Campaign Results

Hertfordshire: Extremist Children's Camp Cancelled (August 2025)

An extremist children's camp with ideological links to Iran was scheduled to take place in Hertfordshire in August 2025. The organisation behind the camp, Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission, has a documented record of disseminating antisemitic material.

Official promotional materials for the camp glorified martyrdom and featured ideological content from Iran's Supreme Leader — raising grave concerns about child safeguarding, radicalisation, and extremist indoctrination. Despite the seriousness of these risks, Hertfordshire County Council initially took no action to oppose or investigate the event.

Our intervention

We launched an urgent, large-scale campaign targeting councillors, safeguarding teams, and Prevent — the UK's counter-terrorism agency. Thousands of AOA members submitted formal complaints, each clearly outlining the extremist nature of the camp and the safeguarding risks involved. The volume, consistency, and factual strength of these submissions made it impossible for the council to ignore the threat.

Results

• Hertfordshire County Council opened an immediate safeguarding investigation
• The case was formally referred to Prevent
• We uncovered political resistance within the council, with Liberal Democrat councillors blocking cancellation
• A follow-up pressure campaign focused directly on the Lib Dem group broke the deadlock
• Within 24 hours of this targeted action, the camp was cancelled
• Council officials explicitly cited the "huge volume of emails" they received as decisive
• The cancellation was reported nationally in the Daily Mail

Southend & Westcliff: Police Failures and Protest Restrictions (April–August 2025)

In April 2025, Essex Police permitted a large anti-Israel protest to take place in Southend on a Saturday that coincided with Pesach, one of the most significant dates in the Jewish calendar.

The march passed directly by several synagogues. Protesters shouted racist and anti-Jewish abuse, yet police officers failed to intervene or enforce public order. No effective action was taken to protect local Jewish residents. The intimidation was so severe that many members of the Jewish community felt unsafe leaving their homes. A significant number chose not to attend synagogue that day, effectively driven indoors through fear. This represented a serious failure of policing, safeguarding, and equal protection under the law.

Our intervention

We formally challenged Essex Police, setting out in detail why their actions constituted a clear failure to protect a minority community and uphold public order. We escalated the issue directly to police leadership and also contacted the leaders of every major political party, demanding accountability and immediate corrective action.

Results

• Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch intervened personally, describing Essex Police's conduct as deeply troubling. She confirmed to us that she was urgently contacting the Chief Constable to demand answers as to why police stood by while Jewish residents were subjected to racist abuse and intimidation during a major religious festival.
• When in August a second anti-Israel protest was planned for the same area, we formally reminded Essex Police of their previous failures and the consequences of inaction. We also wrote again to the area's MPs and got them to take up our concerns with the police.
• In direct response, police imposed new public-order conditions, including a total ban on assembly in Westcliff
• Facing these restrictions, protest organisers cancelled the second march entirely

Dr Ellen Kriesels – Whittington Hospital

Dr Ellen Kriesels (a Consultant Developmental Paediatrician working in an area with a lot of Jewish residents) repeatedly posted extreme and openly antisemitic content on X. While these posts attracted widespread public condemnation online, no effective action was taken by her employer or professional regulators. Our campaign directly changed that situation.

We coordinated and submitted over 1,000 formal complaints to the Whittington Hospital and the General Medical Council (GMC), and also formally wrote to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to ensure the issue was escalated at the highest level. This generated an unprecedented volume of public and regulatory pressure.

In its report, the MPTS (Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service) referenced our complaints: "The Trust received over 1,500 emails to our communications team, PALS, and the CEO/Chair alleging antisemitic and/or racist actions by Dr Kriesels…"

Results

• Immediately following the campaign, Whittington Hospital confirmed that Dr Kriesels had been suspended from her role and had been referred to the police
• Both the GMC and Dr Kriesels herself (on social media) publicly referenced the extraordinary number of complaints received, underlining the decisive role played by public action
• Suspended from clinical duties
• Under formal investigation by the GMC

Dr Rameh Aladwan

Dr Rameh Aladwan repeatedly posted antisemitic material on social media and escalated this conduct by speaking at an anti-Israel rally in Leeds, where she delivered a public tirade targeting the Jewish community. Despite the seriousness and visibility of this behaviour, no meaningful action was initially taken. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) concluded that Dr Aladwan was fit to practise, allowing her to remain in public service.

We launched a large campaign, mobilising thousands of formal complaints to the police, the General Medical Council (GMC), and directly to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting. This sustained intervention created overwhelming regulatory, legal, and political pressure that could not be ignored.

Results

• Dr Aladwan was arrested
• Referred for a second time to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
• Suspended from medical practice for 15 months
• The GMC explicitly cited the volume and seriousness of public complaints as a basis for taking action

The Times – Giles Coren

Giles Coren published an article in The Times ridiculing those raising concerns about the sharp rise in antisemitism in Britain. The piece dismissed both CST statistics and the actual, often alarming experiences of British Jews, prompting shock and anger from Jewish and non-Jewish readers alike. Our response was immediate and forceful.

We coordinated and submitted an impassioned, high-volume wave of complaints and emails to The Times, challenging the article's inaccuracies, tone, and failure to engage with credible evidence. The scale and intensity of this intervention was impossible to ignore.

Results

• The editor of The Times personally telephoned us — an exceptional step that underscored the seriousness with which our complaints were taken
• An entire page of the newspaper was devoted the following day to publishing our responses, giving voice to those Coren had sought to dismiss and correcting the public record

Dawn French

Dawn French posted an extraordinarily vile and dehumanising diatribe on X in which she mocked Israeli hostages who were still being held by Hamas. The post trivialised human suffering and crossed a clear moral line, prompting near-universal condemnation across the platform. Despite this backlash, French pointedly refused to delete the post, allowing it to remain online for hours while outrage continued to mount. Public criticism alone failed to move her.

Our intervention was decisive. We organised and coordinated over 1,000 formal complaints directly to French's agents, making clear the seriousness of the offence and the reputational consequences of allowing the content to stand. Only hours after our complaints were submitted, and after sustained pressure on her professional representatives, the post was finally removed.

Results

• The offensive content was deleted within 12 hours of our intervention
• Dawn French issued a public apology

LNER

A Leeds-based Jewish group, Leeds Leads Against Antisemitism (LLAA), turned to us for help after members were subjected to racist abuse by an LNER employee during a peaceful vigil. The employee screamed antisemitic slurs at two Jewish participants. Despite LLAA repeatedly publicising the incident on X, LNER failed to respond at all.

Within two hours, we coordinated and sent over 100 targeted emails to LNER CEOs, escalating the issue rapidly and formally. The effect was dramatic. Within 24 hours, LNER contacted LLAA directly.

Results

• Formal apology
• Disciplinary action — the employee was dismissed
• Introduction of formal antisemitism training for staff

Toyota UK

A Toyota employee repeatedly targeted a Jewish journalist (Raffi Berg). Toyota initially refused to act and flatly refused to even disclose to Mr Berg whether any action was being taken.

After our escalation campaign — which included both emails and also a campaign on X — Toyota quickly contacted Mr Berg and confirmed that Toyota had parted company with the racist employee. Mr Berg messaged a member of our group with whom he's in touch and acknowledged that it was our "public pressure" that pushed Toyota to act and to contact him.

Removing inflammatory displays from civic and commercial spaces

Our campaigns have led to the removal of highly politicised and inflammatory public displays from prominent civic and commercial spaces across the UK — reversing situations where such displays had been allowed to persist unchallenged.

• Wandsworth — An anti-Israel display prominently installed inside a community library was removed following our intervention, restoring the neutrality expected of a public institution.
• Kensington & Chelsea — A restaurant on Portobello Road was required by the council to remove multiple large Palestine flags after sustained pressure from us, ending the overt politicisation of a busy public thoroughfare.
• Edinburgh — Hundreds of combined Saltire/Palestine flags were taken down from public spaces after our coordinated complaints.
• Glasgow — Similar mass displays were removed, reversing a pattern of unchecked politicisation.

Crucially, both Edinburgh and Glasgow councils explicitly cited the volume of our emails as a key factor in their decisions — a clear acknowledgement that organised public pressure directly drove official action.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

At its 2025 national conference, a guest speaker used her platform to make antisemitic slurs, accusing Jews of "weaponising the Holocaust".

Our intervention

• Formal complaints and escalations
• Direct correspondence with senior leadership; the College President

Results

• Written response from the President of the College
• Commitment to antisemitism-specific professional training
• Escalation to the Charity Commission — by us — due to transparency concerns

Cancelled appearances and tours

• Yorkshire Drummers for Palestine — Appearances cancelled; National Lottery Community Fund confirmed corrective action following one of our campaigns.
• Tuaha Ibn Jalil — UK tour cancelled after Home Office refusal following nearly 1,000 complaints.