A Jewish paedophile former organiser for controversial British government-funded far-left anti-fascist doxxing group Hope Not Hate has been spared jail for child sex offences against a 13-year-old girl.
Liron Velleman, 31, who was also a Labour councillor for Barnet in London and a senior figure in pro-Israel socialist group the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), faced Southwark Crown Court on Friday where he was given a suspended sentence.
Judge James Lofthouse told the court Velleman’s offences were “plainly over the custodial threshold”, and that prison would be “richly merited”, and said the paedophile leftist was in denial about having a “reckless, vile and frankly deviant interest in children”, Barnet Post reported.
He told Velleman he needed to “address” his paedophilic urges for the sake of his young son, but ultimately took into account the activist’s early guilty plea and engagement with reform programs and therapy, and decided a custodial sentence would hinder the reform process.
Velleman was given an eight-month sentence, suspended for 15 months, and put on the sex offender’s register for 10 years, and walked free from court before having a celebratory drink with his parents at a nearby pub, where he was filmed by a citizen journalist.
Velleman pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of “attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child” and one count of “being an offender 18 or over attempting to cause a child aged 13 to 15 to watch or look at an image of sexual activity”.
His offences are too graphic to describe.
The leftist paedophile, who previously talked about growing up in a Jewish and Zionist household in London and being a victim of anti-Semitism, has been described as an “ally” of London’s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan, and campaigned alongside Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Velleman previously worked as a Political Organiser for Hope Not Hate, and gave evidence in parliament on behalf of the group while pushing for the UK’s censorious Online Safety Act, which was intended to protect children but has instead resulted in mass online censorship.
Hope Not Hate was investigated late last year by the Charity Commission after a Conservative MP accused the antiwhite group of funnelling taxpayer funds given to its charitable trust into its far-left political activism.
“Hope Not Hate Limited is a purely political operation with a reported history of fabricating security threats, spreading disinformation and pushing smear campaigns,” MP for Windsor Jack Rankin wrote in a letter to the Commission that highlighted hundreds of thousands of pounds in government grants and Home Office Counter Extremism Unit funding given to the Hope Not Hate Charitable Trust.
“It seems incompatible with the charitable requirement to further public benefit in a balanced, non-partisan manner.
“This context strongly suggests that Hope Not Hate Charitable Trust does not act for public benefit. In fact, in my view it seems that in many ways the work it funds directly opposes the national interest.”
Last year another Jewish Hope Not Hate operative, Harry Shukman, came under scrutiny for changing his name by deed poll in order to get a new passport that he used to infiltrate right-wing British groups, and then changing it back again.
And in 2024, Hope Not Hate boss Nick Lowles was forced to apologise after spreading a false story about a Muslim woman being attacked with acid during anti-immigration protests following the murders of three British girls by African teenager Axel Rudakubana in Southport.
The suspended sentence comes amid ongoing complaints about the UK’s “two-tier” justice system, which has seen White Britons jailed for social media posts, a nationalist activist given a two-year sentence for stickers, and police making 30 arrests a day for “hate speech”.
Header image: Left, Liron Velleman (Met Police). Right, arriving at court (Tony Martin).
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