The fallout from the Channuka incident where a gang of men, most likely to be Muslims, abused and attacked a group of Jewish youth in Oxford Street continues to pile up. First it was the reaction to the incident itself by the public which came after a number of Islam related Jew hating cases. Then the BBC came under heavy criticism for basically lying about the nature of the incident in one of its reports and trying to blame the victims of it. Now a borough commander from the Metropolitan Police has come out and spoken about the incident but has got back from members of the public a whole host of criticism for the Met’s empty words on the subject of Islam-derived Jew hatred and the Met’s alleged reluctance to properly deal with it.

This is what the officer said on the Met’s Twitter feed.

Now comes the criticism. There are a lot of screenshots here but they represent only a fraction of the negative comment about the Met’s handling of this incident that can be found on that particular thread. Whilst there was some praise for the Met’s willingness to act or to state that they will act on this incident, the vast majority of comments at the time that I did the screenshots were overwhelmingly negative. Quite a few of the commentators drew attention to the Met’s alleged double standards when it came to crime and made claims that the Met treats each group in society differently from one another. Others who said that they were close to the incident or had early reports of it claimed that Met officers at the scene said that they could do ‘nothing about it’. Yet more commentators pointed out that police Islamophilia is not just a Met problem and pointed out the failure by police across the country to tackle Muslim majority rape gangs and how police officers cower in fear over possibly bogus ‘racism’ claims from certain groups.

If you read the comments screen-shotted below you will pick up a distinct sense of the Met not having the complete confidence of the public over the issue of Islam-derived Jew hatred and about preventing crime in general.