The Jewish Chronicle
The Metropolitan Police are seeking three men after a group of Jewish teenagers were attacked while celebrating Chanukah on a party bus in Oxford Street on Monday evening.
Around 40 young Jewish people were on the bus when a group of men swore, made obscene gestures and threw a shopping basket at them. Prime Minister Boris Johnson described video footage of the attack as “disturbing”. He added on Twitter: “Racism of any kind will never be tolerated in our society and we will continue to do all we can to root it out”.
Shneor Glitsenstein, director of the Chabad Israeli Centre Golders Green, who was on the bus with the young people, said they had been attacked “for being Jewish”. He said: “Let me be clear: on Monday evening we were attacked on the streets of London for being Jewish and celebrating Chanukah. While our bus contained no references to Israel, we were clearly a Jewish group. The young men who surrounded us were not engaged in political protest; this was a bigoted Antisemitic attack in the heart of London, seen by dozens of others, who stood by silently”.
On Thursday evening, the Metropolitan Police released images of three men who have been linked to the incident, which is being treated as a hate crime. The Metropolitan Police are also trying to identify a woman aged 25-30 with dark skin and long black hair who was present shortly before the incident occurred.
