Images of the Star of David and messages apparently relating to the September 11 attacks were painted on buildings in the north of the city on Saturday evening, authorities said.
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“This is clearly a concerning incident and one we are taking seriously,” inspector Kev Hailes said in a statement. “We have liaised with our partners in order to remove the graffiti and various enquiries are underway to find who is responsible.”
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According to the statement, no arrests have yet been made.
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Residents posted photos online of the graffiti, which appeared in several different locations in the Hampstead and Belsize Park areas.
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The South Hampstead Synagogue, located in a part of London with a large Jewish population, was also targeted.
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James Sorene, the CEO of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, said on Twitter that the targets include an “Israeli style cafe” that recently closed down.
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The numbers “911” refer to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that Jewish people were responsible for the September 11 attacks in New York, Sorene added, describing the grafitti as “chilling.”
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Reports of anti-Semitic incidents have spiked in the UK this year, according to the Community Security Trust charity that monitors anti-Semitism in Britain.
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The group said there were 892 recorded incidents in the first six months of 2019 — a 10% increase compared to the same period last year and the highest number for the same period since records began in 1984.
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The incidents in London came on the same day five people were stabbed at a Hanukkah celebration in New York.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the stabbing was “the latest in a string of attacks against members of the Jewish community in New York this week.”
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