BRITAIN’S Jews are suffering an anti-semitic backlash against Israel’s military action in Gaza with attacks, bomb threats, bricks thrown at a synagogue and “Hitler was right” banners.
About 100 hate incidents have been recorded by police and community groups this month — more than double the number that monitors would usually expect.
Many are said to have been carried out by young Muslim men and, in some cases, the attackers have invoked the Holocaust.
The most serious incidents being investigated include:
•A rabbi who was attacked by four youths outside a Jewish school in Gateshead
•Bricks being thrown at a synagogue in Belfast, smashing windows on two consecutive nights
•A group of Asian men who drove through a Jewish area of Greater Manchester, shouting “Heil Hitler” and hurling missiles at pedestrians
•A man using Twitter to call for a Jewish neighbourhood in London to be bombed so “Jews feel the pain”
