The artist behind a sign that appeared to warn people to “Beware of Jews” has said he was “sorry for any offence caused”. Featuring a black silhouette of an Orthodox Jewish man inside a red-triangle warning, the sign was attached to lamppost in the north London district of Stamford Hill – known for its large Hassidic Jewish population.
Reported as a hate crime by a Jewish neighbourhood watch group, Scotland Yard said they were investigating the incident as a “religiously aggravated hate crime.”
Shadow Home Secretary and MP for Hackney North Diane Abbott called it was “disgusting” and “unacceptable”.
But Franck Allais, the man behind the sign, has come forward to claim the sign was part of an art project about “identity” and was not intended to be anti-Semitic.
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