Today we are grappling with the horror of the attack in Sydney. My thoughts are with our Jewish community at this awful moment. What should have been a time of joy and peace was turned into an atrocity by antisemitic hatred. Rabbi Eli Schlanger grew up here in London, while Alexander Kleytman had survived the Holocaust as a child, and the youngest victim, Matilda, was just ten. This was an unspeakably evil act. 

I am very disturbed by the appalling racist vandalism that has been directed at mosques and religious centres in Leyton. It does not reflect

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