{"id":542116,"date":"2026-04-21T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:29:08","slug":"u-k-police-arrest-two-teens-over-thugs-for-hire-jewish-site-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542116\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. police arrest two teens over &#8216;thugs for hire&#8217; Jewish site attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      London \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>U.K. police said Monday they had arrested two teenagers after the latest arson attack on sites including Jewish ones in London, bringing the number of arrests for six incidents to 15.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Jukes, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the new arrests came amid a pattern of &#8220;thugs for hire&#8221; as the United Kingdom sees &#8220;the pressure of hostile states bearing into our communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In parliament, Security Minister Dan Jarvis denounced violence against British Jews as &#8220;an attack on all of us,&#8221; pledging to &#8220;do whatever it takes to stop the cowards and the thugs who seek to intimidate our Jewish communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London \u2013 U.K. police said Monday they had arrested two teenagers after the latest arson attack on sites&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[79930,59,57,58,388,50,3962,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-arson","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-london","tag-news","tag-u-k","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}