London’s Metropolitan Police have made an arrest with regard to a series of antisemitic incidents, the police’s North West BCU (Basic Command Unit) in the Borough of Barnet said on Friday, without providing details.
“Officers investigating a series of appalling antisemitic offences in Barnet have made an arrest. We continue to have an increased police presence in the area and have been supporting our local Jewish community who are understandably very distressed by the incidents,” the police tweeted.
Officers investigating a series of appalling antisemitic offences in Barnet have made an arrest. We continue to have an increased police presence in the area and have been supporting our local Jewish community who are understandably very distressed by the incidents.
— Barnet MPS | North West BCU (@MPSBarnet) September 12, 2025
On Sept. 3, feces were smeared on the entrance and walls of a north London synagogue in Barnet’s Golders Green neighborhood.
The name of the synagogue was not made public, but images of the incident surfaced online.
Guards of the shul discovered the defacement and notified the authorities, as well as to Community Security Trust (CST), a nonprofit that protects the Jewish community in the United Kingdom.
“We are aware of an appalling incident that took place at an Orthodox Synagogue in North West London. We are in touch with the location providing them with support. We urge anyone with information to contact CST or the police,” a CST spokesperson told The Jewish Chronicle at the time.
A Metropolitan Police spokesperson commented: “Officers are investigating an alleged incident of religiously aggravated criminal damage at a synagogue in Golders Green, Barnet. No arrests have been made at this stage.”
According to the Shomrim Jewish security group, the defacement of the synagogue was the eighth attack on Jews in the U.K. in a week.
One of the previous incidents involved a man who shouted abuse at school children on Finchley Road.
A Shomrim spokesperson called the excrement desecration “a vile and deliberate and premeditated act of antisemitism.”
Sharon Klaff, a Jewish mother of two who lives in the area and was assaulted in 2018, during a pro-Israel rally in London, told JNS on Thursday that “there’s an atmosphere of fear in the U.K. not only about street violence against Jews and others, but also about speaking honestly about what’s causing it.”
She was referencing arrests in the United Kingdom in recent months under the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer of people who criticized on social media immigrants and other groups and policies favored by many progressives.
