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Cornish radio host guilty of inciting racial hatred BY SIMCHA ABIR A Cornish radio host has pleaded guilty to inciting racial hatred on broadcasts at Truro Crown Court. Graham Hart, 69, of Penponds, Camborne, admitted eight counts under the Public Order Act 1986. Campaign Against Antisemitism called on Devon and Cornwall Police to act after Hart, who is also a singer, spread racial hate on a ‘programme in service with intent or likely to stir up racial hatred’. Hart was charged with five counts of using offending words or behaviour in a programme. Comments made in December 2020 led to three further charges from earlier this year. The offences between 2016 and 2020 fall under sections 22(1) and 27(3) of the 1986 Act . Judge HHJ Linford noted the serious nature of the offences. A sentencing hearing will take place on August 6th, pending a psychiatric report. Hart was warned he should anticipate “an immediate sentence of imprisonment”. The maximum sentence for each charge is seven years in prison. Stephen Silverman, CAA Director of Investigations and Enforcement, thanked police
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for their diligence and welcomed the news as it signalled such crimes would not be tolerated. “The offences constitute some of the most extreme hatred towards Jews that we have ever encountered,” he noted. “It is PHOTO: vital that the JewGraham Hart CORNWALLLIVE ish community is protected from this man, and we hope that the sentence will also send a message to like-minded people that hate towards British Jews will not be tolerated.” Hart’s barrister, Mary McCarthy, reportedly told the court her client had been “exhibiting signs of being quite unwell for a number of years”. She added, “He accepts racial hatred was likely to be stirred up but this was effectively him mouthing off rather than setting to bring about any particular outcome.” Hart’s music was reportedly banned by the Cornish Pirates rugby union team in 2019 following accusations of anti-Semitism over Hoax Train lyrics published on YouTube. The club noted at the time of Hart’s ban that the track had not been played.
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BY DAVID SAFFER Israel President Reuven Rivlin and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein have joined the quest for two-year-old Alta Fixsler to be treated in Israel in preference to palliative care. Over 20,000 people signed The Jewish Weekly petition launched last week to allow a leave of appeal to enable Alta, who suffered severe brain injury at birth, to be treated by an Israeli hospital. A High Court judge ruled last week that life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn. But Alta’s family want her to be transferred to Israel hospital care on religious and ethical grounds. With time running out to save Alta, Rivlin appealed to Prince Charles to help Alta’s parents’ request. His letter to the Prince of Wales noted, “Their religious beliefs directly oppose ceasing medical treatment that could extend her life and have made arrangements for her safe transfer and continued treatment in Israel. It would be a tragedy if these parents’ wishes could not be accommodated in a way that respects both the law and their religious beliefs.” Edelstein appealed to Health Secretary Matt Hancock last week on the family’s behalf confirming Israel would treat Alta. According to Israeli law where parents
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