Hate crimes against London’s Jewish minority have surged over the last 12 months with an increase of 93.4% according to figures from the Metropolitan police. In the 12 months from July 2014, police recorded 499 anti-Semitic crimes in London compared with 258 in the same period the preceding year.
London – Four men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a major jewel heist in London’s Hatton Garden diamond district over the Passover holiday weekend.
British three-year-olds have been told “the non-Jews” are “evil” in a Kindergarten worksheet handed out at ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in north London, it can be revealed.
Anti-Semitic graffiti featuring a swastika and the words “yid s**t” was found scrawled on the fence of a girls primary Jewish school in London Monday, marking the latest in a series of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain’s capital.
London – A north London Chasidic school which made headlines earlier this year for threatening to ban students whose mothers drive them to school is back in the news again – this time for having its application for state aid rejected.
The former Labour peer Lord Janner must attend a preliminary hearing on child abuse charges despite his severe dementia, a magistrate has ruled.
LONDON – Anjem Choudary, Britain’s most high-profile Islamist preacher, well-known globally for praising the men responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, was charged on Wednesday with inviting support for Islamic State (IS).
LONDON – Shomrim, a volunteer security organization that patrols areas with large Jewish populations in the UK, has drawn the ire of London’s police commissioner.
The family of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko have made a final plea to the judge presiding over the inquiry into his death to formally implicate Vladimir Putin in his murder.
The number of reported anti-Semitic incidents in the UK has increased by more than 50%, figures released by a charity have suggested.