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GMC urged to finally act on ‘antisemitic’ doctor who rants about ‘Jews’ Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, part of Palestine Action before the group was proscribed this month, regularly tweets about 'Jews' — rejecting the mask of more broadly talking about 'Zionists'

July 14, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Jewish News) Jewish communal organisations have called for urgent action from the General Medical Council regarding a doctor who still holds a medical licence despite increasingly antisemitic rants about “the Jews” — with the GMC understood to have dropped a case into […]

Legal group calls to ban UK children’s summer camp tied to pro-Iran charity

July 13, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) Legal experts and politicians have warned that a British summer camp run by the Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission (AIM) charity, which is accused of backing Iran, risks exposing children to extremist views, according to a report by the Telegraph. Legal lobby […]

‘Review it!’: Man who led Muslim police ‘boycott over rape gangs scapegoat’ awarded MBE for ‘cohesion’ Sir Keir Starmer ordered a full-scale national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal after Baroness Casey released her report

July 13, 2025 Ed Griffiths

(GB News) A man who led a Muslim community boycott of the police after the Rotherham rape gang scandal has been awarded an MBE for “services to integration” and “cohesion.” Muhbeen Hussain called for Muslims to cut ties with South Yorkshire Police […]

Exposed: London mosque hosted vigil for British Hezbollah terrorist killed in Lebanon Event at Imam Hussain Mosque mourned UK national Muhammad Baalbaki, named in Hezbollah funeral notice

July 11, 2025 Annabel Sinclair

(Jewish News) A mosque in north-west London hosted a vigil for a British citizen named in a Hezbollah funeral poster as a fallen fighter, Jewish News can reveal. Details of the November 2024 event at the Imam Hussain Mosque in Brondesbury were […]

Mosque glorified Hamas in video post, inquiry finds

July 11, 2025 Paul Pigott

(BBC) Trustees of a mosque in south Wales have been given a formal warning by the Charity Commission after sharing a video in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attacks showing a “positive image” of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist group in […]

‘Physical threat’ from Iran on people living in UK has ‘increased significantly,’ watchdog says The Intelligence and Security Committee says there have been 15 Iran-backed murder or kidnap attempts on UK targets since the beginning of 2022 [through] August 2023.

July 10, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) The threat of physical attacks by Iran on people living in the UK has increased “significantly” since 2022, according to a new report by parliament’s intelligence watchdog. Iran poses a “wide-ranging, persistent and unpredictable threat” to the UK, according to […]

‘Serious blunder’ led to missed chances to stop Rochdale imam’s murder, inquiry finds Mohammed Kadir, who murdered Jalal Uddin in 2016, was known to counter-terrorism police and had been identified as a person of high risk and significant concern. But action was not taken to investigate him.

July 10, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) A “serious blunder” by officials meant they failed to disrupt a murder plot against an imam by Islamic State (IS) extremists, an inquiry has found. Father-of-seven Jalal Uddin, 71, was bludgeoned to death with a hammer in Rochdale in February […]

UK government blocked own Islamophobia advisers from consulting Muslim organisations Working group appointed to draw up new definition has not been allowed to engage with Muslim Council of Britain, but consulted public figures accused of Islamophobia

July 9, 2025 Imran Mulla

(Middle East Eye) The British government blocked a working group it set up to advise on a possible definition of Islamophobia from consulting the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), while the group consulted prominent figures and organisations themselves accused of Islamophobia, Middle […]

European Muslim leaders visit Yad Vashem in Jerusalem The group laid a wreath and lit an eternal flame in honor of the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Holocaust.

July 9, 2025 Unlisted Author

(JNS) A group of European imams and senior Muslim leaders visited Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center on Tuesday, where they laid a wreath in honor of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The delegation — visiting the Jewish state […]

MP uses ‘gas chambers’ slur as he criticises Israeli plan to ‘concentrate’ Gazans in Rafah Independent MP Adnan Hussain had shared a report on comments made by an Israeli minister on plans to 'concentrate' the population of Gaza in Rafah

July 8, 2025 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) The independent MP Adnan Hussain has drawn criticism after referencing “gas chambers” as he shared a newspaper report on Israel’s defence minister calling for the IDF to “concentrate” the population of Gaza in an area of Rafah. Highlighting the word “concentrate” the […]

Group of Europe-based imams visits Israel, bearing ‘message of peace’ Delegation meets President Herzog; will spend a week touring the country, and meeting military, political and religious authorities, victims of October 7

July 7, 2025 Rossella Tercatin

(Times of Israel) When Imam Youssef Masbeh introduced himself to President Isaac Herzog on Monday, he could not help but start singing a special chant in Arabic, offering a reinterpretation of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. Masbeh, who has served as a […]

Bombshell report exposes attempts by Muslim Council of Britain group to censor UK media The Muslim Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring complained about reports labelling 'Jihadi John' a terrorist

July 7, 2025 Jack Walters

(GB News) The Muslim Council of Britain’s media monitoring unit “acted in bad faith” by trying to suppress accurate reporting about terrorism and risks curtailing press freedom, a bombshell report has claimed. Policy Exchange tonight released its 94-page report, titled “Bad Faith […]

UK report warns of Iranian plots as Italy reveals covert influence network

July 7, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) A parliamentary report in the UK is set to warn that Iran remains one of the gravest state-based threats to British security, according to the Telegraph, while a separate investigation in Italy has uncovered a vast influence network supporting the […]

Terror watchdog says ‘there is a link’ between undocumented migrants and terror threats to Britain

July 7, 2025 Jacob Paul

(LBC) The UK’s terror watchdog Jonathan Hall has said there is a “link” between migrants arriving in small [boats] and terror threats to Britain. Mr Hall was taking calls to mark the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings on Tom Swarbrick’s LBC show […]

French police are slashing boats but migrants are still determined to reach the UK

July 7, 2025 John Leicester and Nicolas Garriga

(AP) Across the English Channel, the U.K.’s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and determination in their eyes can see the shoreline of what they believe will be a promised land as they attempt […]

Britain marks 20 years since 7/7 — but still won’t name the threat The British establishment would rather not talk about the underlying causes of the mass murder in the capital, ‘Britain's 9/11’

July 7, 2025 TEC News

(European Conservative) Monday, July 7th, is the 20th anniversary of the 7/7 terror attacks which killed 52 Londoners and injured almost 800 more. A gang of Islamist suicide bombers from Leeds, West Yorkshire, arrived in the capital and targeted public transport. Three […]

How the 7/7 bombings changed a generation of British Muslims

July 7, 2025 Sabbiyah Pervez and Hayley Coyle

(BBC) On 7 July 2005, 52 people were killed and hundreds more injured in bombings targeting London’s transport network during rush hour. The attacks sent shockwaves across the world — but particularly so in Leeds where three of the four suicide bombers […]

Muslim dating site blasted as ‘wild, humiliating and disgraceful’ for promoting virgin brides and polygamy: ‘Affront to women’s dignity!’ NikkahGram, a UK-registered Muslim matchmaking service, has been advertising virgin brides and polygamous marriages

July 6, 2025 Gabrielle Wilde

(GB News) Khadija Khan has launched a scathing attack on a Muslim dating website, condemning it as “wild, humiliating, disgraceful” and “an affront to women’s dignity.” The culture editor at A Further Inquiry told GB News that the site represents “religious misogyny […]

UK forced to rethink approach to terrorism 20 years after deadly 7/7 attacks Experts say narrow focus on Islamist extremism fostered far-right sentiment

July 6, 2025 Lemma Shehadi

(National-UAE) The 20th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks in London, on Monday, throws a spotlight on how the UK’s counter-terrorism approach changed, and how its focus on Islamist groups has deepened social divisions. The bombings, also referred to as 7/7, […]

How Prevent is tackling young extremism 20 years after the 7/7 bombings Over the last six years, 50% of referrals to the deradicalisation programme Prevent have been children under the age of 18, with 11 to 15-year-olds being the largest age group to get referred.

July 6, 2025 Jason Farrell

(Sky News) Radicalised nine-year-olds, teenagers mixing incel culture with extreme right ideologies and a Muslim who idolises Hitler — this is just some of the casework of those tasked with deradicalising young extremists in the UK. Monday will mark 20 years since […]

Charity warned over sermon after 7 October attacks

July 5, 2025 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A charity has been formally warned and one of its trustees disqualified after an “inflammatory” sermon in the days after the 7 October Hamas attacks on Israel. Language in the Nottingham Islam Information Point sermon, on 13 October 2023, included “the […]

Student accused of supporting Hamas appears in court Despite SOAS university being repeatedly informed of Sarah Cotte's actions, it appears to have repeatedly declined to act for 17 months until she was charged

July 4, 2025 Daniel Sugarman

(Jewish News) A student accused of expressing support for Hamas and the 7 October attacks two days after the massacre has appeared at the Old Bailey, denying two charges of expressing “an opinion or belief in support of a proscribed organisation.” Sarah […]

Report: Netherlands fails to protect women from forced marriage, genital mutilation

July 4, 2025 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Netherlands is failing to prevent forced marriages, abandonment abroad, and female genital mutilation, putting hundreds to thousands — mostly girls and women — at serious risk each year. A new study by research agency Right to Rise, commissioned by […]

Channel migrants ’24 times more likely to go to prison’ than Britons More than 20,000 small boat migrants have now crossed the English Channel so far this year

July 3, 2025 George Bunn

(GB News) New analysis has suggested small boat migrants are 24 times more likely to go to prison than the average British citizen. The rate of foreign citizens in jail when compared to the overall migrant population in the UK is 0.18 […]

Sultana leaves Labour to set up new party with Corbyn Jewish Labour source says 'Corbyn and Sultana have much in common — Labour is better off without them'

July 3, 2025 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) Zarah Sultana has resigned from the Labour Party to “co-lead the founding of a new party” with Jeremy Corbyn. The Coventry South MP, who has sat as an independent since she had the Labour whip withdrawn last year, made the […]

France struggles to halt migrants crossing the Channel

July 1, 2025 Sameer Al-Doumy

(AFP) Within hours of dawn breaking on a scorching day, five boats carrying dozens of migrants departed from the beaches of northern France bound for the English coast. Some 20 migrants set off from Equihen beach in the northern Pas-de-Calais region around […]

Grooming gang ringleader builds new home in Pakistan after £285k taxpayer handout amid deportation battle Rauf was part of a nine-member Asian gang

June 30, 2025 Ed Griffiths

(GB News) A convicted paedophile who led the Rochdale grooming gang has constructed a property in his native Pakistan whilst claiming £285,000 in taxpayer-funded legal aid to fight deportation from Britain. Qari Abdul Rauf, 55, built the house in his home village […]

Culture secretary accuses pro-Gaza MP of ‘aligning himself with antisemites’ Independent MP Ayoub Khan had attempted to downplay chantings of 'Death to the IDF' at Glastonbury

June 30, 2025 Lee Harpin

(Jewish News) A Labour minister has accused the pro-Gaza MP Ayoub Khan of “doing nothing for the Palestinian cause by aligning himself with antisemites.” In a fiery Commons exchange, Lisa Nandy took issue with [the] Birmingham Perry Barr [MP after] he responded […]

Islamist antisemitism goes beyond Israeli-Palestinian conflict, CEG report argues The central argument of the near-100-page report is that it is futile to rationalize (or attempt to rationalize) Islamist antisemitism as a response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

June 30, 2025 Mathilda Heller

(Jerusalem Post) “There is persuasive evidence of a connection between extremism in the Muslim world and antisemitism,” found a Monday report by the UK-based Counter Extremism Group. The central argument of the nearly 100-page report is that it is futile to rationalize […]

Former home secretary warns Islamic extremism fuelling rise in antisemitism

June 30, 2025 Unlisted Author

(LBC) A former Labour home secretary has warned that Britain faces an “enormous and ongoing threat” from Islamic terrorism in a major new report. Lord Blunkett, home secretary from 2001-2004, made the comments in the foreword of the Counter Extremism Group’s latest […]

Man who posted support on social media for terrorist groups jailed

June 27, 2025 Metropolitan Police

(Press Release) A man who posted supportive messages on social media about proscribed terrorist groups as well as antisemitic posts has been jailed. Zakir Hussain, 30 (09.01.95) of Harlow, was arrested in March last year after officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism […]

British MPs grill Iran envoy over threats against UK-based journalists

June 25, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Iran International) Iran’s ambassador to London has dismissed allegations that the Islamic Republic was involved in threats against UK-based Iranian journalists in his first appearance before the UK Parliament. Ambassador Ali Mousavi was attending a meeting of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs […]

Palestine Action ‘to be banned’ as terror group, home secretary says The activist group will be proscribed by the government, meaning supporting or being a member of the organisation will be illegal. It comes after activists broke into RAF Brize Norton and damaged aircraft.

June 23, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Sky News) Palestine Action will be proscribed as a terrorist organisation, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said. The action has been taken after the activist group claimed responsibility for breaking into RAF Brize Norton last week. Footage released online by Palestine Action […]

Muslim campaigner explains why he pushed for rape gang inquiry as he warns those ‘with something to hide’ The Faith Matters founder spoke to Camilla Tominey on GB News

June 22, 2025 Ben Chapman

(GB News) Fiyaz Mughal, founder of Faith Matters, has sharply criticised Bradford’s resistance to investigating grooming gangs, declaring that “anyone resisting any investigation has got something to hide.” Speaking on GB News, Mughal expressed particular concern about those opposing inquiries into child […]

Mass pro-ayatollah rally in London turns violent, Israeli-Iranian counter-protest stands strong The small pro-Israel and anti-regime counter-protest featured several hundred Israelis and Iranians, most of whom were flying Israeli or the Iranian diaspora flags.

June 22, 2025 Mathilda Heller

(Jerusalem Post) Another massive pro-Iranian regime protest took place in central London on Saturday, featuring posters of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with the words “choose the right side of history,” and “hands off Iran” chants. The demonstration — coordinated by the […]

London police charge seven Iranians with assault after embassy incident

June 22, 2025 Alistair Smout

(Reuters) London police on Sunday said they had charged seven Iranians with grievous bodily harm after a reported fight at a protest near the embassy last week. London’s Metropolitan Police said they had been alerted to an apparent fight outside the Iranian […]

Two more arrests made in UK linked to Cyprus terrorism investigation

June 21, 2025 Ioanna Mantzipa

(Philenews) Two additional arrests have been made in the United Kingdom in connection with an ongoing terrorism investigation in Cyprus, according to reliable sources from Phileleftheros, with the individuals detained and allegedly directly related to the case. Cyprus authorities’ investigations surrounding the […]

Iran terror attack against Israelis in Cyprus foiled, FM says

June 21, 2025 Unlisted Author

(Philenews) Cypriot police have thwarted an Iranian plot to attack Israeli citizens in Cyprus, according to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. An Azerbaijani suspect linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has been arrested and charged with terrorism offences. The suspect, believed to be […]

British man arrested in Cyprus suspected of spying and terror offences

June 21, 2025 Joe Inwood

(BBC) A British man has been arrested in Cyprus on suspicion of spying and terror-related offences. The BBC understands he is thought to have carried out surveillance for Iran on the RAF Akrotiri base on the island. Local media say he is […]

‘Devious and perverted’ imam raped boy at mosque

June 20, 2025 Adam Laver and Charles Heslett

(BBC) An imam at a mosque in Bradford has been jailed for 13 years for raping a teenage boy. Mohammed Khan, 57, used his position at Suffa Tul Islam Mosque, then on Sunbridge Road, to groom and assault the boy on five […]

Reading attack victim’s dad ‘still chasing’ changes

June 20, 2025 Phil Mercer and Nathan Briant

(BBC) The father of a man murdered in a Reading park said relatives of victims have had to “drag” governments to make meaningful changes. Gary Furlong’s son James, David Wails and Joe Ritchie-Bennett were stabbed to death by Khairi Saadallah in Forbury […]

Service marks five years since park attack

June 20, 2025 Briony Leyland

(BBC) A service has been held to mark the fifth anniversary of a deadly attack in a park in which three men were killed. James Furlong, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and David Wails were fatally stabbed by Khairi Saadallah in Forbury Gardens, Reading, Berkshire, […]

IS supporter admits sharing terrorist materials

June 20, 2025 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man has admitted distributing terrorist materials and encouraging support for the Islamic State group. Abdullah Bellil, 29, was arrested at his home in East Street, Southampton, in December. He pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to four counts of sharing […]

Man in court on terror and arson charges

June 20, 2025 Jeremy Britton

(BBC) A man charged with terrorism offences, a bomb hoax and arson attacks on two leisure centres is set to face trial next year. Ilyas Akhtar, 20, of Cress Road, Slough, is charged with one count of preparing terrorist acts and a […]

Ex-Muslim Council of Britain chief warns grooming gang review leading to ‘scapegoating’ of Pakistani culture

June 19, 2025 Kurt Zindulka

(Breitbart) The former head of the Muslim Council of Britain has warned that the recent review on child rape grooming gangs threatens … “the scapegoating of British Pakistani culture” and the Islamic community. A government-backed review published this week, which gathered already […]

Former Rochdale MP says he was ‘warned’ not to mention ethnicity in grooming gangs scandal: ‘They were concerned about votes’ The prime minister told GB News that he is 'glad' to be the leader that has implemented a national inquiry

June 18, 2025 Georgia Pearce

(GB News) Former Labour MP Simon Danczuk has told GB News he was “warned off” by party figures from raising the issue of ethnicity in grooming gangs, due to concerns about “votes.” Speaking to host Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg, the former Rochdale representative […]

France aims to intercept UK-bound migrant boats offshore as Channel crossings surge

June 18, 2025 Gabriel Stargardter

(Reuters) Faced with a growing number of Channel migrant crossings, France hopes to stop more small boats from reaching Britain by changing its rules of engagement to intercept vessels, France’s interior ministry has said. France and Britain hope to unveil the measures […]

Kneecap rapper appears in court on terror charge — as protesters gather outside Liam O'Hanna, or Liam Og O hAnnaidh, is accused of displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah, a proscribed organisation in the UK, at a gig last year.

June 18, 2025 Gemma Peplow

(Sky News) A member of Irish-language rap group Kneecap has appeared in court in London after being charged with a terror offence — as hundreds of protesters gathered in support outside. Liam O’Hanna, or Liam Og O hAnnaidh, is accused of displaying […]

Man denies belonging to Islamic State group

June 17, 2025 Unlisted Author

(BBC) A man has appeared in court, charged with belonging to the Islamic State (IS) group. Musa Abdrabba, 23, from Worcester, is accused of being a member of the proscribed militant organisation between January 2023 and December 2024, and also professing to […]

Flawed data used repeatedly to dismiss claims about ‘Asian grooming gangs,’ Baroness Casey finds The government has accepted the crossbench peer's recommendations to introduce compulsory collection of ethnicity and nationality data for all suspects in grooming cases.

June 16, 2025 Jason Farrell

(Sky News) Flawed data has been used repeatedly to dismiss claims about “Asian grooming gangs,” Baroness Louise Casey has said in a new report, as she called for a new national inquiry. The government has accepted her recommendations to introduce compulsory collection […]