The local mayor assured that “the conflict is having a direct impact on Londoners, with more and more cases in the capital.”
London police reported on Friday that they had registered a 1,353% increase in anti-Semitic crimes this month compared to the same period last year, while Islamophobic crimes increased a 140% behind the Hamas attack on Israel.
The British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunakdescribed as disgusting he rise of antisemitism and assured that The United Kingdom will not tolerate any type of hatewhile groups that monitor incidents with Jews and Muslims indicated that cases skyrocketed after armed men Hamas will carry out a lethal raid on Israel and Gaza was later bombed in response.
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The police of the British capital patrols intensified amid rising tensions, but stated that there had been 218 anti-Semitic crimes between October 1 and 18compared to 15 for the same period in 2022. Islamophobic crimes increased to 101 from 42.
“Unfortunately, despite the greater presence of agents we have seen a significant rise in hate crimes across London“police said in a statement. “This includes the abuse directed at individuals or groups in person or online, criminal damage on racial or religious grounds and other crimes”.
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The agents practiced 21 arrests for crimes motivated by hateamong them a man arrested for defacing posters of missing Israelis and another for Islamophobic graffiti on bus stops.
The Community Security Trusta charity that advises some 280,000 British Jews on security matters, said it had registered 457 anti-Semitic incidents in all the United Kingdom since the attack Hamas October 7th to October 18th.
For its part, TellMamawhich monitors anti-Muslim incidents, said it had received 200 cases until October 16.
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“The conflict is having a direct impact on London and in Londoners, with more and more cases of abominable Islamophobia and anti-Semitism in the capital,” declared the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.
Source: Ambito
