6+ hour, 11+ min ago  (364+ words) Mat Shaer retired in 2023 after more than three decades in the force, including 10 years as head of hate crimes A Jewish retired chief superintendent has been appointed as an adviser to West Midlands Police (WMP) following campaigning by Birmingham-based Jewish…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1097+ words) Home Affairs Select Committee condemns force over lack of concern for Jewish community as damning report is published West Midlands Police (WMP) relied on "false information" generated by artificial intelligence (AI) in support of the claim Maccabi Tel Aviv fans…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (172+ words) And yet, I wanted to assess it first-hand. I then received an email informing me that my ticket had been cancelled "on the grounds of security and the integrity of our event space. Apparently, my mere attendance was deemed a…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (252+ words) The Crown Prosecution Service has no data on prosecution or conviction rates for antisemitic crimes. When an organisation cannot scope a problem, it cannot address it That anxiety was palpable at the Jewish Chronicle's "Beyond Two-Tier Justice" event, where I…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (347+ words) The group asked locals to sign a pledge to boycott Israeli products An activist group in Brighton has been accused of carrying out a "campaign of intimidation" by knocking on locals" doors'and asking them to sign a pledge to boycott…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (665+ words) WMP apologised for wrongly telling MPs that it did not use artificial intelligence, which created a fictitious match later included in a report used to justify excluding Israeli fans from the Birmingham fixture An ethics panel questioned West Midlands Police…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (282+ words) The group states it is "pro armed resistance" and "campaigns against Jewish supremacy" Police arrested two people in Birmingham on Sunday ahead of the launch of'a group advocating'liberation via zio eradication.' West Midlands Police arrested a 35-year-old woman'and a 42-year-old'man'before…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (542+ words) Meanwhile, Birmingham JSoc women's team became national champions for the second time The men's and the women's teams at Birmingham University's Jewish Society football club, Maccabi Selly Oak, both celebrated success on the field last week " over 800 miles away from…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1201+ words) Government's former extremism tsar calls for a "major investigation' into exploitation of charity sector by foreign states Police are being urged to investigate a British scout group over fears of extremism radicalising children after some of its members appeared in…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (289+ words) The group's launch event in Birmingham was cancelled after the venue said it could not provide a "safe space' West Midlands police have opened a criminal investigation into activist group the Anti Zionist Movement after it posted'about "zio eradication" ahead…...