Two boys charged over anti-Semitic attack on senior rabbi

The unnamed religious leader was set upon by two attackers shouting ‘F**k Jews’, ‘Dirty Jew’ and ‘Kill the Jews’ in Amhurst Park on November 29.

Two teenagers have been charged after a senior rabbi was beaten up during an anti-Semitic attack.

The unnamed religious leader was set upon by two attackers shouting ‘F**k Jews’, ‘Dirty Jew’ and ‘Kill the Jews’ as he walked in Amhurst Park in Clapton, north London, shortly before 10pm on November 29.

Scotland Yard released CCTV images of the suspects earlier this week before the teenagers, aged 14 and 15, handed themselves in early Tuesday morning.

The Met said the pair surrendered to an east London police station after relatives recognised them from the stills.

They have been charged with racially-aggravated assault and are currently being held in custody.

The 54-year-old victim had travelled to the UK from Israel to attend a wedding and has since returned home.

Jewish neighbourhood patrol group Shomrim said the rabbi left the Bobov Synagogue in Egerton Road and was walking along Clapton Common when he was assaulted.

The two attackers repeatedly punched him, threw him to the ground and carried on beating him, only stopping when a member of the public intervened.

Shomrim said the rabbi, who sits as a judge in a Judaic court, was left ‘collapsed on the pavement, bleeding and dazed, where he lay for several minutes’.

Fellow rabbi Herschel Gluck said the victim was left ‘bruised and traumatised’ by his ordeal.

The two boys are due to appear at Stratford Youth Court on January 7 next year.