Havering Council announced on Thursday that the annual Menorah lighting ceremony outside the town hall would be paused over concerns that the candelabrum would be vandalised.
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The council wrote in the statement: “Sadly, there are some who are politicising this and making accusations of antisemitism. This is categorically untrue."