A photographer and artist behind a red-triangle warning sign depicting the silhouette of an Orthodox Jewish man has apologised for causing offence after a Jewish neighbourhood watch group reported it as a hate crime. Allais said he intended the project to be a comment on identity and that the sign in Stamford Hill, one of the largest Hasidic communities in Europe, was not an antisemitic statement. He said: “It was a project about crossing the road … how everyone is different, everyone has an identity. Stamford Hill is at the centre of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish and mainly Hasidic community estimated to number about 30,000 people. Jonathan Savage (@JSavageTweets) Here's one of the other signs - put up in Egerton Road N16 pic.twitter.com/cnUcs12Xp9Hackney council was expected to remove the Stamford Hill sign on Wednesday.

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2017 09:37 UTC