
Watchdog: London a ‘No-Go’ Zone for Jews at Weekends
London has become off-limits to Jewish people every weekend because of pro-Palestine protests, the watchdog for countering extremism has said. Robin Simcox, the government’s independent commissioner for countering extremism, wrote in The Telegraph on Thursday that anti-Semitism is “skyrocketing” and that London had become a “no-go zone for Jews every weekend.” Mr. Simcox said that protests had become “ever more vociferous, with ‘from the river to the sea’ beamed onto the side of Big Ben during a vote on Gaza.” Last month, the Jewish charity the Community Security Trust (CST) reported that the UK had recorded its highest volume in anti-Semitic incidents in 40 years, with two-thirds occurring on or after Oct. 7, 2023, the day of the deadly terror attack in Israel....
