Claims of ‘no-go zones for Jews’ in London ‘total and utter fiction,’ says Shomrim president Rabbi Herschel Gluck has accused the Home Office’s independent advisor on extremism Robin Simcox of making claims about 'no-go [zones] for Jews' that have 'nothing to do with reality'

(Jewish News) Suggestions that there are no-go zones in London for Jews are “a total and utter fiction,” Shomrim president Rabbi Herschel Gluck has said.

Responding to claims made by Robin Simcox, the Home Office’s independent advisor on extremism, who suggested that London should “no longer be permitted to be turned into a no-go zone for Jews every weekend” as a result of the regular pro-Palestinian marches, Rabbi Gluck said he was “very disturbed” by the claim.

“It’s like saying the Earth is flat,” he said. “It has nothing to do with reality. To say there are no-go zones in London for Jews is a total and utter fiction.”

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