The graffiti reading “Fuck the Jews” was
discovered June 29 at the Simon Marks primary school in the east London
borough of Hackney, the Jewish News of London reported Wednesday.
“It’s disturbing,” said a spokesman for the
Jewish volunteer watch group, Shomrim, which posted an alert on Twitter.
“They were nasty words. It’s being investigated at the moment – we’re
checking out CCTV but no one has been caught yet.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said in a statement that the group was “deeply concerned” by the attack.
Also on June 29, two cars were vandalized outside Skver Synagogue by a man wielding an axe or a hammer, according to Shomrim.
Figures released Friday by the Metropolitan
Police show that anti-Semitic crimes rose last year by 138 percent, from
208 in 2013 to 495 in 2014, with some of the biggest increases in the
boroughs of Brent and Hackney.
Jonathan Sacerdoti, the spokesman for the
Campaign Against Antisemitism said the “alarming rise” in such incidents
was disturbing.
It “serves to emphasize the importance of
acknowledging and then combatting discrimination which can cause British
Jews to feel threatened and endangered,” he said.
Earlier this week, police ordered a group of
neo-Nazis who planned to hold an anti-Semitic rally in the
heavily-Jewish London area of Golders Green to move the event to central
London.
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