It is being treated as an anti-Semitic hate crime
A Jewish man was egged from a moving car in East London.
The attack on the Orthodox Jew happened on Clapton Road, Hackney, at about midnight on Friday (May 8) following the Sabbath.
A video shared by local Jewish security group, Shomrim, shows the white car whizzing down the road, and one of the two Jews hitting the floor, having been hit, clutching what appears to be the back of his head. He then brushes himself off and puts his hat back on.
It comes as The Met has launched a major community policing operation, following the attacks on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green in March.
A Campaign Against Antisemitism spokesperson said: “This is starting to have a 1930s feel to it. Pranking and casually attacking Jews has become somewhere between cool and a way to release fury that has nothing to do with Jews.
“Despite the murders, stabbings, arson and constant drip-drip of low-level attacks that injure and traumatise people and communicate to them that they are despised, still no national emergency has been called.
“Instead, the Government just offers up mild, reheated proposals and re-announces the same funding. When will this country start to take this epidemic seriously?”
A Met Police spokesperson said: ““Police received a report at 9.49pm on Sunday, May 10, of an assault on Upper Clapton Road, Clapton. A man in his 40s reported that an egg was thrown at him from a moving car.
“The Met takes incidents of this nature extremely seriously. The incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime.
“No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation continues. Anyone with information is asked to contact police on 101, quoting CAD 7332/10MAY.”
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