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On the evening of 29 April, British police in London detained a 33-year-old Palestinian man who was trying to break into the Israeli Embassy. According to the website of Israel’s Channel 12 TV on Wednesday, 30 April, the man was dressed in a kufiya and was carrying a knife.
According to the Daily Mail, the incident caused serious concern among diplomatic staff. Police sources said that the attacker “got too close to the area where Israeli diplomats were staying”, which caused panic among the staff. Immediately after the incident, increased security measures were introduced at the embassy.
Another Daily Mail source expressed surprise that the attacker had managed to get so close to one of the most secure diplomatic buildings in London.
This incident took place against the backdrop of a growing wave of anti-Israeli protests in the UK. Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas London has been the centre of numerous mass demonstrations. The largest Free Palestine march gathered more than 100,000 participants in Trafalgar Square. The protesters demanded an end to the fighting, waved Palestinian flags and blocked central streets.
One of the most high-profile cases was when a protester climbed the Big Ben tower, where he spent more than 16 hours disrupting traffic in the city centre.
At the same time, anti-Semitism has become more frequent in Britain: recently, police arrested a Spanish student for preparing an anti-Semitic terrorist attack, and a BBC employee was fired for publicly calling for the genocide of Jews on social media.
