‘Don’t like gay people and Jews’: PR firm boss is unwittingly recorded making anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs after interviewing Will Young for his Media Masters podcast series Paul Blanchard made the comments shortly after interviewing the British singer ‘Don’t like gay people. Just gay people and Jews,’ Blanchard can be heard saying Host – who … Read more
Grime rapper Wiley is accused of antisemitism after likening Jews to the Ku Klux Klan – describing them as ‘two sets of people who nobody has really wanted to challenge’ Rapper Wiley has been accused of launching a 12-hour Antisemitic Twitter rant He is alleged to have tweeted several Antisemitic tropes throughout the day Several … Read more
Leader of Britain’s largest Muslim charity quits after labelling Jews ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ and calling Egypt’s president a ‘Zionist pimp’ in anti-Semitic Facebook posts Heshmat Khalifa said Jews are ‘grandchildren of monkeys and pigs’ on Facebook Mr Khalifa described Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a ‘Zionist pimp’ After being confronted with the … Read more
Hasidic Jews ignore social distancing rules during coronavirus lockdown as hundreds gather to mark festival despite previous Covid-19 rates being six times higher among Jewish people Crowd of around 300 were spotted marking Lag BaOmer in Stamford Hill Comes despite PM saying one person can only meet on other outside household Last month, police broke … Read more
Coronavirus has sparked rise in anti-Semitism with Jews blamed for the spread of Covid-19 Findings in report by Tel Aviv University show 18% spike in attacks against Jews Report warns that pandemic has threatened to ‘amp up’ incitement even more Right-wing politicians, ultra-conservative pastors, anti-Zionists and Iranian state blamed Learn more about how to help … Read more
A sharp rise in the number of Jewish people who have died from coronavirus has led to community leaders changing the rules of a major religious festival to allow people to be buried. In normal circumstances, no one can be laid to rest during the first two days of Passover which starts tonight. But with … Read more
Historians will today begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope, hoping to discover why Pius XII stayed silent during the Holocaust. More than 200 researchers applied for permission to settle in one of the small studies of the Vatican Apostolic Archives to begin poring over millions of letters and documents the Vatican kept … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE SISTERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Roxane Van Iperen (Seven Dials £18.99, 320 pp) When Dutch author and journalist Roxane van Iperen and her husband first glimpsed The High Nest, they fell instantly in love with it. A romantic, shuttered house tucked away in the woods 30 miles from Amsterdam, with friendly … Read more
BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN TIME STOPPED: A MEMOIR OF MY FATHER’S WAR by Ariana Neumann (Scribner £16.99, 368pp) In the opening pages of this beautifully written, heart-wrenching memoir of love and family and war is a detailed family tree of the author’s Czech heritage. It seems dauntingly complex as family trees often do, littered … Read more