A former organiser for controversial British government-funded anti-fascist and anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate has admitted to child sex offences against a 13-year-old girl.
Liron Woodcock-Velleman, 30, pleaded guilty in Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on Friday 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”.
The father-of-one, who recently resigned as Labour councillor for Barnet in London and is a senior figure in pro-Israel socialist group the Jewish Labour Movement (JLM), was released on bail ahead of sentencing on February 10, GB News reported.
The court heard Woodcock-Velleman sent naked photos of himself to his teenage victim, asked “are you a virgin” and whether she was “home alone”, and demanded explicit photographs between December 3 and December 10 last year, and was caught in a police sting operation.
His defence lawyer Ali Hussain told the court his client was a “person of good character”, currently unemployed and a “family man” who was taking medication for depression.
“There is a great deal about his background which will assist the court to see how exactly he came to find himself in this position,” he said.
The leftist paedophile, who has 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.
Woodcock-Velleman previously worked as a Political Organiser for Hope Not Hate, which 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 teenafer Axel Rudakubana in Southport.
Header image: Liron Woodcock-Velleman (YouTube).
