A man has been arrested after a Jewish family, including three young children, were subjected to anti-Semitic abuse on the London Underground.
The suspect was held in Birmingham on Saturday night on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated public order offence and remains in custody.
His arrest follows a video circulated widely online, which shows a man reading anti-Jewish bible passages to two young boys in skullcaps while they were travelling with their family on the Northern Line.
The man can also be seen threatening a man off-camera after he tries to intervene before a mother in a hijab – Asma Shuweikh – steps in.
The mother-of-two from London told the PA news agency she “wouldn’t hesitate to do it again”.
“I would have loved more people to come up and say something, because if everyone did, I do not think it would have escalated in the way that it did,” she said.
She explained that she knew she “had to confront him” as soon as she saw what was unfolding in front of her.
“Being a mother-of-two, I know what it’s like to be in that situation and I would want someone to help if I was in that situation,” she said.
By intervening, she said, she was hoping to deflect attention away from the couple and their three children who were being targets,
“I would want someone to help if I was in that situation””