Following action by Campaign Against Antisemitism, a TikTok user who made videos in which he targeted members of Stamford Hill’s Jewish community has been banned from the app.
The user, who went by the name of @1dailyactive before later changing it to @mractive101, uploaded numerous videos in which he filmed himself harassing identifiable Jews in Stamford Hill.
The TikTok user recorded himself entering synagogues, apparently without the permission or knowledge of the Jewish people inside, and often whilst they were praying.
After being alerted to the user by the Stamford Hill Shomrim, the Jewish volunteer neighbourhood watch patrol, Campaign Against Antisemitism collated evidence which was then sent to TikTok.
In one , the person recording can be seen entering a synagogue whilst saying “let’s see where this takes me,” before walking in on people praying. In the of the video, he is heard interrogating people about Judaism. After disrupting those praying, he agrees to leave before shouting “I will come back, I will come back here.”
In an attempt at entering a different synagogue, he can be circling the outside of the building in order to find a way in. He then stopped a Jewish couple and : “How do you get inside there?” After they left, he approached a Jewish man walking alone and directed his line of questioning at him.
In a follow-up video about the same synagogue, the TikTok user seemingly manages to gain entry to the synagogue. As he walked past the gates, he immediately approached a Jewish man and said: “Can I learn about you lot here?” As the Jewish man tried to get away from the interaction, the TikTok user persisted in following.
The video then cut to inside the synagogue, with the user shouting and again disrupting people praying. He proceeded to embark on a long conversation with a Jewish person who requested he leave.
Another video shows the TikTok user driving and playing loud music outside of a building whilst he yells at two Jewish men: “Do you know this song?”
On at least two occasions, he uploaded videos denigrating Jewish drivers. One video saw him utlise TikTok’s text-to-speech feature so that the phrase “Jews can’t drive to save their lives” was spoken over footage of a Jewish person driving. In another video, viewers hear the person recording refer to the driver in front of him as a “dumb f***ing Jew”.
A in which the TikTok user enters a mosque, apparently in order to learn more about Islam, devolved into him speaking disparagingly about Jewish people. He can be heard telling someone: “I watched something on YouTube a little while ago, a documentary…within their religion, their belief is that other people, non-Jewish, they’re like slaves to them…like we are nothing, they’re superior than everyone else.”
In a voiceover the user recorded afterward and later inserted into the video, he said: “That came out of a Jew’s mouth.”
We are grateful to TikTok for acting so promptly after we reached out to them.
