A new wave of anti-Semitic hate crimes has hit Jewish Londoners in the last month, according to a slew of reports by neighborhood watch group Shomrim Stamford Hill.
Algemeiner Since April, the group has reported on a stranger’s approaching a Jewish woman and shouting “One day I will kill all you Jews,” the defacement of a Jewish family’s door and theft of their mezuzah, and an incident in which a Jewish mother and her infant were verbally abused and spit on, leaving the mother “traumatized and seeking support.”
A man verbally abused a 13 year old Jewish girl on a Transport for London (TFL) bus, Shomrim Stamford Hill, a local Jewish community watch group, reported on Tuesday.
“I’m Adolf Hitler and I will kill the Jews,” the man, who has not yet been identified, said while using an umbrella, pointed in the girl’s direction, to pantomime shooting a gun.
In two recent incidents over the past week, Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) arrested a man for standing on the side of Ravensdale Road and shouting antisemitic epithets at Jewish community members passing through the area, and on Monday officers apprehended a woman who was “unleashing a torrent of racist slurs” on patrons of a Park Avenue Hotel, which is Jewish-owned, according to Shomrim Stamford Hill.
🚨Shocking Hate Crime incident at Park Avenue Hotel, Clapton Common E5.
A despicable individual targeted a Jewish-owned hotel, unleashing a torrent of racist slurs and threats against a Jewish person.
Grateful to @MPShackney for their swift response and apprehension of the… pic.twitter.com/tVHKWZ3PuF
— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) May 8, 2023
162 antisemitic hate crimes have occurred in London so far in 2023, according to data reported by MPS. Members of the city’s Orthodox Jewish community, one of the largest in Europe, were victims in a substantial portion of the 3,280 antisemitic hate crimes that MPS has recorded since 2018. 853 were tallied in 2021 alone.
Earlier this year, in January, a man entered a Jewish bakery and attempted to assault a Jewish woman after asking, “Are you Jewish?” That same month, a Jewish man and his infant son were assaulted while taking a walk in the Stamford Hill, a neighborhood of North London where large concentrations of Orthodox Jews live. The father was slashed. Later, a woman in Stamford Hill was stalked and assaulted by an unknown perpetrator.
In March, Shomrim Stamford Hill reported that someone knocked a 16 year old Jewish boy’s hat off his head “in a completely unprovoked incident” near Stoke Newington Railway Station, and that a tall man wearing an orange hoodie intentionally bumped into an Orthodox man while passing him on the street. Another man, whom MPS arrested and charged with committing a hate crime, shouted “Heil Hitler, I love Hitler” at Jewish worshipers leaving synagogue on Purim. He was, Shomrim said, armed with a knife.
On May 3, StandWithUs, an educational nonprofit, shared footage of two men harassing a group of Jewish children near a day school in north London. “Drove past the Zionist school on full blast,” a caption to the video reads, as they loudly play an Arabic song with lyrics extolling Hezbollah: “We’re Hizbullahi [members of Hezbollah] and I bear witness.”The men, whose identities remain unknown, laughed at the children, many of whom were wearing a kippah and preparing the cross the intersection they were passing through.
Jewish pedestrian🚶♂️from Synagogue on Sabbath approached by an extremely aggressive Male swinging a large chain demanding that the Jewish victim walk with him The aggression shown was so extreme – victim forced to follow the abductor@MPSHackney 6554 13/12 pic.twitter.com/2Xia7WtMni
— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) December 19, 2022
Daniel Erbstoesser says
IN germany that is different says mrs. knobloch and she is the Israel head here in germany and she says that the bad AFD is the one doing all of the bad antisemite things here in germany and not the muslim. Too bad that the picture in the paper allways shows a bearded foreighner but no it was the german nazi and germany is full then as the greens and left says all germans are born as nazis so all is good. The german people know differently but thats nazi and they are not heard. That is why the hour of power is comming to us in order to help us save what is left of our countries and cultur.
Az gal says
We!re supposed to pretend it isn’t the Muslums doing this, but the “far right”.
Jonathon Roe says
The Muslim hatred for mankind in general is already gnawing at everyone. Not just Jewish people.
BareNakedIslam says
Can’t help but think of that old saying: First they came for the Jews (etc) and I did nothing….
Daniel Erbstoesser says
How right you are and i have heard this saying since i was born and i will not be one of those waiting and yes first they take alittle or make one little law and that is why i have grounded the few and that 2016 and we are growing and yes Bonni we fight for our right to own our counties then the gov will not defend us no the gov is importing this shit to us and its also the gov that holds us down and it will even imprison us for saying the truth. No Bonni i will not be one of those.
BareNakedIslam says
We need millions more like you.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Bonni the millions like me are all around you then my way of life and thinking is 100% American. I know nothing else then i grew up in your grand nation. This german shit is really tearing me up and i cant understand how the german keeps running back to the one who slappes them in the face. The millions that you search for are all around you and when the time comes the America will stand just as it has stood in the past. I have no fear for America but for my country i do because 94% want to run when the shit hits the fan. You see fatherland and proud to be there is nazi here and you aint even allowed to say german folk without being a nazi so what are they supposed to fight for. our schools teach our children that the german is all the evil in the world and germany is shit, what do you expect from that.