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Swindon council official exposed as punk-rocker neo-Nazi

Leon Mayer, who works for Swindon Borough Council as a systems development officer, secretly ran a Twitter feed that contains vile references to Jews

By Nic North

4 min read

Leon Mayer, who works for Swindon Borough Council as a systems development officer, is confronted by Jewish Chronicle reporter.

Antisemitism

Kanye West says he'll go ‘death con 3' on Jews in now-removed tweet

By Ben Bloch

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'Jewish Twitter' IS a community and it's not just about fighting antisemitism

By Nicole Lampert

'Jewish Twitter' IS a community and it's not just about fighting antisemitism

3 min read

Why Jewish Twitter is so different from other online communities

By David Baddiel

Why Jewish Twitter is so different from other online communities

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Mental health

Dad of JFS pupil believed to have taken her own life calls for social media reform

By Georgia L Gilholy

2 min read

Holocaust education

Hundreds offers prayers to survivor Lily Ebert after 'sudden' hospitalisation

By Ben Bloch

3 min read

Social media algorithms poison our children

By Sabrina Miller

Social media algorithms poison our children

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Jewish vice president of Meta reveals how her confidence was smashed by bigoted teacher at school

Nicola Mendelsohn tells podcast she felt her life could have been 'destroyed' by the discrimination she suffered at Manchester High School for Girls

By Felix Pope

2 min read

August 25, 2022 09:26

Nicola Mendelsohn, Vice President of EMEA at Facebook, speaks during an event to launch the social media company's latest product "Workplace", in central London on October 10, 2016. Social network giant Facebook launched new global product Workplace, a platform that it hopes will replace intranet, mailbox and other internal communication tools used by businesses worldwide. It is intended to compete with similar office communication products including Microsoft's Yammer, Salesforce's Chatter and Slack. / AFP / Justin TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Anger as activist who tweeted ‘victory to the intifada’ is handed £60k charity grant

Joshua Virasami was given the grant in July by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to fund a publication provisionally called Building Black Liberation

By Georgia L Gilholy

3 min read

August 18, 2022 10:13

Anger as activist who tweeted ‘victory to the intifada’ is handed £60k charity grant

Sparkling friends turn glitter to gold

Entrepreneurs' venture is really starting to shine

By Sandy Rashty

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August 11, 2022 15:42

By Nick Cohen

How Maajid Nawaz went from hero to conspiracy theorist

His ideas now are not so far from the ravings of the dogmatists he once exposed

3 min read

August 4, 2022 08:28

How Maajid Nawaz went from hero to conspiracy theorist

Axe falls on charity which gave millions to TV channel that called Jews ‘cursed’ and ‘a cancer’

Peace TV, which has has repeatedly been condemned by Ofcom for broadcasting hate speech, is to be immediately dissolved on the orders of the Charity Commission

By David Rose

2 min read

June 1, 2022 09:56

Axe falls on charity which gave millions to TV channel that called Jews ‘cursed’ and ‘a cancer’

The reporters who exposed Facebook's inner workings

Jennifer Lipman meets a reporter whose damning book about the inner workings of Mark Zuckerman’s Metaverse became a bestseller

By Jennifer Lipman

8 min read

May 31, 2022 08:56

The reporters who exposed Facebook's inner workings

So just what does it take to get a YouTube ‘hate’ channel taken down?

The streaming giant has been condemned for 'irresponsible negligence'

By Jonathan Sacerdoti

2 min read

May 26, 2022 14:12

So just what does it take to get a YouTube ‘hate’ channel taken down?

Apple to block Holocaust photos from appearing in iPhone 'memories'

The company has published a list of 'sensitive locations' that pictures will be blocked from appearing in iPhone memories

By Josh Kaplan

1 min read

May 9, 2022 13:19

Apple to block Holocaust photos from appearing in iPhone 'memories'

Jewish student smeared by lecturer as ‘the Lobby’ still waiting for response to her complaint

The undergraduate claims Glasgow University is 'blatantly delaying' the results of its investigation into social media posts made by lecturer Muir Houston

By Felix Pope

1 min read

May 5, 2022 14:28

18/1/22 Pic showing Dr Muir Houston at his home in Paisley, he is embroiled in an anti Semitic scandal at Glasgow University.

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Swindon council official exposed as punk-rocker neo-Nazi

Kanye West says he'll go ‘death con 3' on Jews in now-removed tweet

'Jewish Twitter' IS a community and it's not just about fighting antisemitism

Why Jewish Twitter is so different from other online communities

Dad of JFS pupil believed to have taken her own life calls for social media reform

Hundreds offers prayers to survivor Lily Ebert after 'sudden' hospitalisation

Social media algorithms poison our children

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