In one of the most densely populated Jewish neighborhoods in the United Kingdom, an antisemite was caught on security camera using a knife to tear a mezuzah off a door before walking away with it.
London police are searching for a man who pried mezuzahs off doors of at least two Jewish homes in a religious neighborhood of the British capital Monday.
Shomrim of North West London, a Jewish security group, posted footage on X from a security camera that showed a tall, white male with a large backpack and dressed in a black hoodie and shorts openly approach one front door at 10:15 AM.
He can be seen unfolding a pocket knife and calmly and quietly levering off the small box containing Biblical verses that traditionally adorns the houses of Jews as a sign of their faith.
The cleanshaven, gray-haired individual then turns around and walks away, mezuzah in hand.
Asking for any other victims to come forward, Shomrim wrote, “We have received multiple reports of incidents that appear to be deliberate acts of #antisemitism, involving the removal of mezuzah’s in #GoldersGreen. We are liaising with police.”
A spokesperson for the organization told The Jewish Chronicle, “The religious Jewish community have traditionally borne a lot of the brunt of antisemitic attacks because they are most visibly Jewish. This has a profound impact on our quality of life.”