LONDON, ENGLAND – 17 MAY: A man and child wait at a bus stop in Earls Court within a temporary expanded pavement designed to help with social distancing in public on May 17, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The prime minister announced the general contours of a phased exit from the current lockdown, adopted nearly two months ago in an effort curb the spread of Covid-19. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) An unidentified male reportedly threatened to attack a Jewish man on a London bus on the afternoon of June 16.
The Jewish Chronicle reported that the Shomrim Stamford Hill, a volunteer neighborhood watch group in northern London, tweeted that on the upper deck of the bus, a male shouted at a Jewish man, “Jews are all spies, [I] will beat you up, what’s wrong with all you lot.” The man then issued a middle finger to the Jewish man.
#Hate Crime #AntiSemitism
Stamford Hill #N16 Sun 1:30pm
Upper deck of a 254 bus, Male shouted at a visibly jewish male "Jews are all spies, will beat you up, what's wrong with all you lot" he also showed the victim the middle finger, @MPSRTPC
cad 1317 14/06/2020 pic.twitter.com/b51B4aSSIJ— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) June 15, 2020
The Hackney police tweeted that the reported incident was unacceptable and “will not be tolerated.”
Shocking behaviour – it’s NOT acceptable and won’t be tolerated. https://t.co/GUfMGkjKrd
— Hackney Police (@MPSHackney) June 15, 2020
The June 16 incident is part of a spate of recent anti-Semitic incidents in London. On June 12, a man is suspected of stabbing Chasidic Rabbi Alter Yaakov Schlesinger multiple times; Schlesinger is reportedly in stable condition. The suspect, later identified as Stanley Frances, was arrested on June 15.
Additionally, on June 14 two men and a woman reportedly issued Nazi salutes in public in the Hendon area of London.
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