Three people were attacked last night in Leicester Square, London, "for being Jews" according to reports in the leading media in London.
The three were attacked after they were heard "speaking Hebrew".
The three victims, all in their twenties, were enjoying a night out when they were attacked by a group of men.
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A 28-year-old woman named Tahila told the British "Telegraph" that she was "physically attacked" and called the London police 10 times and shouted to them in terror that she was "scared she was going to die", but the police did not come.
She went out with two male friends, 25 years old, who were apparently beaten in the head.
The group headed towards a night club, but as mentioned their plans went wrong due to severe violence when their only sin was that they spoke Hebrew.
They shared that they were not left to confront but "left because they wanted to stay away from trouble".
But still, their attempt to get away was unsuccessful and they were threatened around 02:00 by people chanting in Arabic.
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"They heard us talking and asked, 'Are you Jewish?'" says Tahila, the girl who was attacked and has lived in London since the age of 13, in an interview she gave to the "Telegraph".
"I said, 'Yes, I'm Jewish,' and then they started chanting 'Free Palestine,' and--- and horrifying Nazi chants against Jews. We tried not to get involved, to stay away, but they started following us and then suddenly, it started to take a more frightening turn with Some two or three guys, and suddenly they called all their friends and 15 20 guys started physically attacking us."
Tahila shares that she tried to intervene to help her friends but the Arab youths started attacking her as well.
"They didn't really care what happened to me," she says. "I got kicked in the leg, and then they punched me in the neck," she said.
"I tried to run away and I called the police so many times, at least 10 times, and I kept crying to them, 'I'm a girl, there's a group of guys who are attacking me and my friends because I'm Jewish, please can you come? I'm afraid I'm going to die.'
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in London, October 21, 2023, photo: AFP
"They don't really care. They kept saying, 'I'm sorry, it's taking a while, you're not the only one who called tonight,'" she said, adding that "I never imagined that this would happen in European, enlightened London, the place where I grew up from childhood."
It turned out that the police arrived at the scene 28 minutes after being called.
They arrived at Tehila's home around 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, about 16 hours after the first call, and are treating the incident as a hate crime.
The Community Security Trust, a charity for the support and protection of Jews in Britain, said it would "raise" the handling of the incident with the police.
"This horrific incident was reported to the CST 24/7 control center last night and we are in touch with the victims," the spokesperson said.
"We will raise this with the police and provide ongoing support to the victims."
The police did not help.
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A friend of the victims who asked to remain anonymous said they visited them in the north London hospital where they stayed for several hours and that the police "never turned up" despite claiming they did.
"We believe there is a two-tiered police situation. The police do not deal with the weekly hate marches, they do not deal with anti-Semitism," they told The Telegraph.
"The feeling of the Jewish community is that the leadership of the police, the government does not care about us," they added.
"The climate is very, very disturbing to the British Jewish community."
Deputy Commissioner Lucy O'Connor said: "We are investigating this incident as an anti-Semitic hate crime. I know how upsetting such inexcusable violence is for anyone who was injured or witnessed the incident, and for the wider community as well.
I share their concerns.
"Policemen arrived at the scene about 28 minutes after they were called. Of course, I wish we could have come to their aid sooner."
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