The failure of the police to catch the Oxford Street thugs has left the community “crying out for justice,” Campaign Against Antisemitism’s (CAA) chief executive Gideon Falter has told the JC.

Speaking to mark the one-year anniversary of the sickening assault, Mr Falter set out a blistering charge sheet against the national institutions who, he claims, are failing Britain’s Jews.

“An attack happened in front of hundreds of people on one of the most busy and iconic streets in our capital, and police seem to have decided early on that they weren’t even going to consider reviewing CCTV,” he said.

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“It’s just one on top of a whole heap of antisemitic hate crimes that police and the Crown Prosecution Service have failed to take action over.”

The anniversary comes after the CPS dropped charges against two men accused of taking part in the “hate convoy” that drove through Golders Green hurling chilling threats at Jews in May 2021. It means that despite video footage of the procession no participants will be charged.

“It seems to us a very clear case of joint enterprise, where a group of people in a car drove through London very clearly doing the same thing over and over shouting and inciting abuse as they went,” Mr Falter said. “If the Crown cannot prosecute that,” he went on, “what can they prosecute?”

The Oxford Street attack anniversary holds a personal resonance for Mr Falter. Eight years ago, it was the sight of a man walking down the same street with a sign that read “Save Gaza, Hitler you were right” that inspired him to found the CAA.

“I’ve grown up in this country, which is one of the best in the world to live in as a Jew, but it’s not going to stay that way unless we fight for it,” he said.

After five years as a volunteer sinking his life savings into the fight against antisemitism, Mr Falter quit his job to campaign full time.

“I will always be very proud to be Jewish and very determined to stand up for our people,” he said.