Two men were convicted Saturday when they admitted to antisemitic hate crimes after having traveled to a predominantly Jewish area of London to film themselves abusing Jewish people.
Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Bousloub, 21, pleaded guilty to a religiously aggravated public order offense at Thames Magistrates’ Court, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
It was the latest in a series of assaults on Britain’s Jewish community that included a terror attack that seriously injured two men, and arson attacks on Jewish property, including synagogues. In the most deadly recent attack, two men were killed in a stabbing and car-ramming attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur, in October 2025
According to police, Bedoui and Bousloub traveled on Thursday to Clapton Common, which lies close to the Stamford Hill area of the capital, home to tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews.
There, they “verbally abused” a Jewish man while filming the incident for the TikTok video-sharing platform.
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Officers were alerted to the incident and arrived while the suspects were still in the area.
Illustrative: A woman holds the hands of children as Metropolitan Police officers patrol the streets in Stamford Hill, north London on October 2, 2025 (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)
“Both suspects attempted to flee but were swiftly detained by officers at the scene,” police said.
“This was a deliberate and targeted antisemitic attack, aggravated by the pair’s intention to post the incident on social media to spread hatred,” said Detective Superintendent Oliver Richter, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets. “It is completely unacceptable and has no place in London.”
Bedoui and Bousloub will appear for sentencing at Thames Magistrates’ Court on June 5.
Three others who were also arrested in connection with the incident have been released on bail pending further enquiries, police said.
Amid a spike in antisemitic crimes, police noted that in the past four weeks alone, the Met has arrested around 50 people for antisemitic hate crimes, with 10 individuals charged.
Meanwhile, a man was arrested on Thursday for a suspected antisemitic hate crime after making threats to Jewish passengers on a bus on Upper Clapton Road, which joins Clapton Common, also close to Stamford Hill.
According to the Jewish community protection group, Shomrim, the man shouted, “Shame Hitler didn’t kill you,” and “You should all go in the gas chambers,” at Jewish passengers on a number 254 bus.
He also threatened Jewish children, claiming he had a knife, Shomrim said.
The bus driver activated an emergency alarm and Shomrim volunteers arrived and, along with members of the public, detained the man before handing him over to the police.
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— Shomrim (London North & East) (@Shomrim) May 7, 2026
A 50-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of making death threats, police said in a statement. No weapon was found on the suspect.
He was named by the Crown Prosecution Service as James Agius, of Hackney.
“The Met takes incidents of this nature incredibly seriously. The incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, and our enquiries continue,” police said.
Siwan Hayward, Transport for London (TfL) director of security, policing, and enforcement, said in a statement, “We are absolutely appalled by this report.”
“We take a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of hate crime, and work with the police to pursue anyone who is abusive to our customers or staff,” Hayward said, and that TfL was supporting police in their investigation.
Also Thursday, Zakos Michael, of no fixed abode, allegedly “repeatedly made antisemitic gestures and shouted abuse in a predominantly Jewish residential area,” the Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement Saturday.
He was charged with racially aggravated harassment. The statement did not specify exactly where the incident took place.
Metropolitan police officers are seen patrolling the ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Stamford Hill, north London, October 13, 2023. (Daniel Leal/AFP)
Meanwhile, Robert Jenrick, the Reform UK party’s Treasury spokesman, received a death threat that referenced his wife, who is Jewish, the Times newspaper reported Saturday.
The threats were left on the voicemail at Jenrick’s office.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it charged Nick Daly, 30, of Oxted, Surrey, with sending a death threat or threat of serious harm to a member of parliament.
He was also charged with sending an antisemitic message to the Israeli embassy and a hate message to a Muslim organization.
Separately, he was accused of possessing cannabis and a weapon. All the offenses took place between January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day, and May 7.
Jenrick is married to Michal Berkner, a British lawyer who was born in Israel and whose grandparents survived the Holocaust, according to the Times report.
Robert Jenrick attends a commemoration of the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas atrocities, in Hyde Park in London, October 6, 2024. (REUTERS/Hollie Adams)
On Friday night, Jenrick was interviewed for the BBC’s Question Time show and mentioned, in relation to funding for security for his party’s leader, Nigel Farage, that, “I myself have been the recipient of death threats. My wife is Jewish. We receive antisemitic abuse all the time. It is sometimes tough going into public life.”
Also on Friday, a man appeared in court in Manchester over alleged threats to Jews in the northern British city.
Greater Manchester police detained a man in his 60s following reported threats against Jews in the Heaton Park area of Salford.
Wayne Kelly, 65, appeared before a district judge at Manchester Magistrates’ Court, where he pleaded guilty to multiple hate crime offences, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
Sarah Hammond, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that Kelly “hurled vile antisemitic abuse at Jewish men who were on their way to a synagogue.
“Not content with shouting abuse, Kelly also threatened the man and made references to historic atrocities committed against Jewish people,” she said. “The strength of the evidence left Kelly with little option but to admit the offences.”
He is to be sentenced at a later date.
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police said they opened an investigation concerning an incident on April 20 when a car mounted the sidewalk and allegedly drove at three Jewish schoolchildren who were forced to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. The car then sped off.
The incident happened on Holders Hill Road, the location of the Hasmonean High School for Boys. In a letter to parents, the school said police were looking for witnesses to what it said was an “antisemitic traffic incident,” the BBC reported.
Also Thursday, a ninth suspect was arrested in connection with an arson attack in April that destroyed four ambulances belonging to a Jewish volunteer organization in Golders Green, another prominent Jewish neighborhood of London.