At least three swastikas have been daubed in a playground in London’s Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill, the Jewish News reported as the leader of Britain’s Jewish community warned the British parliament over rising anti-Semitism in the country.

Board of Deputies Vice President Marie van der Zyl said:

“The daubing of Nazi symbols in a place where Jewish children study and play is an act of racism intended to spread fear and alarm,’’ said Marie van der Zyl, Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

‘’We hope the perpetrators will be apprehended and made to feel the full force of the law,” she added.

‘’In a week when the Board of Deputies has given evidence at the Home Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry into the rise of antisemitism, this is an example of one of the many threats Jewish community faces,’’ she said.

In a testimony before the Home Affairs Select Committee anti-Semitism hearing in the House of Commons, Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush warned that UK anti-Semitism could reach levels of France ‘’although anti-Jewish hate crime is nowhere near the levels seen in parts of mainland Europe.’’

He noted that Jewish institutions, including schools and synagogues, were forced to install 24-security systems and "look like fortresses" as a result of the ongoing threat of anti-Semitic violence.

The parliament hearing was held in the aftermath of an anti-Semitism scandal which engulfed the British Labour Party.

Arkush suggested that party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s “hostile opposition” to Israel and support for Palestinian causes had encouraged an anti-Jewish strain in his party.

"I think it’s mainly, as I said, the election of the leader who is associated with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with Stop the War, with a very, very hostile position on Israel, very well-known and well publicised," he said.

He criticised the Labour leader's decision to call terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah "friends" in parliament. "Someone who has thought it appropriate to meet here in the democratic mother of parliaments with terrorist organisations who’s stated mission in life is to kill as many Christians and Jews as possible, has clearly sent the wrong sort of message to some people.”

Arkush also slammed former Lond Mayor Ken Livingstone's Hitler remarks, telling the committee he was "horrified" by what he heard, which he described - along with other anti-Jewish comments by Labour officials - as a "historic calumny."

"It was not just the most absurd or ridiculous statement, it was a hateful thing to say."

Livingstone was suspended from the Labour Party in April following a row over his claim that Hitler was a supporter of Zionism — the creation of a Jewish homeland.

Arkush took on anti-Semites who dress their bigotry behind "criticism of Israel," noting that while it is of course possible to criticize Israeli policies without being anti-Semitic, the obsession with the only Jewish state in the world exhibited by individuals such as Livingstone was telling.