organise a mass protest in Stamford Hill<\/a>, north London, to rally \u201cagainst the complete Jewification of the borough\u201d, and later in the year tried to organise another in Golders Green, an area of the city with a large Jewish population.<\/p>\nHe promoted the latter with a cartoon image of Hitler and wrote that the event would be \u201can absolute gas\u201d. He was sentenced to three years and four months in jail for inciting hatred against Jews.<\/p>\n
Later, in 2016, he was found guilty of racially aggravated harassment for abuse directed at the then Labour MP Luciana Berger, who is Jewish, which included posting messages to his blog calling Berger \u201ca rodent\u201d, \u201cevil money-grabber\u201d and \u201ca dominatrix\u201d, and uploading an image of a rat with Berger\u2019s face superimposed over it. He was jailed for another two years, which was added to his existing sentence.<\/p>\n
Bonehill-Paine said on Wednesday he was \u201cextremely sorry for the pain and distress\u201d he had caused Berger, and he hoped she could forgive him for his past actions, but had not reached out to her directly as he did not \u201cwant to alarm or distress her, even after a decade has passed\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Crewkerne Gazette\u2019s work has been lauded by publications such as the Sun, which featured a video created by the account showing Rayner rapping to a grime beat during her tax scandal.<\/p>\n
The Times called him the \u201cBanksy of politics\u201d and GB News interviewed Bonehill-Paine, who went by the online alias of Crewkerne Man, on air three days before his identity and past were uncovered.<\/p>\n
The account\u2019s work has also been highlighted by politicians including Jacob Rees-Mogg, who shared a video from it on X, and Adam Dance, the Liberal Democrat MP for Yeovil, where Crewkerne is based. Dance also said on an episode of BBC Sunday Politics West that Bonehill-Paine\u2019s work was a positive example of engaging audiences with politics.<\/p>\n
When asked about Bonehill-Paine\u2019s identity, Dance said he was not aware of who was behind the Crewkerne Gazette account at the time of his comments, which were \u201cabout the transparent use of AI in politics, not about endorsing any individual. I absolutely condemn antisemitism and harassment in all its forms, and I do not support the person now revealed to be behind that account.\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a YouTube video Bonehill-Paine posted on Tuesday he expressed regret for his past comments towards the Jewish community.. He said: \u201cI felt very angry at how I had treated the Jewish community in this country. I wanted to do something to rectify it, so I began working in counter-extremism education.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI went across the country to colleges, schools, universities, working with the probation service, the police service, to try to help prevent other people from following in my footsteps.\u201d<\/p>\n
He later told Channel 4 News: \u201cWhat I am going to do is to continue doing what I\u2019ve done for the last five years, six years, which is counter-extremism work, working to prevent people following in my footsteps, hopefully stopping people from making the same mistakes that I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The person behind an anonymous social media account that posts AI videos of UK politicians has been identified…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-420594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}