The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in London has arrested a TikTok user named Bacari, who goes by the name of “Mizzy.” Mizzy films himself staging a series of menacing pranks against the Orthodox Jewish community.

According to Shomrim Stamford Hill, a Jewish community defense group, the 18-year-old male went on a “1 man hate spree,” blocking a car being driven by an Orthodox Jewish man, jumping on the back of a Jewish teenager, and faking a robbery on a Jewish man whom he accosted and told, “you’re under arrest, give me what you have.” He also filmed himself wearing a fedora while saying, “Guys, I’m a f***king Jew.”

#HateCrime #Antisemitism #Jewish teenager assaulted by our well-known #Racist "tiktok" prankster@Shomrim located the child victim using our community contacts

Manor Road #N16 @MPSHackney CAD 4281 18/01/23 pic.twitter.com/4RdjbTEMY4
— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) January 19, 2023

The male was arrested on Wednesday and is in police custody.

In another incident that took place on a Transportation for London (TFL) bus, a “deranged male” verbally abused a Jewish mother and her three-year-old child, calling them “vermin” and “bad people.” The bus driver failed to act.

#Abuse #Jewish Mom and 3yr old child confronted on a @TFL #67 bus

Deranged male screamed at the 3yr old "you vermin, your bad people" before continuing a 7 min tirade of abuse @TFL Bus driver sadly took no action @MPSRTPC @MPSHackney
CHS 28280 19/01/23 pic.twitter.com/7TvwwRjPMu
— Shomrim (Stamford Hill) (@Shomrim) January 19, 2023

A group known as the “Web Estate Gang” has also been harassing a Jewish family for several months, the group has been reported in another update. The gang stole bicycles belonging to the Jewish families, pounded on their windows and doors, and trespassed on their property.

A total of 3,211 antisemitic hate crimes have been recorded in London since 2018, with incidents peaking in 2021, when there were 853. In December, there were 44 incidents, which rose slightly from the preceding month, when there were 43.

The new year has already witnessed a fresh wave of attacks on the Orthodox Jewish community in London, one of the largest in Europe. On Jan. 3, Shomrim, reported that a man entered a Jewish bakery and attempted to assault a Jewish woman after asking, “Are you Jewish?”

Such crimes represented a persistent threat to the quality of life throughout 2022, according to community groups.

In December, a man in the Stamford Hill stalked and assaulted an Orthodox Jewish woman. He followed her, shouting “Dirty Jew,” and then snatched her shopping bag, “spilling her shopping onto the pavement whilst laughing.”

NGO StopAntisemitism has been covering the fiasco on Twitter.

Life in London for Jew involves:

- Man shouts "I’m Adolf Hitler & I will kill the Jews” at a 13 year old girl on the subway pretending to shoot her w/his umbrella

- Jewish man walking home from Shabbat shul accosted by a with a large chain

- Woman shopping called "dirty Jew"
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 22, 2022

In August, a woman wielding a wooden stick approached a Jewish woman near the Seven Sisters area and declared “I am doing it because you are Jew,” while striking her over the head and pouring liquid on her. The next day, the same woman — described by an eyewitness as a “serial racist” — chased a mother and her baby with a wooden stick after spraying a liquid on the baby, and that same week, three people accosted a Jewish teenager and knocked his hat off his head while yelling “f****** Jew.”

Convictions of those who commit antisemitic hate crimes are scarce, with “too few cases” being brought before the courts, Dave Rich, Head of Policy at Community Security Trust (CST) wrote last February.

“The wheels of justice seem to be stuck,” he added.