The Campaign Against Antisemitism under the spotlight
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Richard Kuper
JVL Introduction
Hopefully the net is closing in on the so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism, a registered charity in the UK which seems more obsessed by anti-left political posturing than by any concerns about genuine antisemitism.
Haroon Siddique, the Guardian’s Legal Affairs correspondent, reports here on the latest complaint filed by JVL with the Charity Commission, which has confirmed that it is looking into the matter.
This article was originally published by the Guardian on Wed 4 Jan 2023. Read the original here.
UK charities watchdog ‘assesses concerns’ about Campaign Against Antisemitism
Commission opens ‘regulatory compliance case’ after complaints that the charity is politically partisan
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The Tories have been busily stuffing the Charity Commission with its own *place-people* ~ so I’m not holding my breath. CAA has achieved its main, undeclared, aim – of removing Jeremy Corbyn from the leadership of the LP. JOB DONE. I don’t suppose they will cry buckets of tears if they get closed down [there are a few other similar *front* groups around].
Thank goodness CAA activities are NOW being impartially investigated. Very late in the day, though,
We can only hope it’ll be a thorough, searching investigation with painful consequences for any wrongdoers (individual and corporate).
Margaret Hodge [said the CAA] was “more concerned with undermining Labour than rooting out antisemitism”?
MARGARET HODGE said that?
Words fail me. It is not often that words fail me, but they fail me right now.
Margaret Hodge?????????
In my view, the ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ is phoney. Based on lack of real regulation and other doubtful charitable institutions which it seems to allow to get away with it, I think that the Charity Commission is phoney.
Thank you again JVL colleagues. I wish you success in nailing the CAA.
My old school, St Paul’s, then in West Kensington, has another former pupil who founded and directed (and still does, for all I know) the CAA. That man produced some sort of lecture a year or two ago which was to be transmitted to members of the Old Pauline Club. When I heard about this I told the school they could, on free speech grounds, transmit the programme, but in no way and in no circumstances give it any sort of approval.
I pointed out to the School that it had been founded by John Colet, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, in 1509, for pupils from ALL NATIONS AND COUNTRIES. Not, it should be noted, from all nations and countries except Palestine.
My comments appeared to have been noted by the School, but I have to say that the current status of the School is controversial because it did have a Christian ethos and I don’t know what, if any, ethos it now has.
The Charity Commission has clearly been only-too-happy to look the other way as far as the CAA is concerned.
The CAA’s charitable status is phoney.
That has been obvious all along.
Perhaps an enquiry into the functioning of the Commission is required.
As I understand it, the CAA has three “directors”, one of whom has their identity concealed.
It also has a board of patrons (now concealed) that was packed with Tories, the Labour Right and others of questionable provenance.
How can a legitimate charity conceal the identities of senior personnel and its funding streams?