Police on alert over ‘Jewification’ march in London’s Stamford Hill
A racist agitator has appalled members of Britain's Jewish community by announcing plans for a march next month against "Jewification" in Stamford Hill, the centre of the ultra-orthodox Haredi population.
A racist agitator has appalled members of Britain's Jewish community by announcing plans for a march next month against "Jewification" in Stamford Hill, the centre of the ultra-orthodox Haredi population.
Joshua Bonehill, who calls himself a "nationalist, fascist, theorist and supporter of white rights", has called for a mass protest in the north London area "against the complete Jewification of the borough" and against the Shomrim, a neighbourhood watch group, that he claims is an illegal religious police force.
He has produced a poster for his "Liberate Stamford Hill" march that features an anti-semitic caricature of a Jewish man and a video message saying: "On 22nd of March as one white and unified mass movement we will be finally pointing the finger in the right direction ... You owe it to your race white man."
The announcement comes ahead of new figures due to be published tomorrow by the Community Security trust (CST), a charity that funds security for Jewish schools, synagogues and residential areas, that will show that more anti-Semitic attacks than ever recorded were reported to its hotline in 2014. Bonehill claims that "in Stamford Hill, White people are openly spat at on the streets and viewed simply as 'Goyim', slave to the Jew."
The CST said it is in talks with the Metropolitan police about the march. It said local Jewish leaders are calm about the threat, but that many members of the wider Jewish community have voiced concern.
"He has a long record of racist provocation and anti-Semitic abuse but he doesn't have much record of being able to mobilise large numbers of people on the street," said Dave Rich, a spokesperson with the CST. "People should treat this with the contempt it deserves.
In a statement on his website Bonehill said: "It is our democratic and civil right to demonstrate peacefully and protest against the wrongs in society, we will not be threatened by the Anti-Whites or their Jewish puppet masters. I can categorically guarantee that on March 22nd, we will be in full force at Clapton Common in Hackney where we will stage our legally sanctioned demonstration".
