Jewish children, teens violently attacked in London: 'streets are no longer safe'

The latest targets of antisemitic attacks spreading done Western Europe were Jewish teens and children successful the United Kingdom. On Thursday, 2 buses carrying students from a London Jewish schoolhouse were attacked astatine a autobus halt by a swarm of astir 10 teens from a adjacent schoolhouse who wielded ample rocks, the Jewish Chronicle reported.

Four teens boarded 1 of the double-decker buses and went to the 2nd level, wherever they began to curse astatine students and springiness them the mediate finger. One 12-year-old student, who professed helium was "scared" by the attack, described however the teens "were swearing astatine us, saying ‘F--- Israel, cipher likes you. F--- off, you bitches. They were filming america similar they were enjoying it. There were tons of radical successful the thoroughfare and cipher tried to halt them," the pupil told The Jewish Chronicle. 

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After the 4 teens got disconnected the bus, they began to propulsion dense rocks astatine the buses. An 11-year-old pupil recalled, "I don’t cognize wherever they got the rocks from – possibly they had them successful their bags. None of america knew what to do." She reported that immoderate students ran disconnected the bus, but she remained aboard. "They were swearing astatine america and filming us," she explained. "We don’t cognize what they are going to bash with that video oregon wherefore they did what they did."

"This incidental did not instrumentality spot successful a vacuum," a spokesperson from the British enactment Campaign Against Antisemitism told Fox News Digital. "Over the past year, we person repeatedly warned of the unsafe consequences of Jew-hate going unchecked." 

Citing the Campaign Against Antisemitism’s findings that "69% of British Jews are little apt to amusement disposable signs of their Judaism successful public," the spokesperson explained that "the elemental information is that our streets are nary longer harmless for British Jews and their children. . . . It is clip for arrests and those who interruption the instrumentality indispensable look consequences."

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Antisemitism successful the UK is hitting grounds levels since the Hamas panic attacks connected Oct. 7. (Campaign Against Antisemitism connected X)

Antisemitism has seen a startling emergence successful the UK successful the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 panic attacks. Citing CST statistics, the BBC reported that 1,978 antisemitic incidents occurred during the archetypal six months of 2024, up from 964 during the aforesaid play successful 2023. The fig whitethorn beryllium higher, arsenic the Metropolitan Police’s information reporting was obstructed for 3 months owed to method difficulties.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism has recorded the affectional toll of the past twelvemonth for British Jews. According to their research, "42% of British Jews considered leaving Britain" implicit the past 2 years connected relationship of antisemitism. The fig roseate to 85% erstwhile considering antisemitism successful politics. The enactment besides recovered that lone "26% of British Jews deliberation the Crown Prosecution Service does capable to support the Jewish community."

A boy, wearing a kippah, holds the British emblem astatine a march against antisemitism, aft an summation successful the UK, during a impermanent truce betwixt the Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas and Israel, successful London connected November 26, 2023.  (Reuters/Susannah Ireland)

Thursday’s schoolhouse autobus onslaught follows different startling enactment of violence. On Nov. 25, a antheral connected an East London balcony launched solid bottles astatine a radical of Jewish teenage girls walking to a rehearsal, the Jewish Chronicle reported. One of the Jewish teenagers was hospitalized with "serious but non-life changing caput injuries." The incidental is being investigated arsenic a "potential antisemitic crime." The spokesperson from the Campaign Against Antisemitism told Fox News Digital that the unfortunate was "visibly Jewish."

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London, Dec. 9 2023: anti-Israel protesters clasp a banner saying "From the stream to the sea.." Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

In 2023, 4,103 antisemitic incidents were recorded successful the UK, with much than fractional of them, 2,140, occurring successful London. 

Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism antecedently called London "the astir antisemitic city," connected relationship of the "atmosphere created by Hamas supporters."