Jewish Children, Teens Violently Attacked in London: 'Streets Are No Longer Safe'

The latest targets of antisemitic attacks spreading through Western Europe were Jewish teens and children in the United Kingdom. 

On Thursday, November 28, two buses carrying students from a London Jewish school were attacked at a bus stop by a swarm of around ten teens from a nearby school who wielded large rocks, Jewish media reported.  

Four teens boarded one of the double-decker buses and went to the second level, where they began to swear at students and give them the middle finger. One 12-year-old student, who professed he was scared by the attack, described how the teens “were swearing at us, saying ‘F--- Israel, nobody likes you. F--- off, you bi---s. They were filming us like they were enjoying it. There were lots of people in the street and nobody tried to stop them.” 

After the four teens got off the bus, they began to throw heavy rocks at the buses. “This incident did not take place in a vacuum,” a spokesperson from the British organization Campaign Against Antisemitism told American media. “Over the past year, we have repeatedly warned of the dangerous consequences of Jew hate going unchecked.” 

Antisemitism has seen a startling rise in the UK in the aftermath of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks. Citing CST statistics, British media reported that 1,978 antisemitic incidents occurred during the first six months of 2024, up from 964 during the same period in 2023. 

Meanwhile, Germany’s Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) recently reported that the number of antisemitic incidents in Berlin in the first half of 2024 (1,383) was higher than the whole total for 2023 (1,270).  (FN / VFI News) 

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