The Met said a woman had been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage and multiple assaults, but was subsequently released on bail
July 21, 2025 12:08
A woman has been arrested after footage emerged showing Jewish diners at a kosher deli being subjected to a torrent of antisemitic abuse.
A video of the incident, shared on social media on Sunday, showed a women yelling incoherently at patrons of Reubens Café and Bakery in central London.
The alleged assailant threw food over the diners and shouted abuse, before approaching customers on a table at a neighbouring outlet, apparently to argue with them.
A person off-camera could be heard claiming that the woman broke their phone by throwing it on the floor, that she was “pro-Palestinian” and that she “said something about Jewish”.
One of the diners, Yael, told Jewish News that she approached his group of five to ask if the restaurant was kosher. After they informed her it was, he claimed the woman “pushed her body forward and screamed in me and my friends face ‘free Palestine’ and told us we were killing babies”.
She then allegedly yelled at the table “for about three minutes’ straight” before going to the next table, then, when she saw the friends filming her, returned and “threw our water at us and took her hand, put it in our salad and threw it at our faces, threw my phone on the floor and all our food with it”.
At one point, Yael reportedly asked the woman cared that they didn’t support the Israeli government, to which the allegedly woman said she “didn’t care and that I was Jewish so that’s all that mattered to her”.
Following the incident the Metropolitan Police confirmed that a woman was arrested on Thursday, July 17 on Baker Street.
A spokesperson for the force said: “It was alleged that a woman had assaulted staff and customers while shouting antisemitic abuse and comments related to the conflict in the Middle East.
“Officers attended and arrested a 32-year-old woman on the street nearby on suspicion of racially aggravated criminal damage and multiple assaults.
"She was taken into custody and subsequently bailed pending further enquiries.”
In a statement, the CST added that it was aware of the incident and sent officers to the scene to support the customers involved.
“This is one of many antisemitic incidents to happen in recent months in which Jews have been subjected to hatred and abuse, with Israel used as the excuse,” a spokesperson said.
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