Gideon Falter doesn’t appear to have had a good day.

As Skwawkbox reported earlier, ‘Campaign against Antisemitism’ (CAA) chief executive Falter’s claim that he had been prevented by police from crossing a road after just happening to ‘come across’ a pro-Palestine march looks to have fallen apart after a huge volume of eyewitness, photographic and video evidence emerged challenging the veracity of the claim. Falter appears to have fallen apart too in at least one interview.

Under relatively mild challenge from Sky News’s Kay Burley – and confronted by some facts from Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Ben Jamal – Falter flapped and then said he didn’t want to discuss the issue with Jamal any further. Burley, to her credit, cut him off when he tried to complete his propaganda without being scrutinised or challenged:

Sky News subsequently deleted its earlier video of Falter’s claims – whether in reaction to his performance in the Burley interview is not known.

Falter’s CAA group has been shown to have taken large amounts of funding from a ‘quasi-governmental’ Israeli organisation and featured prominently in the campaign to take down then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Falter himself has been shown to have made false claims of antisemitic speech on at least one occasion – leading to the prosecution, conviction and unanimous acquittal on appeal of a Foreign Office official. His claim about Saturday’s events fuelled calls for the banning of pro-Palestinian marches and the removal of Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley – who just happens to have previously refused the demands of right-wing, pro-Israel campaigners and politicians for the marches to be banned.

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