{"id":941084,"date":"2026-05-06T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:46:13","slug":"uk-police-set-up-specialist-jewish-protection-team-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/941084\/","title":{"rendered":"UK police set up specialist Jewish protection team in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-895097\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British police<\/a> are setting up a new team of 100 officers, including counter terrorism specialists, to help protect Jewish communities across London after a series of antisemitic attacks, including the stabbing of two men.<\/p>\n<p>The plan announced on Wednesday for a dedicated protection team comes as officers announced more arrests for antisemitism, including detaining a 35-year-old man on Saturday after rocks were thrown at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-890851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambulance<\/a> belonging to the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">London&#8217;s top police boss, Mark Rowley, said Jewish communities were facing &#8220;sustained threats&#8221; from hostile state actors as well as extreme right-wing groups, elements of the extreme left, and Islamist terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are examining whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-895189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arson<\/a> incidents have possible Iranian links, after British security officials warned that Iran was using criminal proxies to carry out hostile activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Since late March, there have been a number of high-profile arson attacks, with four Jewish ambulances burned and synagogues targeted. Last week, two Jewish men were also stabbed. Both victims survived the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past four weeks, police said they had arrested around 50 people for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-895084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antisemitic hate crimes<\/a> and charged eight individuals. On top of that, 28 arrests have been made as part of investigations alongside counter terrorism policing for arson and other serious incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;This new team will be primarily focused on protecting the Jewish community, which faces some of the highest levels of hate crime alongside significant terrorist and hostile state threats,&#8221; said a statement from London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a meeting on Monday with business, health, and cultural leaders aimed at trying to tackle antisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British police are setting up a new team of 100 officers, including counter terrorism specialists, to help protect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[26388,144475,748,393,4884,257,529,13466,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-941084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-antizionism","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-terrorism","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116526526642265208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}