New Wave of Antisemitic Attacks Reported in London

The onslaught of Jew hatred in London continues apace with multiple reports over the past 48 hours of assaults and graffiti across the city.

In the Stamford Hill neighborhood, a bus stop outside a Jewish girls school was targeted on Wednesday with antisemitic graffiti in which a Star of David was defaced with a large “X.”

In a separate incident in the same neighborhood, an assailant on a bicycle is seen on video knocking the hats off of identifiably Jewish men and reportedly also punching Jews.

London has experienced a record number of such incidents this year, exacerbated by a massive uptick following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel.

According to an Algemeiner review of Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) data, antisemitic offenses in London increased 162 percent in 2023 through November, with 1,442 incidents eclipsing the full-year totals of 550 in 2022 and 845 in 2021. The MPS began issuing public data on the city’s anti-Jewish offenses in 2018.

Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of the city have been targeted disproportionately for being visibly Jewish, as shown in a spate of incidents reported by Shomrim, a Jewish organization that monitors antisemitism and also serves as a neighborhood watch group.

This month alone, an Orthodox Jewish man was assaulted by a man riding a bicycle on the sidewalk, two attackers brutally mauled a Jewish woman, and a group of Jewish children was berated by a woman who screamed “I’ll kill all of you Jews. You are murderers!” A similar incident occurred when a man confronted a Jewish shopper and shouted, “You f—king Jew, I will kill you!”

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