A Jewish man has been left fearing for his life after a stranger punched him and shouted ‘dirty mother f****** Jew’ at him during an unprovoked assault.
Police are now investigating the incident, which happened on Monday afternoon in Slough, Berkshire.
Footage capturing the horrifying ordeal shows the man, who was standing outside a property while carrying out work as a building inspector, being subjected to a torrent of racial slurs, including that he was a ‘baby killer’.
At one point, the attacker threatens the man with physical violence, saying ‘I’ll break your f****** jaw’ before accusing the man of ‘killing kids in Palestine’.
The incident has sparked outrage from campaign groups with Campaign Against Antisemitism calling it ‘Jewish-hatred without disguise’.
It said: ‘Jews going about their daily lives are not safe from being subjected to vile assault and violent threats. This is simply untenable for Jewish life in Britain.’
The Community Security Trust (CST) a charity which protects the Jewish community, called the attack ‘utterly abhorrent’, while a Rabbi who knows the victim has revealed he is now in hiding.
It comes as police continue to investigate a series of antisemitic attacks against Jewish communities across Britain, including arsons on synagogues and volunteer-led charities.
A Jewish man has been left fearing for his life after a stranger began punching out and shouting ‘dirty mother f****** Jew’ at his victim during the unprovoked assault
The attacker threatened the man with physical violence, saying ‘I’ll break your f****** jaw’ before accusing the man of ‘killing kids in Palestine’
The minute-long clip, which has been shared on social media, shows the victim being approached by a man riding a black bicycle on Elliman Avenue.
Stopping his bike, the man starts shouting at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, asking: ‘What are you doing round here, bruv?’
The attacker, dressed in a white baseball cap, grey and black-striped jacket, black jeans and white trainers, then pulls his bicycle up the driveway towards the victim.
‘I’m just on a job…doing some work,’ the Jewish man explained. ‘Am I bothering you?’
The victim then warned the man that, having had his video on to inspect the property, he was now being filmed.
‘Have I done something to you?’ he asked, as his assailant repeatedly asked him, ‘What are you doing round here?’.
His language then escalated, as he told the man: ‘You f****** baby killer.’
Asking the man to step back, he then said: ‘I’ll break your jaw, you little f***** dirty little motherf*****. You kill little babies in Palestine? Are you f****** dumb?’
He then aims at the man and threatens his victim if he does not turn his camera off.
‘You killing kids in Palestine, you motherf******?’ he repeatedly asks for the second time, before hitting the man again.
A passerby in a car can then be heard encouraging the attacker, shouting ‘break his f****** jaw.’
He turned back to his victim and said: ‘You come and to Slough, I’ll break your f****** jaw. You dirty motherf***** Jew.’
As the video footage ends, the man again comes for his victim.
Rabbi Levi Schapiro, who has spoken to a friend of the victim, told Daily Mail the Jewish man has been left fearing another attack and now removes his kippah when he is at work.
He said: ‘He’s hiding [his identity]. He’s scared. Can you imagine?
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‘We have a keyboard warrior government. All they’re doing is putting out tweets and statements, but no amount of tweets will actually deal with the issue.
‘Our politicians and the police need to start taking this seriously. People have to know [the culprits] will be arrested and actually jailed.
‘All that happens is, even if they are arrested, they are out in a couple of hours. They don’t get charged, they don’t get prosecuted.
‘This is [our] new norm. It’s happening to people in the Jewish community across the country. We are getting used to it.
‘There are copycat attacks and people can see the Government is not interested in taking a muscular approach to this new antisemitism.
‘We have seen in the last few years verbal attacks and spitting have become more violent. [Now] there’s arson attacks, physical attacks. The government has to realise what they have done so far has not had any impact whatsoever in dealing with the core issue. It keeps the community awake at night.’
As a member of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in north London, he added that the victim was particularly vulnerable.
‘We are visible. We are so easy to be identified. When I leave Stamford Hill I am looking over my shoulder, thinking, who is behind me, who is in front of me.
‘We’re worried, we’re scared. I can’t hide my identity. I’m Jewish. And why should I hide my identity in Britain in 2026?’
Thames Valley Police confirmed they are now investigating the incident.
The CST (Community Security Trust) called the attack ‘utterly abhorrent’.
A spokesperson said: ‘This unprovoked assault and the antisemitic abuse directed at a Jewish man simply doing his job is utterly abhorrent.
‘The video is completely shocking and there must be a lot of people who, if they watch it, will know exactly who the perpetrators is.
‘We are supporting the victim and urge anyone with information about this appalling incident to contact the police.’
Meanwhile Campaign Against Antisemitism described the incident as ‘Jew-hatred without its disguise’.
A spokesperson said: ‘We are urgently working to identify this thug who violently assaulted a Jewish man shouting ‘baby killer’ at him.
‘No mention of ‘Zionists’ here; this is Jew-hatred without its disguise. This is the current climate in the UK which has been bred by the inaction and appeasement from the authorities.
‘Jews going about their daily lives are not safe from being subjected to vile assault and violent threats. This is simply untenable for Jewish life in Britain.’
Alex Hearn from Labour Against Antisemitism said of the incident: ‘This is the UK, where being Jewish is considered provocative. Where people chant ‘violence is justified’ on the streets, and then we see it played out.’
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, said: ‘Sadly it seems the UK is becoming an intolerant and dangerous place just to walk around looking Jewish.
‘Antisemitism has been normalised to the point that this man felt totally at ease abusing someone just because of their faith. This comes after a week of almost daily arson attacks on Jewish places of worship and charities.
‘This hasn’t happened in a vacuum. We’ve seen antisemitism growing largely uncontrolled for more than two years and now we are seeing alarming levels of hatred in our communities.’
Anyone with information is urged to call Thames Valley Police with crime reference number 43260192511.
The latest incident happened following a spate of attacks targeting Jewish premises in London. Pictured: Volunteer-led Jewish community ambulances were set alight in Golders Green
The antisemitic attack took place just a day after a Jewish-owned shop in Lower High Street, Watford was targeted in a racially-aggravated attack.
A fire door was set alight and antisemitic graffiti left on a building between 4.15pm and 4.20pm on Sunday.
Hertfordshire Police said it was keep to trace a group of young men in the area at the time and called in an ‘isolate incident’ not connected to a spate of attacks that have targeted Jewish community venues over the last month.
At midnight on Sunday, a ‘bottle with some sort of accelerant’ was thrown through the window of a medical room at Kenton United Synagogue, in Harrow, causing smoke and minor damage to the premises.
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The incident was noticed by Met officers conducting security checks at local synagogues, who came across the scene.
A 17-year-old boy from Brent has since pleaded guilty to arson not endangering life and has been freed on bail conditions, including not to enter any synagogue. A 19-year-old man was also arrested after the attack and has been released on bail pending further inquiries.
Last Friday, suspicious items – including two jars containing powder – were found near the Israeli embassy in West London, forcing Kensington Gardens to be closed off while detectives investigated.
Police said the embassy was not attacked but officers are investigating whether the items were linked to a video posted by an Iran-linked Islamist group claiming to have targeted the building with drones carrying radioactive substances.
A 39-year-old man had since been arrested in Ealing under the Terrorism Act.
Last Friday night, there was an attempted arson attack against the former offices of educational charity Jewish Futures, in Hendon, north-west London.
Met Police said a man had approached the premises with a plastic bag containing what was later found to be three bottles containing ‘fluid’.
Two days previously, balaclava-clad suspects threw a brick and two bottles, thought to contain petrol, at Finchley Reform Synagogue. A 47-year-old man and 46-year-old woman in Watford were arrested in connection with the incident.
Arsonists also targeted four Jewish community ambulances run by Hatzola – a volunteer-led service – in Golders Green, north London, on March 23.
Counter-terrorism police have arrested 23 people after a spate of arson attacks targeting the Jewish community in London over the last month. Pictured: A cordon set up outside Kenton synagogue after a ‘firebomb’ attack on Sunday
Forty firefighters and six fire engines rushed to Highfield Road, near the Machzike Hadath synagogue, at approximately 1.45am following the incident.
The firebombing caused gas canisters stored in the ambulances to explode, with the force from the blast causing windows to break in a block of flats close by.
The synagogue, one of Europe’s oldest, had its roof damaged and stained glass windows smashed in the fire. There were no injuries.
Over the last month, 23 people have been arrested in connection with these incidents.
Pro-Iranian regime group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia – the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right – has claimed responsibility for the arson attacks, releasing video footage of the perpetrators shortly after each incident has taken place.
Met Police is now investigating whether Iranian-linked criminal proxies – people being paid money to carry out a crime – are being used to commit the attacks.
And on Monday, counter-terrorism police arrested seven people as part of a ‘proactive investigation’ into an alleged plot against a venue ‘related to the Jewish community’. The intended venue or target has not however been revealed by police.
