A Jewish person was on Oxford Street when the occupant of a passing van shouted, “you f***ing Jew, I will kill you whole”. An Orthodox Jewish man on a London bus was approached by a man who hit him in the face and tried to take his religious hat.
As night follows day, when conflict sparks in the Middle East, no matter whether the dead are Israeli or Palestinian, Jews in Britain face threats, abuse and physical violence. In the four days between October 7-10, anti-Semitic incidents in the UK rose by more than 300 per cent compared with the same period in 2022, according to the Community Security Trust. More than half occurred in London.
