More than 30 of Britain’s top music industry moguls have been targeted in a vicious online campaign that falsely brands them ‘supporters of genocide’ in the Middle East, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
The ‘doxxing’ attack is being orchestrated by former UK university professor David Miller, who is a presenter on the Iranian-backed Press TV channel.
It features the names, photos and email addresses of some of pop’s biggest producers, music publishers and lawyers – many of whom are Jewish – accompanied by a string of unsubstantiated and inflammatory allegations.
One producer was branded a ‘dedicated Zionist cancel agent’, while another industry figure was accused of being involved in a ‘Zionist regime front group’.
Last night the Community Security Trust, a charity established to help protect Britain’s Jews, condemned it as a ‘particularly personal and focused attack’.
Dave Rich, its head of policy, accused Mr Miller of targeting Jews ‘every week’ in online attacks that spark ‘appalling social media pile-ons, including anti-Semitic threats and abuse’.
‘For the people who get targeted by him it can be upsetting and alarming,’ he added.
‘We have given a lot of people across the Jewish community advice and support, including at times specific security advice, to mitigate against this.’
Mr Miller’s rant was published on X after the executives were named as supporters of a private email sent to Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis, her husband Nick Dewey and a man thought to be operations director Melvin Benn ahead of this year’s festival.
The message, which was written by a veteran agent and copied to other senior music industry figures, urged the festival to drop Irish rap trio Kneecap over its public support for two proscribed terrorist groups – Hamas and Hezbollah. The email included the names of the 34 executives, whose businesses are linked to a string of global stars.
But its contents later appeared to have been leaked to Kneecap and then appeared more widely on social media.
Glastonbury last night said it ‘categorically’ denies the email was leaked by Ms Eavis or anyone else working for the festival. Mr Miller, a 61-year-old former professor of political sociology at Bristol University, told his 94,400 X followers that if they ‘oppose the genocide’ they might want to write to the executives he identified.
He claimed he did not publish any private information about any of the music executives but the email was marked ‘private and confidential’.
Mr Rich added: ‘When he went after the people who signed the letter to Glastonbury it was a particularly personal and focused attack because he devoted so much social media space to publishing their pictures and names and, for some of them, contact details. ‘Importantly, he’s doing this as a presumably paid employee of the Iranian state through his work for Press TV.’
Earlier this year Mr Miller posted social media videos appearing to show him at the Beirut funerals of Iranian-backed Hezbollah leader
Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s deputy Hashem Safieddine. Both were killed in Israeli air strikes.
Few of the executives named by Mr Miller were prepared to speak openly when approached by The Mail on Sunday.
But one of them, Leo Pearlman, co-founder of production company Fulwell Entertainment, accused Miller of having ‘doxxed’ the signatories to the email.
Writing on LinkedIn he said: ‘The purpose of the leak to Kneecap and Miller was clear: to shame, harass and intimidate. I’ve been saying for 20 months now that it’s on all of us to speak out, to stand up and to refuse to bow to hate.’
In a statement Mr Miller said that ‘accountability and justice are coming for Zionist crimes.
‘Under international law, this also applies to those responsible for incitement to genocide, including those in media, arts and culture. There will be no escape from accountability for Zionists in the music industry for their participation in this genocide.’
