**Communal tensions are on the rise in the wake of escalating bloodshed in Israel and Gaza**
The UK’s largest police force has deployed 1,000 officers across London to protect communities after a “massive” surge in antisemitic incidents and rise in communal tensions fuelled by escalating bloodshed in Israel and the Gaza strip.
Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in decades last weekend triggering days of retaliatory Israeli bombing.
Since September 30, there have been 105 incidents of antisemitism in London, of which 75 constituted offences, said Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor on Friday.
This compared with 14 incidents and 12 offences in the same two week period last year, he revealed speaking at a press briefing.
“That is a massive increase,” Taylor said, adding that while there had also been a rise in cases of Islamophobia it had been on “nothing like the [same] scale”.
Taylor said London’s Met Police would deploy a further 1,000 officers to planned pro-Palestinian protests in the capital on Saturday, with police expecting many thousands of people to attend a march to Parliament Square.
He warned that anyone signalling support for Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK, would be breaking the law and risked arrest.
“We will not tolerate the celebration of terrorism and death,” he said.
Three Jewish schools in north London closed for the day on Friday fearing violence after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for an international “day of rage” in support of Palestinians.
Jewish communities were understandably “scared for their safety”, Taylor said. But he added that he was not aware of any specific threats to schools in London.
Counter-terrorism officers were also assessing the risk of attacks in the capital but the “threat levels were not elevated at this time”, he added.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday announced £3mn of funding for the Community Service Trust, a charity that provides security to schools, synagogues and other Jewish community buildings.
Funny how Hamas says it’s about freeing Palestinians and then calls for a global attack on jewish people worldwide
Many (worldwide) were just waiting for an “excuse” it seems.
Some used to say that if there are 5 people at the table and 1 is a Nazi then there are 5 Nazis. I’m guessing that doesn’t apply anymore since the Nazis are brown.
Shame that in practice it doesn’t seem possible to separate the pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas groups.
Anyone genuinely pro-Palestine should be more opposed to Hamas than the Israelis are.
Disagreeing with what Israel government done is antisemitism ?What’s the logic here ?
Must everyone agree on what apartheid government is doing to innocent citizens in Gaza now ?
by the way, I don’t have any problem with the Israelis killing the Hamas terrorists!!
British police when children are being groomed and raped en masse: 😴🤷♂️
British police when someone puts a strip of bacon outside a synagogue: 😡🤬
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**Communal tensions are on the rise in the wake of escalating bloodshed in Israel and Gaza**
The UK’s largest police force has deployed 1,000 officers across London to protect communities after a “massive” surge in antisemitic incidents and rise in communal tensions fuelled by escalating bloodshed in Israel and the Gaza strip.
Hamas launched its biggest attack on Israel in decades last weekend triggering days of retaliatory Israeli bombing.
Since September 30, there have been 105 incidents of antisemitism in London, of which 75 constituted offences, said Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor on Friday.
This compared with 14 incidents and 12 offences in the same two week period last year, he revealed speaking at a press briefing.
“That is a massive increase,” Taylor said, adding that while there had also been a rise in cases of Islamophobia it had been on “nothing like the [same] scale”.
Taylor said London’s Met Police would deploy a further 1,000 officers to planned pro-Palestinian protests in the capital on Saturday, with police expecting many thousands of people to attend a march to Parliament Square.
He warned that anyone signalling support for Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the UK, would be breaking the law and risked arrest.
“We will not tolerate the celebration of terrorism and death,” he said.
Three Jewish schools in north London closed for the day on Friday fearing violence after former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal called for an international “day of rage” in support of Palestinians.
Jewish communities were understandably “scared for their safety”, Taylor said. But he added that he was not aware of any specific threats to schools in London.
Counter-terrorism officers were also assessing the risk of attacks in the capital but the “threat levels were not elevated at this time”, he added.
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday announced £3mn of funding for the Community Service Trust, a charity that provides security to schools, synagogues and other Jewish community buildings.
Funny how Hamas says it’s about freeing Palestinians and then calls for a global attack on jewish people worldwide
[https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/10/report-hamas-calls-for-global-jihad-invasion-of-israel-attack-jews-worldwide-on-oct-13/](https://americanmilitarynews.com/2023/10/report-hamas-calls-for-global-jihad-invasion-of-israel-attack-jews-worldwide-on-oct-13/)
Many (worldwide) were just waiting for an “excuse” it seems.
Some used to say that if there are 5 people at the table and 1 is a Nazi then there are 5 Nazis. I’m guessing that doesn’t apply anymore since the Nazis are brown.
Shame that in practice it doesn’t seem possible to separate the pro-Palestine and pro-Hamas groups.
Anyone genuinely pro-Palestine should be more opposed to Hamas than the Israelis are.
Disagreeing with what Israel government done is antisemitism ?What’s the logic here ?
Must everyone agree on what apartheid government is doing to innocent citizens in Gaza now ?
by the way, I don’t have any problem with the Israelis killing the Hamas terrorists!!
British police when children are being groomed and raped en masse: 😴🤷♂️
British police when someone puts a strip of bacon outside a synagogue: 😡🤬