Police and security officials did not find any explosives in their inspection of the building.
"This incident underlines how vital our work is," Abigail Morris, director of museum, told the Jewish Chronicle. "We welcome thousands of visitors to the Jewish Museum every year, including 20,000 schoolchildren ‐ 95 percent of whom are not Jewish. We challenge prejudice and combat anti-Semitism by breaking down barriers and building bridges."
The hoax threat came within hours of a similar threat to the Sydney Jewish Museum.
A day earlier, 28 Jewish community centers and Jewish schools, and the the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
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office of the Anti-Defamation League were evacuated after receiving bomb threats in the fifth wave of such threats since the beginning of the year.
UK home secretary pledges continued funding for security at Jewish institutions
[IsraelTimes] Speaking at CST event, Amber Rudd promises support amid uptick in anti-Semitic incidents, says ’I wish anti-Semitism was a subject of the past’.
Rudd said her office would provide £13.4 million (NIS 60 million) for security measures in the Jewish community in the coming year. The money, she said, would go towards security guards and protection at independent and state Jewish schools, kindergartens, synagogues and community sites.
The same sum was pledged to protect the Jewish community in 2016, a slight increase from £11.5 million (NIS 52 million) promised in 2015 by then-prime minister
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Lloyd Dorfman, the CST’s deputy chairman, said Britannia had seen a sharp rise in anti-Semitic attacks over the last eight months, with over 100 per month, a number rarely reached in the years prior.
"In the 10 years prior to 2016, there were only ever six separate months when the number of anti-Semitic incidents exceeded 100 in the month," he said.
"By comparison, we recently completed eight consecutive months with over 100 incidents in each month. As the process of leaving the EU unfolds, we must all be vigilant in guarding against attacks on faith, ethnic and national minorities," he added.
The CST released a report last month noting that anti-Semitism in the UK reached "unprecedented" levels in 2016, after a rise of 36 percent in the number of incidents.
Some 1,309 incidents were reported in 2016 ‐ the highest on record -- compared to 960 incidents in 2015 and 1,182 the year before, when Israel launched military action against terror groups in the Gazoo Strip, provoking a strong backlash against Jewish communities across the world, something the CST called a "trigger event."