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Gnasher Jew (@GnasherJew) is an anonymous pro-Israel account on X (formerly Twitter), created in March 2017. Its profile describes it as "a digital investigation team who operate under the radar, using OSINT to expose antisemites".[1] The philosopher Chris Friel, a critic of the account, calls it "a hawkish, pro-Israel Twitter account".[2]

Team and trade mark

In October 2018, the Jewish Chronicle described the people behind GnasherJew as “four guys… former Labour party members”, quoting them as saying: “The four of us are monitoring social media accounts virtually every waking hour.” The article did not name them.[3] In May 2021, the newspaper again described the account as run by four anonymous people.[4]

The Intellectual Property Office lists John Arnott as the proprietor of the figurative trade mark GJ, number UK00003437487. Filed on 18 October 2019 and entered in the register on 7 February 2020, it is listed as registered in class 45 for “Political lobbying services;Organisation of political meetings.”[5] In September 2020, The Prole Star identified this as the image used by GnasherJew, while also reporting that the account denied that Arnott operated it.[6]

The pro-Israel blogger David Collier has denied claims that he is behind the account. In January 2019, responding to such a claim, he wrote: “Firstly, I am Gnasher (wrong)”.[7]

Oxford Street Chanukah bus incident

Gnasher Jew was one of the first and most active accounts in the campaign against the BBC's reporting of the Oxford Street Chanukah bus incident of 29 November 2021. Friel argues that "Gnasher was involved from the start".[2]

On 1 December 2021 it shared a Channel 12 interview with one of the passengers: "Here one of the victims of last nights latest crime speaks out."[8] The next morning it posted footage of the group dancing before the attack ("these teens were racially abused with Nazi salutes and spat on").[9]

The BBC reported on 2 December that a slur about Muslims could be heard from inside the bus. Gnasher Jew then contacted the reporter, Harry Farley, and on 3 December wrote:

"There is something in Ivrit "tikra lemisheho." I've told Harry but he is unrepentant and thinks what he hears is English (he's not an Ivrit speaker). He's asked people to complain. So we urge everyone to complain, it's time @bbc stopped lying."[10]

The tweet was posted as a reply to Tal Ofer, a former member of the Board of Deputies, who had tweeted at 08:45 GMT that he had "listened to the video 20 times and heard nothing as such".[11]

That afternoon it posted processed audio:

"We extracted the audio from the video & removed the background noise. What can be clearly heard (2.5 secs in) is "Tikra lemishehu, ze dachuf" (call someone it's urgent). We are wondering why the BBC feels the need to demonize Jews at every turn?"[12]

Twenty minutes later it wrote: "Apparently some of the children used the words "dirty……" which would be reprehensible. But we can only hear Hebrew being spoken."[13] On 4 December it added: "As I mentioned to the journalist the idea that Chabad members would use any kind of slur to anyone is highly suspect."[14] It also published what it said was "a portion of our DMs" with Farley.[15] Friel says Gnasher's enhanced audio was produced "with the help of Digfind" (DigFind).[2]

Ofcom's account of the BBC's internal timeline records that the BBC's Network News Editor had flagged at 4.30pm on 1 December, before any public discussion of the slur, that "he could hear the phrase "dirty Muslims" in the audio recording". By early afternoon on 3 December the BBC "has received a formal complaint suggesting the language being used was Hebrew and not English".[16]

On 4 December the Board of Deputies posted a video demanding that the BBC "correct its report and apologise". The television presenter Rachel Riley replied: "Hats off @GnasherJew".[17] On 30 December, when it published its commissioned audio reports, the Board wrote: "We would like to thank @DigFind_, D3 Forensics, @GhiladZ, @GnasherJew, @JewishChron, @jonnygould, and most important of all, the many victims and witnesses of the attack".[18]

When Ofcom ruled against the BBC on 7 November 2022, Gnasher Jew wrote: "Today, @Ofcom has slammed @bbc for their lies and bias in reporting these children's abuse, after we exposed their lies."[19] Ofcom itself "did not consider it necessary to make a determination on the contents of the audio".[16]

Dissenting listeners

Friel documents about half a dozen listeners who heard "dirty Muslims" in English, several of them pro-Israel or sympathetic to Gnasher. Among them:

  • Emteess, who described herself as "British-Israeli": "A few seconds in you can hear someone say 'dirty Muslim'… but it's there."[20]
  • Chris Goodall: "0:02, male voice: "you dirty Muslims" 0:08, female voice: "we are Jewish" 0:09, male voice: "come back when we're ready"".[21]

Earlier that day, in an exchange with Goodall and others, Gnasher had written of him: "He is a fool, even the police have said this wasn't said."[22] Friel argues that Gnasher's "reaction to dissent… involved bullying and gaslighting".[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ @GnasherJew, profile, X, viewed 1 November 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chris S. Friel, "When Gnasher bit Auntie", self-published paper, Academia.edu, January 2023.
  3. ↑ Rosa Doherty and Daniel Sugarman, Fighting hate is all in a day's work posting for these Twitter warriors, Jewish Chronicle, 4 October 2018, accessed 6 November 2026.
  4. ↑ Nicole Lampert, Gnasher Jew is back on Twitter, Jewish Chronicle, 13 May 2021, accessed 6 November 2026.
  5. ↑ Intellectual Property Office, Trade mark UK00003437487 and marks owned by John Arnott, accessed 6 November 2026.
  6. ↑ The Prole Star, 'One Flew Over The Canary's Nest' – What Gnasher Jew 'Friend' John Arnott Did On His Holidays, 27 September 2020, accessed 6 November 2026.
  7. ↑ David Collier, Shaun Lawson smears Jewish anti-racists and lies about them, 14 January 2019, accessed 6 November 2026.
  8. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 1 December 2021, 19:17 GMT.
  9. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 2 December 2021, 08:07 GMT.
  10. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 3 December 2021, 08:59 GMT.
  11. ↑ Tal Ofer, @TalOfer, 3 December 2021, 08:45 GMT (Wayback Machine capture).
  12. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 3 December 2021, 14:52 GMT.
  13. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 3 December 2021, 15:14 GMT.
  14. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 4 December 2021, 12:12 GMT.
  15. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 4 December 2021, 19:07 GMT.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 Ofcom, Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin, Issue 461, 7 November 2022, Annex 2.
  17. ↑ @RachelRileyRR, X, 4 December 2021.
  18. ↑ @BoardofDeputies, X, 30 December 2021.
  19. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 7 November 2022.
  20. ↑ @emteess, X, 3 December 2021.
  21. ↑ @ChrisGoodall12, X, 13 December 2021, 22:12 GMT.
  22. ↑ @GnasherJew, X, 13 December 2021, 17:41 GMT.
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