British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed Sunday to bring perpetrators of recent arson attacks on Jewish sites in London to justice as Britain's chief rabbi said "a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation" against Jews was accelerating.
Starmer said he was "appalled" by a spate of recent arson attacks in northwest London, the latest of which came on Saturday night, after a similar incident late on Friday.
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