The National Jewish Assembly, We Believe in Israel, and Stop the Hate UK are launching a joint campaign in response to the Metropolitan Police’s failure to protect Jewish Londoners from racist and intimidatory protests.

The recent incident outside Erev, a Jewish/Israeli-owned restaurant in Notting Hill, was not a legitimate protest. It was a targeted harassment campaign against a Jewish business and its patrons. Demonstrators shouted hostile slogans, attempted to shame customers, and created an atmosphere of intimidation designed to deter Jews from entering a public space. Calling this “political expression” sanitises what it truly was: a racist picket of a Jewish establishment in London.

The Metropolitan Police allowed this to happen.

Despite having full knowledge of the organisers’ history and tactics, the Met imposed conditions so weak that they were meaningless. Protesters were permitted to remain directly opposite the restaurant, to shout at diners and staff, and to create a hostile environment that any reasonable observer would recognise as intimidation. This was not “balancing rights.” It was a failure of policing.

The double standard is impossible to ignore. The Met would not permit a far-right group to stand outside a halal butcher or Caribbean restaurant screaming abuse at customers. Yet when the target is Jewish, the same behaviour is waved through as acceptable protest. That discrepancy is discriminatory, corrosive, and profoundly damaging to public trust.

This incident was not an aberration. The same networks have repeatedly deployed identical tactics in Swiss Cottage, where residents reported harassment, racially charged chanting, support for proscribed terrorist groups, and even physical assaults. The Metropolitan Police are familiar with this playbook. They cannot credibly claim surprise.

Let us be absolutely clear about the facts:

• A Jewish-owned business was deliberately singled out.
• Jewish patrons were harassed and intimidated.
• Racially coded and hostile language was used.
• Police conditions failed to prevent harassment.
• Protesters were allowed to remain directly outside the premises.
• The organisers have a documented history of similar conduct.

This is not free speech. It is targeted harassment of a minority community — a tactic with a long and ugly history, which Britain once promised would never be tolerated again.

By treating these incidents as routine protests, the Metropolitan Police are sending two messages:

• to anti-Jewish agitators, that harassment of Jewish businesses will be tolerated;
• to Jewish Londoners, that their safety and dignity are negotiable.

That message is unacceptable.

The police already possess the legal and operational tools to prevent intimidation, harassment, and racially aggravated disorder. Those tools were not used. Our campaign demands that they now be used — not to “manage” these events, but to stop them.

Jewish Londoners are entitled to walk into a restaurant without being screamed at for who they are. The law recognises that principle. Policing practice must now reflect it.

This campaign exists because silence and accommodation have failed. We are calling for accountability, equal protection under the law, and an end to the normalisation of antisemitic intimidation on Britain’s streets.

Jewish life in London is not a provocation.
Jewish businesses are not legitimate targets.
And racism does not become acceptable because it wraps itself in politics.

We will not accept this any longer.

🚨 CALL TO ACTION: STAND UP FOR JEWISH LONDONERS 🚨

A Jewish-owned restaurant in London, Erev,  was recently targeted, harassed and intimidated by protesters — and the police allowed it to happen.

This was not free speech.
It was a racist picket of a Jewish business.

The Met has the powers to stop this. They didn’t use them.

📩 We are calling on you to join our email campaign demanding accountability and equal protection under the law.

If we stay silent, this will happen again — and again.

👉 Add your voice now. Send the email https://app.ActivistMailer.com/MetCampaign
Together we can make it clear: Jewish life is not a provocation.

Please share this message widely.
Silence is not an option.