Stamford Hill

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Jewish children targeted in latest anti-Semitic incidents in United Kingdom
Faygie HoltMay 2, 2022
“This attack against religious adolescent girls is not an isolated incident but part of a trend in the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill, which continues to experience violent anti-Semitism like New Yorkers are seeing Brooklyn, N.Y.,” said the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
Chassidic Jews in the Stamford Hill neighborhood of London, Nov. 28, 2006. Credit: Flickr/Wikimedia Commons.
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Passengers on London bus shout slur in heavily Jewish neighborhood
Faygie HoltJanuary 31, 2022
Member of Parliament Diane Abbott tweeted: “Shocking abuse and harassment of Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill Hackney. Important that the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
Captured surveillance footage of a London bus in the Jewish section of Stamford Hill. Jan, 29, 2022. Source: Shomrim/Twitter.
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Patrol group releases footage of Jewish boy being grabbed by London gang
December 15, 2021
Shomrim is calling on area law enforcement to do more “to hold this gang to account for 100s of racist attacks.”
Video footage of a Jewish boy being grabbed by a London gang on Dec. 9, 2021. Source: Screenshot.
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London police release photos of suspect behind attacks on Jewish men
September 2, 2021
“It is vital that we bring these incidents to a conclusion,” said Detective Chief Inspector Yasmin Lalani, senior investigating officer on the case.
Surveillance camera images of a man that police want to identify in connection to a series of assaults on Jewish men that took place in North London. Source: Screenshot.
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Police arrest man who assaulted pregnant Jewish woman outside London
March 23, 2021
The Jewish watch group Shomrim tweeted that it thanked the police for its swift response and the Twitter community “for the overwhelming response with providing vital information.”
London Metropolitan Police officers. Credit: Ian Stewart/Shutterstock.
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Middle-age man stabs rabbi in London neighborhood of Stamford Hill
June 12, 2020
The Hackney Police said that the attacker is a man in his 40s and has been “arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. … We are not treating this as terror-related.”
Stamford Hill, a predominantly Orthodox-Jewish neighborhood in London. Credit: Danny Robinson via Wikimedia Commons.
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Two teenagers charged in anti-Semitic attack on rabbi in London
December 18, 2019
“Detectives investigating a racially aggravated assault on a 54-year-old man in Stamford Hill have charged two boys ... a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old boy in connection with an incident in Amhurst Park on Friday, 29 November,” said Met Police in a statement.
CCTV images of the suspects behind an anti-Semitic attack in north London on Nov. 29, 2019. Source: London Metropolitan Police.
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Police release images of suspects who beat rabbi in London, yelled ‘kill the Jews’
December 6, 2019
The neighborhood watch group Shomrim said the victim, a judge in a Judaic court, was left “on the pavement, bleeding and dazed where he lay for several minutes” following the attack.
CCTV images of the suspects behind an anti-Semitic attack in north London on Nov. 29, 2019. Source: London Metropolitan Police.
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Rabbi beaten in London by teenagers shouting ‘kill Jews’ and ‘f*** Jews’
Campaign Against AntisemitismDecember 1, 2019
The unnamed rabbi was assaulted on Shabbat during a visit to the United Kingdom; he boarded a flight to Israel on Saturday night.
British Jews in London on March 17, 2017. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
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