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Police may use drones and facial recognition to protect the Jewish community after the...

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Police are considering using drones, real-time facial recognition, and behavioral analysis specialists to bolster the protection of the Jewish community following the antisemitic arson attack in London. The head of counterterrorism policing, Deputy Commissioner Laurence...

Suspected arson hits London Jewish ambulance service

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Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola Northwest, a Jewish community emergency service, were set aflame in London on Sunday night. “Officers remain on scene and the arson attack is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime,”...

Two men indicted in UK for spying on Jews for Iran

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Prosecutors in the United Kingdom have indicted two Iranian citizens for collecting reconnaissance on Jewish targets for Iran, British justice authorities said on Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police identified the two as Nematollah Shahsavani, 40, and...
Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth. addressing the Focal Point Conference in New York City alongside OLAM CEO Dyonna Ginsburg, May 2024. Photo by Jesse Kornbluth/OLAM.

‘Death to IDF’ chants at UK festival shock local Jews

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The anti-Israel incitement at the Glastonbury music festival in the United Kingdom on Saturday continues to reverberate in British Jewish circles, whose leaders have passionately condemned the instigators and the BBC for airing thousands chanting “Death...

New London bus route connects Golders Green, Stamford Hill Jewish communities

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A new bus line in London that connects the Jewish communities in Golders Green and Stamford Hill “provides a significant enhancement for our strictly Orthodox community,” the Board of Deputies of British Jews and...

Sunak vows to stand with Israel

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The United Kingdom will continue to support Israel against “reckless” attacks by Iran and its terrorist proxies in the region, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed in his annual Passover holiday statement on Monday. “My...
Susan Hall in 2018. Credit: London Assembly via Wikimedia Commons.

UK Conservative Party candidate says London mayor ‘frightens’ Jews

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Susan Hall, a Conservative Party candidate in the United Kingdom running to be mayor of London, has drawn criticism after saying that the city’s Muslim mayor scares British Jews. “I know how frightened some of the community...
MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit Party (left) and Religious Zionism Party chief MK Bezalel Smotrich at a campaign event in Sderot, Oct. 26, 2022. Photo by Flash90.

The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy

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One of the favorite strategies deployed by Jew-baiters is to divide the community into Good Jews and Bad Jews. Good Jews have politically correct, progressive opinions. Jews who don’t hold with those opinions are Bad...

£30,000 reward offered to catch Oxford Street attackers

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Jewish groups in Britain are offering a reward of £30,000 (nearly $34,000) to find those responsible for an attack on a busload of Jewish teenagers in Central London during Chanukah last year. The move comes...
A poster for an upcoming rally in support of justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Jewish woman murdered in France. Credit: Combat Antisemitism Movement.

French Jews plan mass rally in Paris to demand justice for Sarah Halimi

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The Jewish community in France is planning a mass rally in Paris on Sunday afternoon to demand justice for Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew who was murdered in her home by a Muslim...