British Jewish teenagers have been the latest target in a wave of anti-Semitic attacks across Western Europe. On Thursday, two buses carrying students from a London Jewish school were attacked at a bus stop by a group of teenagers from a nearby school who brandished large stones, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
Four teenagers boarded one of the double-decker buses and went to the second floor, where they began abusing students and giving them the middle finger. One 12-year-old student, who professed to be “horrified” by the attack, said the teens “sweared at us, saying, 'Fuck, Israel, no one likes you. Fuck you, you asshole.' “There was,” he described. They were having fun filming us. Although there were many people on the street, no one tried to stop them. ” told the Jewish Chronicle.
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Four teenagers got off the bus and began throwing heavy stones at it. An 11-year-old student said, “We don't know where he got the stone. He might have put it in his bag. None of us knew what to do with it.'' She reported that some students ran from the bus, but she continued on the bus. “They were taunting us and filming us,” she explained. “I don't know what they were trying to do with that video or why they did it.”
“This incident did not occur in an isolated manner,” a spokesperson for the British organization Campaign Against Anti-Semitism told Fox News Digital. “Over the past year, we have repeatedly warned of the dangerous consequences of letting Jewish hatred go unchecked.”
A night view of Big Ben, a symbol of Britain and a tourist attraction. September 2024, London, England, UK landmark (Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Citing the Campaign Against Antisemitism's findings that “69% of British Jews are less likely to show visible signs of Judaism in public,” a spokesperson said: “The simple truth is that It means our streets are no longer safe for British Jews and their children.” …Now is the time for arrests, and those who break the law must be punished. ”
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Anti-Semitism in the UK has reached record levels since the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack. (Campaign against antisemitism in X)
There has been an alarming rise in anti-Semitism in the UK following the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023. Citing CST statistics, the BBC reported that 1,978 anti-Semitic incidents occurred in the first half of 2024, up from 964 in the same period in 2023. This figure could be even higher after the Metropolitan Police's data reporting was blocked for three months due to technical difficulties.
The campaign against anti-Semitism has marked the emotional toll of the past year for British Jews. Their research found that “42% of British Jews have considered leaving the UK” in the past two years because of anti-Semitism. When anti-Semitism in politics is taken into account, that number rises to 85%. The organization also found that “only 26% of British Jews think the Crown Prosecution Service does enough to protect the Jewish community.”
A boy wears a kippah during a demonstration against anti-Semitism following the rise in anti-Semitism in the UK during the temporary truce between the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas and Israel in London, November 26, 2023. raises the British flag. (Reuters/Susanna Ireland)
Thursday's school bus attack follows another shocking act of violence. On November 25, a man on a balcony in east London fired a glass bottle at a group. jewish teenage girls He was walking to rehearsal, the Jewish Chronicle reported. One Jewish teenager was hospitalized with “serious but non-life-threatening head injuries.” The incident is being investigated as a “possible anti-Semitic crime.” A spokesperson for the Anti-Semitism Campaign told Fox News Digital that the victim was “obviously Jewish.”
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London, December 9, 2023: Anti-Israel demonstrators hold up a banner that reads “From the River to the Sea…” via Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group, Getty Images (Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
In 2023, 4,103 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in the UK, of which more than half, 2,140, occurred in London.
Amichai Tsikri, Israel's Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Anti-Semitism, previously called London “the most anti-Semitic city” because of the “atmosphere created by Hamas supporters.”
