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Britain’s PM vows to crack down on antisemitism and violent intimidation at pro-Palestinian rallies

Prime Minister Sunak said that the police will be enforcing measures to "stop people from covering their faces to conceal their identity and evade arrest" in street protests.

BBC fires senior employee accused of repeated antisemitic posts

She has been promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial on Facebook for several years.

NHS consultant arrested after selling Jewish conspiracy theory pamphlet

Dr Ranjeet Brar has also claimed that Israel harvests the organs of Palestinians in an echo of the blood libel trope.

Man arrested after threatening with a knife and shouting antisemitic slogans in a Kosher deli

A man wielding a knife and shouting “you are not real Jews” has been arrested at Kay’s kosher delicatessen in Hamilton Road, Golders Green, London.

Poll finds ‘frightening’ rates of antisemitism among young British public

Among the results was that around one-third of the public believes Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews, including over half of 18- to 24-year-olds surveyed.

Rishi Sunak says anyone unable to condemn ‘evil’ Hamas has ‘no conscience or morality’

Sunak added:”I also reject any attempt to draw an equivalence between Israel’s actions and those of the terrorists who videotape their appalling crimes, who rape and murder with gratuitous zealotry.”

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