Two men have been convicted of religiously aggravated harassment after filming antisemitic TikTok videos in north London. Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkadir Amir Bousloub, 21, both from West Drayton, Hillingdon, pleaded guilty to the offence at Thames Magistrates Court on Saturday.
The incident occurred on Clapton Common in Stamford Hill at about 9pm on Thursday, when the pair approached, harassed and filmed Jewish people. Officers arrested five men in Hackney, with two others aged 20 and a 21-year-old released on bail pending further inquiries.
Bedoui and Bousloub were charged with religiously aggravated intentional harassment under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and intentional harassment under the Public Order Act 1986. They pleaded guilty to the religiously aggravated public order offence.
Det Supt Oliver Richter, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said: “This was a deliberate and targeted antisemitic attack, aggravated by the pair’s intention to post the incident on social media to spread hatred. It is completely unacceptable and has no place in London.”
The arrests came days after the Metropolitan Police allocated 100 officers to a new community protection team focused on protecting Jewish communities across London, following a series of recent attacks including the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green. The force has arrested about 50 people for antisemitic hate crimes in the past four weeks and charged eight individuals.
