Highlights
- Sadiq Khan warns the Iran conflict is fuelling hate crime and extremism on London's streets and online.
- Four Jewish community ambulances were set on fire in Golders Green in a suspected antisemitic hate crime.
- Prevent referrals are at an all-time high with under-18s accounting for 44 per cent of Londoners reported.
There were 1,844 antisemitic incidents in the capital last year and the British Muslim Trust reported a rise in mosque attacks.
Referrals to the government's anti-terror programme Prevent are at an all-time high with under-18s accounting for 44 per cent of Londoners reported.
Khan stated "We continue to see fear and hatred peddled online and on our streets while the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is having ripple effects here in the capital."
Funding to fight extremism
The mayor's Shared Endeavour Fund will support organisations tackling online extremism misinformation anti-Muslim hostility antisemitism and far-right and Islamist extremism.
The fund has already delivered over 130 projects working with more than 200,000 Londoners.
Khan said: "I will not stand by while Londoners face abuse and hatred and that is why I will continue to fund grassroots organisations to counter this supporting Londoners no matter their faith or background."
Metropolitan police commander Helen Flanagan, head of Counter Terrorism Policing London warned the global environment was "shifting quickly" adding there had been a rise in young people being drawn towards radicalisation through extremist content online. "
There is no tolerance for hate or extremist ideologies in London and these projects will be part of the mission to defeat terrorism," she said.
Since Trump and Netanyahu launched airstrikes on Iran ,Tehran has escalated attacks on Gulf neighbours and tightened its grip on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz sending shockwaves across London's communities.
