Four ambulances belonging to the Jewish community ambulance service have been set on fire in North London. Police said they were treating the incident as an “antisemitic hate crime.” Earlier this month, four men were arrested in England, suspected of gathering information on synagogues and individual Jews. Around the same time a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, was targeted by a bomb. and a bomber struck a Jewish school in Amsterdam. A group that was completely unknown a month ago has claimed responsibility for these attacks. The World’s Europe Correspondent Orla Barry reports on the concerns around the growing rise in violence against Jews in Europe.
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