A Starbucks in Whitechapel was firebombed yesterday in what police think is the latest in a series of anti-Semitic attacks.

The coffee shop's Chief executive Howard Schultz is Jewish, and cops are treating the incident as racially motivated.

A manager was trapped inside and saw the intruders smashing their way into the building on Whitechapel Road as they hurled a petrol bomb at the front window.

There have been several 'hate' incidents in East London which have included sick anti-Semitic graffiti, believed to be linked to protests over Israel’s operations in Gaza.

Asian gang attack Tesco driver

Just four hours earlier, a gang of Asian youths hurled a brick at a Tesco delivery van half-a-mile away, and then attacked the driver as he drove through Canon Street Road. The 45-year-old driver was later treated for a head injury and needed seven stitches.

Cops confirmed the youths were Asian, who were wearing dark tops and may have been seen outside a fast food restaurant earlier.

'Kill Jews'

The new Tesco Metro supermarket in Stepney Green’s Commercial Road was also targeted at the weekend when several windows were smashed and the words ‘kill Jews’ was daubed in paint.

A similer slogan was on the wall of a children’s playground on Whitechapel’s Chicksand housing estate last week.

Priest attacked

Last year a group of Asian thugs battered a priest outside his own church nearby in Shadwell, and earlier a brick was thrown through the church window during mass as youths screamed 'this should be a mosque not a church.' Rev Alan Green, Dean of Tower Hamlets claimed there were 'faith hate' incidents in east London every month.