(Jewish News) A Charity Commission disqualification order against National Jewish Assembly chair Gary Mond has been quashed after a tribunal ruled in favour of his right to free speech.
Mond was disqualified from acting as a charity trustee or senior manager for two and a half years because of online activity which the tribunal accepted could be “perceived as anti-Islam.”
The former Board of Deputies senior vice-president was a trustee of the Jewish National Fund UK before the commission said it was investigating his posts, which led to him being disqualified in 2023.
He has subsequently spent £60,000 on an appeal against the decision — and last Thursday a tribunal ruled the Commission’s order to disqualify Mond to be undesirable “in order to protect public trust and confidence in charities generally.”
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