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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar and Jessica Elgot

Home Office considered antisemitism campaigner for counter-extremism unit

Gideon Falter
Gideon Falter is the chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

The Home Office considered appointing campaigner against antisemitism Gideon Falter as an adviser to its counter extremism unit but was warned against the appointment by the government’s antisemitism tsar.

The Guardian understands there were strong objections to Falter being offered the part-time civil service role advising the Commission for Countering Extremism (CCE) in 2022 and that John Mann told the then home secretary Suella Braverman he would quit if Falter was offered the post.

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