Campaign Against Antisemitism

CAA   (NGO)
Motto	Justice, justice you shall pursue
Headquarters	London, UK

Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) is a London-based, militant Zionist, anti free speech NGO. It was formed in August 2014 by members of the Anglo-Jewish community during a major Israeli offensive against Gaza. It was registered as a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) on 1 October 2015 and, despite its overtly political activities, continues to enjoy tax-exempt charitable status under UK law.

In February 2020, the CAA was under investigation by the Charity Commission following a complaint by Dr Shahrar Ali, Green Party Home affairs spokesperson.

In August 2023, Asa Winstanley revealed that the CAA has been funded by the Jewish National Fund to the tune of nearly half a million dollars.

Protest demonstrations

There was massive opposition to the attack on Gaza among the British public; an estimated 150,000 people took to the streets of London in one protest. Such was the climate of opinion that Sayeeda Warsi, then a Foreign Office minister, resigned from the government, describing its support for Israel as “morally indefensible.”

For some time, there had been a constituency within British Zionists who felt that establishment groups such as the Board of Deputies of British Jews were not active enough in defending Israel.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism organised a demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London in late August 2014, which it claimed was 4,500 strong. Its purpose was to link the protests against the attack on Gaza to anti-Semitism.

Ephraim Mirvis, Britain’s Chief Rabbi, spoke at the event, as did Vivian Wineman, then president of the Board of Deputies. Wineman was loudly booed.

CAA Chair

The CAA is chaired by Gideon Falter, who is also a board member of the Jewish National Fund which has a long history of supporting ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The aim of the CAA is to paint Palestine solidarity campaigning and opposition to Zionism as antisemitic. Its preferred McCarthyite tactic appears to be to target left-wing political activists, Corbyn supporters and journalists who are critical of Israel by abusing and smearing them with unsubstantiated allegations.

Prime Ministerial praise

Prime Minister Theresa May has praised the CAA for its work, and former Communities Secretary Sir Eric Pickles published an official statement in January 2015 welcoming the CAA's report on antisemitism.

 

A Campaign Against Antisemitism victim on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Jeremy Corbyn	On Labour's left wing, but on the right side of history!

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	Description
Stephen Silverman	Director of Investigations and Enforcement	June 2015	Trawling social, printed and broadcast media for evidence of Antisemitism and coordinating 'enforcement' action against those deemed guilty of it.

 

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Document:EHRC discredits itself again even as it settles with Livingstone and Bromley	blog post	15 September 2023	Editor	Pam Bromley and Ken Livingstone said: “Rather than fighting this case for potentially another year or more, we believe we need to refocus our resources on tackling the Israel lobby’s current efforts to stifle pro-Palestine speech in schools, universities and other sectors.”
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Document:The EHRC’s report into Labour antisemitism is the real ‘political interference’	blog post	7 November 2020	Jonathan Cook	It is instructive to compare the certainty with which the EHRC treats Councillor Pam Bromley’s ambiguous remarks as irrefutable proof of antisemitism in Labour with its complete disregard for unmistakably antisemitic comments from Boris Johnson, the man actually running the country. That lack of concern is shared, of course, by the establishment media and Jewish leadership organisations.
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Document:This largely pointless EHRC investigation has been welcomed by Labour	Article	28 May 2019	John Spannyard Indaworks	"The upside of all this is that it may well lay to rest the continual Zionist refrain that Labour and Corbyn are an anti-Semitic party. What it is unlikely to do in my view is derail the Corbyn McDonnell project - it's just a bump in that particular road."
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