“F*** Israel, nobody likes you,” reportedly shouted at Jewish children on bus
Yesterday, Jewish children were reportedly targeted with antisemitic abuse on a bus on their way home from a North London school.
It is understood that two Jewish Free School (JFS) buses were attacked by ten teenagers from another school. Four teenagers also were said to have boarded the bus whereafter they swore at and filmed the Jewish students. They also reportedly threw rocks and rubbish at the bus after leaving the vehicle.
One student attested that the teenagers boarding the bus shouted at them: “F*** Israel, nobody likes you. F*** off you b******.”
Of the incident, he said: “I was sitting at the front of the bus and everyone was completely terrified and hiding under our seats. It was really scary.”
It was reported that no one offered any help to the Jewish children during the incident, nor did anyone call the police.
The alleged attack comes just days after reports of a man throwing glass bottles at a group of identifiably Jewish girls elsewhere in North London, resulting in the hospitalisation of a fourteen-year-old child.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “This incident did not take place in a vacuum. Over the past year, we have repeatedly warned of the dangerous consequences of Jew-hate going unchecked. This incident comes only a few days after a visibly Jewish 14-year-old girl was hospitalised after having a glass bottle thrown at her. The simple truth is that our streets are no longer safe for British Jews and their children. Is it any wonder that 69% of British Jews are less likely to show visible signs of their Judaism in public, according to our polling? It is time for arrests and those who break the law must face consequences.”
Campaign Against Antisemitism’s analysis of Home Office statistics shows that an average of just under nine hate crimes are directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales, with Jews more than twelve times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group.
