Charedi campaigners against moves to regulate their education system have ratcheted up the rhetoric, carrying placards proclaiming “Stop Cultural Genocide” in the latest of a series of protests in Westminster.
Several hundred demonstrators gathered on Thursday on the first immediate day of Pesach to denounce what they believe would be undue state interference in their way of life.
Their immediate target is a Private Member’s Bill, making its way through Parliament with the support of the government, which wants local authorities to keep registers of children educated at home or outside school settings.
An estimated 1,500 boys aged 13 to 16 from Stamford Hill are thought to be learning in local yeshivot, which currently are not classified as schools.
