KB-2023-003636 - [2025] EWHC 2043 (KB)

On 22 May 2021, the claimant went to Golders Green with Ali Dawah and two camera operators. Mr Dawah subsequently uploaded a video to his YouTube channel, entitled “Muslims confront radical Israelis”. The video shows the claimant and Mr Dawah standing on a pavement. There are Jewish children a short distance away. The claimant and Mr Dawah are standing next to a van. On the side of the van is a large video screen which displays a series of images (approximately six) in a loop. Some of the pictures appear to show dead children in Gaza. One apparently shows Jewish prisoners in a second world war German concentration camp with the words “Did we not learn from the Holocaust?”. The claimant and Mr Dawah seek to engage passersby in conversation about Israel. Within a short period of time, police officers arrive. A passerby, walking with children, says “you can’t ask me any questions”. Mr Dawah follows the group, asking them questions about whether they support Israel. Other passersby cross the road, apparently to avoid the claimant and Mr Dawah. The claimant and Mr Dawah say they only wish to engage in discussion and criticise their disinclination to engage. The claimant asks, “do you condemn the killing of children” and then, when there is no response, says “the silence is deafening”. One man appears to say, “they are killing themselves” and (later) “Hamas hides behind the children”. The claimant makes much of the former remark and treats it as if the man had said “the children are killing themselves” and as if that had been intended to be taken literally.

The video also shows a quite separate event during which the claimant and Mr Dawah engage a Jewish man in apparently good-natured conversation at Speakers’ Corner.