A Transport for London (TfL) supervisor refused to remove pro-Palestinian graffiti and said there should be "more of it" following a complaint about the vandalism, according to a Friday statement by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).
The pro-Israel organization said that the incident took place in August of this year, and that the passenger, after seeing that a “Service Information” board was covered with the words "Free Palestine," attempted to report the vandalism at Bank Station, but didn't find any staff members present.
The passenger decided to report the vandalism at Liverpool Street Station via a friend who had gone there. There, the friend was met by a TfL supervisor and another staff member, who greeted her with “hostile and confrontational” behavior. The former reportedly wore a “Palestine Solidarity” badge featuring the Palestinian flag, according to the UKLFI statement.
UKLFI added that the supervisor declined to take any action to remove the graffiti and instead said that there should be more like it.
The lawyer's group later reported the incident to TfL, noting that the supervisor's conduct was "intentionally behaved in an inappropriate, rude, insulting and hateful manner to a customer."
Orthodox Jewish man racially abused days prior
The incident with the TfL supervisor came a few days after a bus driver in London was suspended after racially abusing an Orthodox Jewish man before locking him inside the vehicle.
The victim of the abuse, David Abraham, was on his way home from synagogue in Stamford Hill, he told The Jewish Chronicle, adding that his bus card slipped from his hand and fell into the driver's cabin, with the driver refusing to return it and saying, "I don't want to see a Mossad agent in my face... I don't like Jewish people.”
TfL said that the driver's conduct was "unacceptable" and that the Metropolitan Police said the incident was reported as a hate crime, the BBC reported.
Abraham was shut inside the bus for about an hour, the British public-service broadcaster added. Abraham also told the broadcaster that the bus driver refused to open his door to allow officers who arrived at the scene to collect Abraham's card.
No arrests have been made, and an investigation was opened.