{"id":27600,"date":"2026-05-03T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27600\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T10:32:09","slug":"rob-rinder-recounts-how-child-shouted-heil-hitler-at-him-on-streets-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/27600\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Rinder recounts how child shouted ‘Heil Hitler’ at him on streets of London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rob Rinder has recounted how a young boy shouted “Heil Hitler” at him while he was walking the streets of London.<\/p>\n

The broadcasting barrister, who was walking down Carnaby Street at the time, described the Friday evening encounter on social media.<\/p>\n

Rinder wrote: “On Carnaby Street last night, a kid on a bike cycled up, saw it was me, looked friendly at first, then offered up his favourite ‘lyric’: ‘Heil Hitler’.”<\/p>\n

He admitted uncertainty about whether to make the incident public, noting it was the first time he had personally experienced such abuse. <\/p>\n

The confrontation occurred against a backdrop of escalating attacks targeting Jewish people across the capital.<\/p>\n

Rinder wrote: “The most striking thing: I wasn’t shocked. No threat. No anger. Not a victim. Just: what has he been taught? <\/p>\n

“Hatred is learned. We are not defined by it. We answer it by what we teach.”<\/p>\n

The incident carries particular weight given Rinder’s personal connection to the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

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Rob Rinder has alleged that a young boy cycling along Carnaby Street shouted “Heil Hitler” at him on Friday evening<\/p>\n

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His maternal grandfather, Morris Malenicky, survived the Nazi genocide, having lost his parents, four sisters and a brother in the Treblinka Camp in Poland in 1940.<\/p>\n

The alleged incident comes amid what Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis has described as “a sustained effort to terrorise the Jewish people” and a growing wave of anti-Semitic crime in the capital.<\/p>\n

Last week, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green in a terror attack.<\/p>\n

In March, arsonists targeted four ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish non-profit organisation, setting them alight outside a synagogue in the same area.<\/p>\n

Subsequent months saw attempted arson attacks on synagogues in both Harrow and Finchley, while a Jewish charity shop in Hendon was also targeted.<\/p>\n

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The pattern of violence has left London’s Jewish community facing sustained threats across multiple neighbourhoods in north London.<\/p>\n

Statistics reveal a dramatic surge in anti-Semitic offences following the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023 and the subsequent military response. <\/p>\n

Monthly reports of anti-Semitic crimes from London’s Jewish community rose from an average of 58 before the conflict to 132 in its immediate aftermath. <\/p>\n

Although the figure has since fallen to 96 per month, this remains nearly double pre-war levels.<\/p>\n

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Sir Keir Starmer has suggested pro-Palestine demonstrations could potentially be banned, owing to their effect on Britain’s Jewish community<\/p>\n

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Rinder recently visited Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, where a man drove into pedestrians and attacked worshippers with a knife during Yom Kippur last October.<\/p>\n

“The strength of the community there is something you feel immediately,” he wrote on Instagram, praising Rabbi Walker’s determination to continue the service throughout the attack.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested pro-Palestine demonstrations could potentially be banned, owing to their effect on Britain’s Jewish community.<\/p>\n

When questioned about whether he favoured stricter policing of language at marches, or wanted some protests halted entirely, the Prime Minister responded: “I think certainly the first, and I think there are instances for the latter.”<\/p>\n

He emphasised his desire for “tougher action” against demonstrators using specific phrases at pro-Gaza rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Rinder has recounted how a young boy shouted “Heil Hitler” at him while he was walking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[380,451,27,18,16],"class_list":{"0":"post-27600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-across-the-uk","9":"tag-celebrity","10":"tag-london","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sgg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116510192043195455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}