“Shocking and insulting” hate speech sprayed across a wall in Hackney calling the UK a “Zionist police state”

Graffiti slurring Britain as a “Zionist police state” has been discovered on a wall in Hackney, East London, with a Jewish witness describing it as “shocking and insulting”.

Police are investigating but no arrests have yet been made.

A police spokesman said that the force is aware of the graffiti and has “contacted the council to get it removed as a matter of urgency”.

A witness said that he was “horrified at such a crude antisemitic trope being used”.

This is not the first time that this phrase has been sighted in the area.

Campaign Against Antisemitism’s analysis of Home Office statistics shows that an average of over three hate crimes are directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales, with Jews almost four times more likely to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group.

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