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July 7, 2024, 10:53 am

Teenager who called Jews on a train ‘baby killers’ found guilty of racial harassment

Ilham Ahmed fined for abusing passengers who were returning from a march against antisemitism on a Thameslink train

By Michelle Rosenberg

December 1, 2022, 2:49 pm

OPINION: Dropping of case against Jew-baiters was suspect

Author and barrister David Wolchover questions the competence of the Crown Prosecution Service after its failure to charge those accused of taking part in the now infamous 'hate convoy'.

By David Wolchover

August 2, 2022, 6:24 pm

OPINION: Smoke and mirrors from the CPS cannot hide the truth

Gideon Falter, chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, responds to a piece in last week's Jewish News by the hate crime lead prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service.

By Gideon Falter

West Ham fans are facing a trial accused of directing chants towards a man in Orthodox Jewish dress while on a departing flight to a European match, 2021, (Twitter)

July 27, 2022, 4:09 pm

Prosecuting Jew hate: there are times when we didn’t make the right call, CPS admits

EXCLUSIIVE: After a notorious case involving an antisemitic football song was dropped, one senior leader tells Jewish News they want to learn more from the community

By Michael Daventry

Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service

July 27, 2022, 3:55 pm

OPINION: Our prosecutors are working with Jewish groups to fight antisemitism

Lionel Idan, the lead prosecutor for hate crime at the Crown Prosecution Service, says he wants to bring more hate crime offenders to justice

By Lionel Idan

The London Stadium at another West Ham game against European opposition in 2016

May 26, 2022, 3:59 pm

West Ham fan banned for three years for Nazi salute to Austrian club’s supporters

Hornchurch resident Daniel Garner, 26, claimed to be intoxicated but was told: 'Football fans should never have to tolerate abusive behaviour'

By Toby Porter

Caroline Flack with Eyal Booker on the left and with her friend Mollie Grosberg on the right

February 17, 2020, 4:03 pm

Eyal Booker, Jess Glynne and Stacey Solomon pay tribute to Caroline Flack

Jewish celebrities remember former Love Island and I’m A Celebrity host who took her own life in her flat in Stoke Newington on Saturday

By Francine Wolfisz

August 5, 2019, 10:26 am

Paedophile who abused boys at Carmel College has 19-year sentence halved

Court of Appeal has reduced Trevor Bolton's sentence to nine years, after he was sent to prison for crimes against students at the boarding school between 1968 and 1988

By Jewish News Reporter

September 4, 2018, 10:22 am

Committee to probe why there’s been no rise in hate crime prosecutions

Cross-party Women and Equalities Committee to grill senior police officers prosecutors and anti-Semitism experts on Wednesday

Nazim Ali (left) with an anti-Zionist rabbi from Neturei Karta

September 3, 2018, 11:55 am

CAA launches legal action against CPS for blocking Al Quds Day organiser case

Anti-Semitism charity judicial review proceedings against the Crown Prosecution Service, after it intervened to stop Nazim Ali facing a judge

July 4, 2018, 10:12 am

Westminster paedophile accuser to be charged with lying about abuse

Son of late Lord Janner will 'happily' drop private prosecution against accuser, after CPS says man will be charged with perverting the course of justice and fraud

Blogger Alison Chabloz arriving at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, January 2018.

Credit: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

January 11, 2018, 12:13 pm

Holocaust denier sings anti-Semitic songs to Jewish melodies, court told

Alison Chabloz promoted anti-Semitism online by reworking famous Jewish melodies like Hava Nagila and Heivenu Shalom Aleichem.

By Jenni Frazer

October 17, 2017, 2:52 pm

Concern over falling numbers of prosecutions for hate crime

Jewish community leaders express worry as anti-Semitic incidents rise but fewer are being referred to the police

By Jewish News Reporter

Examples of far-right, and conspiratorial anti-Semitic material found online

August 21, 2017, 9:38 am

New guidance for tackling online hate crime welcomed by community leaders

Measures announced by the Crown Prosecution Service will seek to treat internet-based hate as seriously as if it had occurred face-to-face

By Jewish News Reporter

Alison Chabloz during her video, which called Auschwitz a 'theme park'

December 28, 2016, 2:07 pm

‘Anti-Semitic’ musician has bail conditions tightened

Alison Chabloz on trial after producing a video which questions the Holocaust, calls Auschwitz a theme park and says gas chambers were a hoax

By Jenni Frazer

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