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Anti-Israel protesters raised Nazi and terrorist salutes at a Pro-Palestinian march and Pro-Israel counter-protest in London, according to statements by Stop The Hate UK and the Metropolitan Police.
The Met appealed to the public on Sunday for their aid in the identification of an elderly man “in connection with an alleged public order offense,” confirming to STH on social media that the investigation was related to a video of the suspect raising his arm in a Nazi salute in the direction of counter-protesters.

STH on Sunday published footage on X/Twitter of another anti-Israel marcher who appeared to shout “Heil Hitler” and raise a Nazi salute and then a middle finger in the direction of pro-Israel counter-protesters.

“When we tell you these are hate marches, when we tell you that British Jews are frightened to enter central London when they come to town – this is why,” STH wrote on social media on Saturday. “A Nazi salute in full view of officers and directed at Jews. How many more instances like this do Jewish Londoners have to endure before you do something to stop these hate marches?”

The Met issues warnings
STH also condemned the presence of red inverted triangles in protest materials and the hand gesture counterparts raised by activists. The NGO charged that the Met understood the meaning of the inverted red triangle, a terrorist symbol used in Hamas propaganda videos to indicate the targeting of their enemies, but had ignored their use at the protest.

The PSC said on Instagram that tens of thousands had participated in the national demonstration aimed at ending what they see as complicity by the British government, businesses, and institutions with a supposed genocide in Gaza.

“End the genocide, hands off Lebanon, don’t attack Iran, stop arming Israel,” proclaimed promotional material for the demonstration.

Trade unionist Andrew Murray spoke to attendees, according to co-organizer Stop the War Coalition, calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be held responsible for the deaths of Gazan civilians.

“Whether it is tomorrow, next week, next year, or ten years’ time, Netanyahu and his gang of criminals will be held to account for this slaughter!” said Murray.

An American student was beaten in a Dublin nightclub at the beginning of the month, targeted because he was Jewish, according to Irish Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder and Jewish Representative Council of Ireland chair Maurice Cohen.

The November 9 incident, which gained international attention after the victim spoke to The Irish Times on Saturday, is being investigated by the Gardai, the national police.

Cohen said in a November 12 statement that the victim had been asked if he was Jewish before he was assaulted. The student told the Times that he had been wearing a Star of David necklace at the time of the encounter. Wieder told The Jerusalem Post that three men assaulted the Jewish student when he was alone in the club’s bathroom

The student suffered a concussion from the assault, according to the Times, and when the Gardai were speaking to witnesses, a person who was not a party to the attack declared that “the Jews in Amsterdam – they got what they deserved.” On

The Gardai said they were investigating the “hate-related motivation” and assigned a diversity liaison officer to the victim.

A Holocaust memorial was graffitied in the Polish town of Bilgoraj, according to the municipality, the second act of vandalism against the town’s Holocaust monuments in November.

“This year, Jews murdered 44,000 women and children” was improperly written in Polish on a memorial at the Konopnicka Street cemetery early Wednesday or late Tuesday. Polish social media users were quick to notify that spelling mistakes likely denoted that the vandals were not native Polish speakers.

Photographs published by the municipality showed an improperly drawn Star of David with an equals sign and a Nazi swastika. Memorial plaques were crossed out, and “Stop” was written in English alongside the Polish message

Bilgoraj once had a strong Jewish community presence, but in 2018, The Jerusalem Post reported that the last Jewish resident died almost 21 years ago. Many of the Jews were killed during the Holocaust after they were deported to the Auschwitz, Belzec, and Treblinka death camps. The municipality supported several programs to maintain Jewish memorials and restore historical sites.