Anti-Semites scrawled hate messages at four London synagogues and three dozen other locations, the London Evening Standard reported, and northeast London residents are being warned to be on the lookout for suspicious activity. Shops, pavements and walls outside four synagogues in the Clapton and Stamford Hill neighborhoods were sprayed with slogans, including "Jihad to Israel" and "Jihad to Tel Aviv."

David Greenwald, 20, from the Chasidei Belz Beth HeMedrash synagogue in Clapton, said that "everyone feels scared," according to the European Jewish Press. "This morning I went to synagogue to pray and saw the writing all over everywhere--walls, shops and traffic lights." Another community member stated, "It makes us feel that we are in exile."