Three people enjoying a night out in London's West End were attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning by a group of Arabic-speaking men “because they were Jewish”, with police arriving at the scene despite repeated protests. It took almost 30 minutes. A phone call from the victim.
Around 20 people were “sworn in Arabic” in central London's Leicester Square after a trio of Jewish friends overheard them “speaking Hebrew” on their way to a nightclub. The attack was allegedly carried out by a group of men.
One of the victims, a 28-year-old woman named Tehira, said: Said telegraph paper: “They heard us talking and said, ‘Are you Jewish?’… I said, ‘Yes, I am Jewish,’ and they said, ‘Palestinian. They started shouting, 'Liberate,' and all these kinds of abuses against us, the Jews.”
“So we tried to leave, to stay out of trouble, but they started chasing us and then all of a sudden it started with two or three guys and all of a sudden they called all their friends and 15 people. ' 20 men started physically attacking us. ”
“I hurt my leg and got hit in the neck,” she continued. “I tried to run away and called the police many times, at least 10 times, and I kept crying to them, saying, 'I'm a girl, and a group of guys didn't want me because I'm Jewish.' They're attacking me and my friends, please. Could you please come, I'm scared to death.”
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Tehilla claimed that despite her repeated pleas for police to come to the scene, the operator told her: “You're not the only one calling tonight.”
Metropolitan Police Superintendent Lucy O'Connor confirmed that officers arrived at the scene 28 minutes after being alerted, and after the attacker and victim had already dispersed.
“Of course I wish I had come to help sooner,” she said. “I know how upsetting such unforgivable violence is for those injured and those who witnessed the incident, as well as the wider community. I share their concerns.”
Mr O'Connor said the Met was treating the incident as an anti-Semitic hate crime, adding: “I can assure Londoners that tackling anti-Semitic crimes is a priority for the Met. Our… There is no place for hate in our city.”
But a friend of the victim accused London police of “double policing”, saying: “Police aren't tackling weekly hate marches. They're not tackling anti-Semitism.
“The feeling towards the Jewish community is that the police and government leaders don't care about us…This climate is very dire for the British Jewish community.”
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