Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley says we must be “absolutely ruthless” in tacking antisemitism and islamophobia as cases of hate crime have risen since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The horrific and gruesome terrorist attack by Hamas killing over a thousand Jews, which is
00:05 stirring up issues across the world, including here, including anxiety and fear,
00:11 and also aggravating our own terrorist threats here. We've got over 500 cases of – related to
00:17 Islamist terrorists ongoing in the UK that colleagues are investigating. The growth in hate
00:23 crime against Muslim communities in London is up threefold, but against Jewish communities it's
00:31 13-fold compared to this time last year for this period. That's a horrific number, and it's not
00:37 surprising that communities in that context are fearful and anxious, and that's what we were
00:42 talking about today. On top of, of course, the protests, which sort of give vent to a whole
00:47 range of different opinions. I was explaining how we are absolutely ruthless in tackling anybody
00:56 who puts their foot over the legal line. We're accountable for the law. We can't enforce taste
01:02 or decency, but we can enforce the law. And we've made 34 arrests so far over the recent protests.
01:10 We've got another 22 cases on the back of those where we're searching for individuals,
01:14 trying to identify people from photos. And our cancer terrorism teams have got 150 cases triaged
01:20 out of the 1,500 referrals, 150 cases of behaviour online, which is of deep concern,
01:27 and we're going after those individuals.