Report anti-Semitism to police, Sadiq Khan urges
By Becky Morton
The mayor of London has urged people to report anti-Semitism to the police, after four men were arrested in connection with a video appearing to show racist abuse.
Sadiq Khan said any reports of alleged hate crimes would be taken seriously.
He said there would be high-visibility police patrols in London following the incident on Sunday.
A video posted on social media appeared to show a man shouting anti-Semitic abuse from a car in north London.
It comes amid rising tension between Israel and Palestinians in the Middle East. Israel has conducted dozens of air strikes on the Gaza Strip, after Palestinian militants fired barrages of rockets at southern Israeli cities.
May 17, 2021 at 4:05 pm
As Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in Britain, I was proud to work with our partners to organise the estimated 150,000-strong march from London s Marble Arch to the Israeli Embassy in Kensington on Saturday. Our partners were the Palestinian Forum in Britain, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition, CND, and the Muslim Association of Britain.
Speech after speech expressed disgust at Israel s deadly bombardment of Gaza following attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah of its Palestinian residents and the unspeakable violence meted out to peaceful worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque. There was also unanimous support for the Palestinians who were united in historic Palestine as never before. Israeli apartheid, settler colonialism, racism, and occupation affect all of the areas of Palestine under occupation. No location is spared Zionist aggression and oppression, including those Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship because they stayed on
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British police arrested four people over videos shared on social media in which anti-Semitic and misogynist language can be heard being shouted during a pro-Palestinian protest.
The footage shows a convoy of cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through a part of north London with a large Jewish population.
At one point a man’s voice can be heard through a loudspeaker shouting profanities and saying: “Rape their daughters.”
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of the UK capital, said extra officers would be on hand to “reassure Londoners, particularly those from Jewish communities”, who were worried about hate crime.
“Unfortunately, we’ve seen it in recent years, whenever there is tension in the Middle East and violence, it can spill over into our city,” Mr Khan told ITV.