority to ban pro-Palestinian marches, citing a rise in antisemitic incidents and concerns about their impact on the Jewish community.
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