Sky accused of vile attack on anti-Zionist Jews

Sky News has run a frankly deranged — and antisemitic — article that attempts to demonise Brighton’s anti-genocide activists. To the educated eye, it reads like an extract from an Israel lobby playbook. This should perhaps not surprise. Antisemitism is rife in the British media — just not in the way audiences are routinely told to expect.

The article features a seven-minute video that Sky also shared on its social media. The video barely bothers even to ‘both-sides’ the issue. It gives no more than a cursory nod to the idea that activists asking Brighton households to boycott Israeli products might not be antisemitic. Then it goes on to showcase, at length, the ‘fears’ — its interviewees seem anything but afraid, of course — of ‘the Jewish community’ at these supposedly terrifying young people and their clipboards:

Zionism is antisemitism?

And it is absolutely shameless about pushing the claims of a string of Israel advocates that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. This is widely pushed in and by ‘mainstream’ media. It is also a fundamentally antisemitic claim: it posits that being Jewish automatically means supporting the horrific crimes of a racist, apartheid colony. It is also fundamentally dishonest: Jews who oppose Israel’s crimes are front and centre of anti-genocide and anti-Zionist protests. So much so that the ‘mainstream’ media airbrush them out as their presence undermines the proposition that all Jews support Israel and therefore opposing Israel is antisemitic.

Which is exactly the claim that Sky is amplifying, of course. To do so, it showcases a string of some of British Zionism’s most notorious.

Fiona Sharpe, for example. Sharpe is given ample space to claim, without challenge, that many Jews are afraid to wear their ‘star of David’ and that antisemitism is everywhere:

She says: “I think there is an underlying feeling that this country and this city [Brighton] is dealing with an underlying sense of antisemitism and mistrust unlike anything I have ever experienced.

“I think increasingly we see Jewish communities and individual Jews almost forced to take what I call purity pledges – to say ‘yes I’m Jewish, but I don’t support the state of Israel, the situation in Gaza or whatever’.

“I’m a British Jew. I don’t need to justify my existence and my place in my city to anybody.”

‘No part of society not scarred by antisemitism’

Fiona says she feels antisemitism is cutting through “all segments” and “all classes” of British society.

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She says: “There is no part of British society that is not marred and scarred by antisemitism.”

‘Antisemitism’ — but not really

Antisemitism in the UK has been directly equated with opposition to Israel’s genocide in the mainstream media — never called that in the statistics, of course. The latest ‘antisemitism’ statistics page of Israel-funded lobby group ‘Community Security Trust’ (CST) mentions Israel no fewer than 130 times. The page admits that more than half of the incidents it counts as antisemitic are in fact to do with Israel.

It also inadvertently makes clear that many ‘antisemitic’ incidents are directly addressing the political ideology of Zionism — a racist belief that land, that has people of multiple different religions living on, belongs only to Jews. This in turn makes way for apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide. For example, an image of an ‘antisemitic’ incident shows graffiti on a toilet door stating that:

Zionists are child killers.

The text does not say “Jews are child killers”. If it did, it would be antisemitic and a lie. So many Jews are horrified by Israel’s crimes and so many oppose them. But Zionists in Israel have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children since October 2023 and are still bombing and starving them. Zionists outside Israel support the slaughter and demand silence on Israel’s crimes.

Let’s get a couple of things straight:

Most Zionists are not Jews. Many Jews are not Zionists. Not just that, many Zionists are antisemitic.

Judaism is around 3500-4000 years old. Zionism is roughly 130 years old. The state of Israel is 78.

These are facts. Facts cannot be antisemitic.

Of course, these factual distinctions don’t fit into the establishment narrative, so the ‘MSM’ ignore them. So does Sky’s article.

Vexatious and failed

Sky also fails to mention that Fiona Sharpe was in the news recently, though nowhere near as widely as she should. Humiliatingly and damningly so — for her and for the Israel lobby. Sharpe was at the centre of a lobby attempt to criminalise Brighton author Greg Hadfield that crashed and burned in January 2026. Hadfield was accused of malicious communications after Sharpe complained that he had posted a screenshot of a tweet that exposed local Zionist and alleged paedophile Ivor Caplin. After his acquittal, Hadfield told Skwawkbox that his acquittal was:

a victory for all journalists and everyone who believes in free speech. It is a defeat for Zionist extremists like Fiona Sharpe, who has embedded herself in the criminal justice system and the local media in Brighton and Hove. It is a defeat for Peter Kyle and the Labour Party who knew for a long time about Ivor Caplin’s ‘likes’ and likes. They said nothing and did nothing. Neither before nor after Caplin was arrested for allegedly sexually communicating with a child.

The Brighton Israel lobby is no stranger to malicious prosecutions. Heidi Bachram, another Brighton Zionist — one of the non-Jewish ones — teamed up with another lobby group, the ‘CAA’, to try to prosecute comedian Reginald D Hunter. Sharpe and CAA accused Hunter of antisemitic abuse — an attempt to ruin him. It didn’t go well for the lobbyists.

The judge in the case threw it out as malicious and vexatious, after CAA deliberately withheld evidence that exonerated Hunter, including lengthy tirades Bachram poured on her victims. So incensed was the judge at the blatantly political lawfare attempt that he didn’t just throw the case out. He ordered that in any future such cases, CAA must attach a copy of his judgment to their submissions to ensure that the court and everyone involved knows how dishonestly it acted.

In his withering remarks, judge Michael Snow said that:

[CAA] did not reveal the extent of her tweets directed against Reginald Hunter in the period immediately preceding the complaints (her tweets were sent between 15 August and 11 September 2024).

The summary misled me into believing that his comments were addressed to her involvement with the Jewish faith as opposed to his response to attempts that were being made to have him ‘cancelled’…

…Ruling

20. I am quite satisfied that the failure to disclose the matters record at paragraphs 19a) to p) above were intentional. If I had been aware of those matters, I would have refused to issue a summons as I would have found the application to be vexatious.
21 . The CAA have demonstrated by the misleading and partial way in which it summarised its’ application and its’ wilful, repealed, failure to meet its’ disclosure obligations, that its’ true and sole motive in seeking to prosecute RH is to have him cancelled. I have no doubt that the prosecution is abusive…
22…However, my view of the conduct of the CAA is consistent with them as an organisation which is not “playing it straight but is seeking to use the criminal justice system, in this case for improper reasons.
23. I direct that a copy of this judgement must be disclosed by the CAA and attached by it, in all future applications.
24. I quash the summons.

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‘I love you IDF guys’

Unsurprisingly, Sky didn’t mention any of this either, despite its relevance and locality to its topic. Nor did it mention that Vicky Bhogal, its first interviewee, has donated to a crowdfunder for the genocidal occupation military because, in her own words:

I love you guys and what you’re doing.

Watermelon smugger

Sky also interviewed Josh Breslaw, drummer with British-Israeli band Oi Va Voi. Breslaw was allowed to drone about the ‘antisemitic’ injustice of having a gig cancelled in 2025, supposedly because the band wouldn’t sign a promise not to be ‘political’.

Breslaw omitted to mention — and Sky didn’t bother to point out — that the Oi Va Voi gig was cancelled because its Israeli lead singer Zohara Niddam had just released a solo album, in the middle of the Gaza genocide, whose cover art showed a naked Niddam taking watermelons away from a watermelon field in a wheelbarrow:

The pearl-clutching, Israel-fanatic and deeply-dishonest Jewish Chronicle demanded to know:

If a non-Israeli artist featured watermelons on an album artwork, would their gig be banned?

Well, that would depend whether the non-Israeli artist’s nation had slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people identified with watermelons as a symbol of their resistance and self-determination, wouldn’t it.

Watermelons have become internationally recognised during the genocide as a national symbol of Palestine and Palestinian identity. During the genocide, Israel has poisoned or destroyed more than 98% of Gaza’s agricultural land. Outraged humanitarians had demanded that the Bristol venue cancel the event. It later caved to the faux outrage of the Israel lobby and apologised.

And of course, it didn’t take long before the wider ethno-supremacist mouthpieces got their own shots in at the Brighton humanitarians. Like the unhinged Murdoch hack Melanie Phillips. Phillips has gone on record to say that anti-Zionist Jews are a threat to the Jewish people. So it’s no surprise she had to stick her oar in, again amplifying the antisemitic proposition that Jewish people are inseparable from her racist political ideology:

Every. Damned. Time.

Sky barely bothered to even gesture at veiling its hit-piece as anything else. The UK ‘mainstream’ media rely on their viewers being too uninformed to spot their lies and misdirections and too busy to investigate.

But scratch the surface and the lies, misdirections and omissions quickly come tumbling out. Especially when the subject is anything to do with the genocidal colony or those who resist it.

Every. Damned. Time.

Featured image via the Canary