Met launches hunt for man who called for âdirty Jews to get beheaded one by oneâ

âF**k Israel, big up Palestine. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea,â the man was heard shouting
The Metropolitan Police has launched a hunt for a man who called for âdirty Jewsâ to âget beheaded one by oneâ.
Footage shows the man, wearing a thobe, a traditional Islamic garment, confronting people in the street in east London as he made the vile remark.
One clip posted by Jewish community policing group Shomrim showed him leaning towards someone and shouting: âThe Jews, you man are going to get beheaded one by one.
âYou dirty Jews. Big up Palestine,â he added. âF**k Israel, big up Palestine. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.â
Shomrim described the footage as a âhorrific video⌠showing a gentleman threatening to behead Jews and much more.â
It added it was âaware of the fact that the Orthodox Jewish community is exceptionally concerned about these threatsâ.
It is âworking closelyâ with Scotland Yard, it said â and hoped this might provide some reassurance to the community.
The Met has now confirmed officers were sent to Whitechapel Road in Tower Hamlets.
That was the same street â and same location, outside the East London Mosque â on which columns of masked Muslim men were seen chanting âAllahu Akbarâ last year.
âThe Jews, you man are going to get beheaded one by one,â the man says
In a statement, the force said: âWe are aware of this video, which was reported to police earlier on Friday afternoon.
âOfficers have attended the scene and are carrying out urgent inquiries to identify the man involved.
âWe understand that incidents like this cause significant concern and we take all reports incredibly seriously.
âHate crime of any kind has no place in our communities.â
Just days ago, police were forced to intoduce a dedicated team of 100 additional officers specifically for protecting Jewish people in London.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of masked men marched through Whitechapel in October in exactly the same location as Fridayâs video
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That came after a slew of attacks on Jews and Jewish sites across London.
The US, home to the worldâs second-largest Jewish population behind Israel, had to tell its citizens to use caution when visiting Jewish areas in Britain as a result.
Britainâs terror threat level was upgraded from âsubstantialâ to âsevereâ after two Jewish people were stabbed in Golders Green â where the King visited on Thursday in an historic show of support.
Security chiefs in the UK and in America believe an attack is highly likely within the next six months following an increase in âIslamist and extreme right-wingâ ideology, MI5 said.
King Charles travelled to Golders Green to express his unwavering solidarity with the Jewish community in the wake of recent antisemitic violence
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Israelâs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also hit out at Britainâs âweaknessâ in dealing with antisemitism, saying it âgaslights one antisemitic attack after another in Londonâ.
He added: âWords are not enough to confront this scourge. We demand and expect action by the British Government to protect the Jews of England and bring antisemites to justice.â
But today, police are refusing to divert a massive pro-Palestinian march from a synagogue.
Jewish worshippers will be forced to walk through hordes of pro-Gaza protesters at the Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally if they want leave Westminster Synagogue in the west of the capital.
Karen Newman from the Board of Deputies of British Jews said worshippers âdonât want to have to run the gauntlet when they leaveâ.
The Met said this week it recognised the impact the marches had had on the Jewish community but had decided against imposing similar restrictions on this occasion.
Anyone with information on the incident in Tower Hamlets has been asked to contact the Met quoting CAD 4911/15MAY26.


