Man ‘arrested after attacking car showing Israeli flag’ in Golders Green
A man has allegedly attacked a car displaying an Israeli flag in north London, it has been claimed.
Barnet councillor Alex Prager tweeted an image of a group pinning down a man in the middle of a road in Golders Green on Friday morning.
Footage shared elsewhere on Twitter shows the group of men appearing to struggle to hold someone to the floor next to a vehicle, as passersby stop to watch and record the scene.
Mr Prager said the alleged incident came just hours after the home secretary met with members of the Jewish community in the area, following footage showing car passengers shouting antisemitic abuse at residents last week.
The councillor for West Hendon wrote: ‘Priti Patel reaches out to the Jewish community in Golders Green just 2 hours before a man is detained for allegedly attacking a car which was sporting an Israeli flag.’
Anti-semitism charity Community Security Trust (CST) claimed a man was detained shortly before 10am this morning.
CST tweeted: ‘There is no cause for alarm. The situation is dealt with.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Met Police for comment.
The alleged incident comes after four men were arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offences, following a video showing passengers in a convoy of cars shouting ‘F*** the Jews, rape their daughters’.
One could be seen in the video using a megaphone to shout at passersby as they drove through residential areas in Golders Green and St John’s Wood, near a Jewish community centre.
Labour leader Keir Starmer condemned the rally as ‘disgusting’ while Mike Freer, MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said: ‘The scenes I’ve witnessed in my constituency today have left me sick to my stomach.
‘The blatant and open antisemitism on display today, deliberately targeting areas with large Jewish populations, is nothing short of incitement and I have urgently raised the matter with the Home Secretary, Commissioner and Mayor.’
In a separate unrelated incident, two men were charged after a rabbi was attacked outside a synagogue in Essex last week.
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