London’s Metropolitan Police on Wednesday announced the creation of a special unit to protect Jews following a spate of hate attacks amid growing antisemitism.

The Met said the new “community protection team” will initially comprise 100 extra officers and combine neighborhood policing with “specialist protection and counterterrorism capabilities.”

It will provide “a more visible, intelligence‑led and coordinated presence focused on protecting” London’s Jewish communities, the force said in a statement.

The announcement came the day after police said they were probing the latest arson attack targeting Jews, this time involving a former synagogue in east London.

It followed last week’s stabbing of two Jewish men in the Golders Green area of north London, which is home to a large Jewish community.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder over the terror attack, in which he wounded the pair.

In March, an arson attack in the same neighborhood destroyed four ambulances operated by the Hatzola Jewish charity, while bottles suspected of containing gasoline have been thrown at two synagogues in other separate incidents.

The Met noted in its announcement that it has arrested over 80 people in the past four weeks in response to both........

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