The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has launched a private prosecution against controversial anti-Zionist academic David Miller over allegedly antisemtic posts he made on X.
Miller, formerly a professor at the University of Bristol and now a presenter on Iranian-controlled Press TV, has been vocal about his anti-Israel views, including previously calling for Zionists to be “targeted” across the world.
Announcing its legal action, the CAA alleged that Miller had “used a public communications network to send messages of a menacing character” in violation of the Communications Act 2003.
The allegations are understood to relate to three social media posts apparently made by Miller in recent months.
One, from November 2024, allegedly referred to the antisemitic assaults on Israeli football fans in Amsterdam – dubbed a “modern pogrom” by some Jewish organisations – as “material deZionisation on the streets”.
It reportedly added: “Last night’s response by the brave Muslim communities of Amsterdam was necessary, but extremely measured and not at all proportional to the genocidal violence unleashed by Zionist terrorists on the Levant, on Muslims worldwide, or indeed in the provocations that preceded the measured response. Future incidents will likely involve a more proportional response.”
A second post, from March this year, reportedly read: “Every genuinely anti-Zionist Jew can count on being kept safe by the movement, when the time comes. Every Zionist Jew must be held accountable and de-Zionised.”
And a third, just four days later, said: “Those who are interested in ending this genocide must begin by targeting those responsible near them: the entire Zionist movement globally must live in fear of accountability until it is dismantled and its ideology eradicated.
“And let’s be clear, there are Zionists everywhere. In every town and city. Find out where they are.”
Miller has long faced allegations of antisemitism over his abrasive pro-Palestine advocacy, including claiming that pupils at Jewish schools were being “radicalised by racist ideology”.
In a fiery GB News interview last October, the then-Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg accused Miller of “using [anti-]Zionism as a cover for antisemitism”, something which the professor has denied. However, an employment tribunal ruled that the former lecturer was unfairly dismissed from his role at Bristol as his anti-Zionist opinions, which were found not to be antisemitic, were classified as protected speech.
According to CAA, a criminal summons was granted against Miller by Westminster Magistrates’ Court, with the first hearing set for July 2.
Responding to the announcement on X, Miller appeared to invoke the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel secretly holds undue influence in the UK.
He said: “The CAA is a foreign influence operation which acts on behalf of the State of Israel, a hostile and illegitimate genocidal Jewish supremacist state.
“Its directors, staff and donors should be investigated by the security services under the National Security Act.
“This attempt at a private prosecution is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP), and an act of desperation by the State of Israel in a propaganda war it has already lost.
“The State of Israel, via the CAA, is attempting to buy its way into the criminal justice system to silence critics of Zionism. They will fail.”
CAA is a grassroots organisation set up by British Jews in 2014. It maintains that it does not have formal connections with the State of Israel and is not funded by the Israeli government.
