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A worker cleaning an anti-Israel graffiti off a wall in Stamford Hill.
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LONDON (EJP)---Four synagogues across London have been daubed with anti-Jewish graffiti.
Residents were warned to look out for suspicious activity following the racist attack in north-east London.
According to the Evening Standard newspaper, vandals sprayed shops, pavements and walls outside four synagogues in Clapton Common and Stamford Hill with slogans such as "Jihad to Israel" and "Jihad to Tel Aviv."
The four synagogues attacked are Chasidey Belz Beth Hemedrash, Satmar Beth Hamedrash Yetev Lev, Aereth Zvi Beth Hamedrash and the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations.
David Greenwald, 20, from the Chasidey Belz Beth Hemedrash synagogue in Clapton Common, said the close-knit community was shocked.
"This morning I went to synagogue to pray and saw the writing all over everywhere - walls, shops, traffic lights," he said. "Everyone feels scared. Here we do not have any problem with Arabs - there has never been anything like this before, but now we are worried."
Another worshipper said: "It makes us feel that we are in exile. It could be kids doing it but even so, it shows something."
A spokesman for the Community Security Trust (CST), an organisation which looks after the safety of British Jews, told the British media: "We are already on a relatively high state of alert due to pronouncements by pro-al Qaeda supporters relating to attacks on Jews, and this adds to the picture of threat."
Brian Coleman, a member of the London Assembly for Barnet and Camden said that "this anti-Semitism is a worrying trend and cannot be tolerated."
"I will be asking the Mayor of London to work closely with the Community Security Trust) ensure that he can do everything possible to stop these attacks."