Volunteer Met officer ‘sought to intimidate Al Jazeera journalists’
A volunteer police officer in London is under investigation for allegedly intimidating Al Jazeera journalists covering a suspected antisemitic hate crime in Golders Green on Monday. The incident occurred while the journalists were reporting on an attack on ambulances belonging to a Jewish community service.
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Open questions and key claims
The group recorded 3,700 antisemitic incidents in 2023, up from 1,662 in 2022.
Our Hatzola volunteer ambulance corps is an extraordinary service, whose sole mission is to protect life, Jewish and non-Jewish alike.
This is a horrific antisemitic attack.
Antisemitism has no place in our society.
Two men aged 47 and 45 were arrested by counterterrorism detectives “on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life”.
The Metropolitan Police said the two men, aged 45 and 47, were arrested in London.
Reporters from the Press Association heard the group shout at the journalists to “go home”.
One of the men told an Al Jazeera crew member in Arabic: “Get out of here, you donkey, you dog.”
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