A synagogue in north London has become the latest Jewish target in a spate of arson incidents in the British capital in recent weeks, a charity which provides security to Britain’s Jewish community said on Sunday.
“We are aware of another attempted arson, this time targeting a synagogue in north London, following similar recent incidents targeting the Jewish community in Finchley, Golders Green and Hendon,” the Community Security Trust said in a statement.
“On this occasion there was minor smoke damage to an internal room, but there were no injuries and no significant structural damage.”
There was no immediate comment from London’s police about the incident at Kenton United Synagogue.
On Friday night, there was an attempted arson attack on a business premises with links to the Jewish community, while a few days earlier police arrested two suspects over an attempted arson attack on another synagogue in the capital.
Meanwhile an area around the Israeli embassy in London was cordoned off following an online report that it had been targeted with drones carrying “dangerous substances”.
Police later said items they found did not contain any harmful or hazardous substances.
Pro-Iranian group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiyya, or Movement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam, has claimed responsibility for most of these incidents, posting on social media that it was behind the Kenton arson, along with a video purporting to show the attack.
