YouTuber terrorised Jewish communities by throwing money to make ‘Jew traps’
An influencer has been accused of filming a campaign of antisemitic content harassing Jewish communities in north London.
Harry Marsh, known online as Penofein, performed sick stunts across Stamford Hill, garnering millions of views.
In one video, he throws loose change on the floor of a Stamford Hill suburb calling it a ‘Jew trap’.
He then films unsuspecting members of the Jewish community walking past to see if they interact with it. The short clip racked up 1.4million views on YouTube alone.
In another ‘prank’ entitled ‘Rizzing up Jewish women’, he asks a random Jewish woman for her phone number. When she refuses, he chases her holding out pound coins.
Penofein also films himself ‘taming Jews’ by chasing one young boy with change in his hands, yelling ‘Here boy’, and breaking into fits of laughter.
His most popular video, on 17million views, sees him approaching an Orthodox Jewish man and asking ‘Excuse me sir, would you like a pound or should I double it and give it to the next person?’
When the victim accepts the money, he wanders off mumbling ‘Well, well, well’. In another, he pretends to be hungry and begs a man for a pound.
Rooting around in his pockets to give him change, Marsh thanks him saying ‘God bless you, sir.
But as he walks away, he says under his breath: ‘A Jew just gave me money, what kind of a f***** society are we living in?’
Chillingly, his videos featuring ‘stunts’ on Jewish people seem to attract around ten times as many views as any of his other content.
His Instagram and TikTok accounts have since been deleted but his YouTube channel is still up at the time of publication.
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His most recent video, sees Marsh opening a Sussex Police order banning him from filming in shops.
He tells his 40,000 YouTube subscribers ‘I got this community protection notice from the Sussex Police basically means I can’t film in shops for like 12 months.
‘I don’t know, bro, they treat me like I’m Pablo Escobar, it’s outrageous.’
He added: ‘It doesn’t really affect me too bad because it’s not really the type of content I’m making at the moment anyways.
‘Just public interviews, public content, you know what I’m saying?’
His videos were uncovered by media monitoring teams at volunteer anti-racist groups.
A spokesman for Campaign Against Antisemitism asked why social media companies like YouTube and Instagram were still hosting his content.
He told Metro: ‘This user has built a following by subjecting Jewish people to antisemitic pranks.
‘To our knowledge, he doesn’t live locally, so he literally travels to Jewish areas in order to racially abuse them and excite his deranged followers.
‘It says a lot about our youth that this sort of behaviour engages them.’
He added: ‘The police have prevented him from filming in commercial establishments, but they have brushed off complaints about his racist harassment of Jews.
‘Even he has mocked the authorities by pointing out that street antics – aimed at Jews – is his main focus now anyway.
‘Why is YouTube continuing to host him, and why have Sussex Police done nothing to address his conduct toward Jewish people?’
Meta and the Metropolitan Police have been approached for comment.
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