“If you overlay three things now — hate crime, terrorism and hostile state activity — you add all that together, that combined effect with that building of ideology online, that is really dangerous and troubling,” said Mark Rowley, head of London’s Metropolitan Police.
“And Jewish communities feel that and you can see that in how they talk, how it’s making them change their lives. That’s an appalling state of affairs,” he said.
He told The Times that British Jews are on the “hate” list of every racist and extremist group.
On Thursday, the UK increased its security alert level to “severe” — the second highest — in part because of the attack in Golders Green, as well as the threat from Islamist extremism and the far-right.
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