Antisemitic posters accompany attacks on Jewish children in London

In alarming developments in London, flyers have been distributed calling for a ‘Zionist-free zone,’ while Jewish children have been subjected to verbal and physical abuse.

“Zionists leave Britain or be slaughtered” read flyers that were distributed in Hendon, a highly Jewish-populated neighborhood, GB News reported last week.

The terrifying message was written in Hebrew, with an extra line in English that read: “Ha, made you pick up litter you zianazi freak.”

“We are witnessing a troubling trend of redlines being repeatedly crossed,” Isaac Zarfati, executive director of StandWithUs UK, told GB News. “This is not just another wave that will pass if we remain passive.”

“We must take those threats and statements seriously because they will one day turn into actions, and decisive steps are needed to combat this alarming phenomenon,” Zarfati added.

Several violent antisemitic attacks were also reported to the police and the Community Security Trust last week.

A group of visibly Jewish schoolgirls were walking from a bus stop to their school in Stamford Hill on Monday, and pelted with glass bottles by a male attacker on a balcony above the street. A 14-year-old girl was hospitalized with head and facial injuries.

In addition, on Thursday, Jewish schoolboys reported being frightened and intimidated by teenagers who threw rocks and trash at their Jewish Free School buses, shouting slurs, including “f*** Israel,” the Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported.

“I was sitting at the front of the bus and everyone was completely terrified and hiding under our seats,” said one 12-year-old who only joined the school in September, the JC reported. 

“It was really scary. They had big heavy rocks… They were also swearing at us, saying, ‘Fck Israel, nobody likes you. Fck off you b*tches.’ 

“They were filming us like they were enjoying it. There were lots of people in the street and no one tried to stop them. I hope that something like that won’t happen again because it made me scared.”

The Hendon neighborhood was also targeted in October, when swastikas and messages reading “f*** the Jews” and “Heil Hitler” were raked into bunkers on the golf course, just before the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

The director of Israel’s Government Press Office, Nitzan Chen, said at the recent Jewish Media Virtual Summit, that the atmosphere in the United Kingdom – including the “endless” pro-Palestinian marches, and organized anti-Israel vandalism on Nov. 2, the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration – “were just opening events” for the violent attacks against Israelis and members of the Jewish community in Amsterdam during a soccer match on Nov. 7.

Chen called the “rebirth of the most awful antisemitism” a product of “the most unholy alliance between Islamic terror, Hamas supporters and the new-age far left, who have abandoned all their anti-racial and diverse [mentality, with their] plain and simple Jew-hatred.”

Since the Hamas attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 of last year, antisemitic hate crimes in the UK have quadrupled, with the British Government even launching a fund to try to tackle the resurgence.