by Andrey Bulkin
[REGNUM] Recently, an attack on members of the Jewish community occurred in London, resulting in two injuries. The perpetrator was arrested.
The crime was quickly labelled as a terrorist attack and attempts were made to shift the blame onto Iran, while in fact the episode, which was just one of many similar ones in recent times, reveals serious problems in British society.
| Both can be true, since Iranian agents hired locals to commit the attacks. |
The morning of April 29th in Golders Green, northwest London, one of the main centers of the British Jewish community, began like a typical weekday. At 11:15 a.m., CCTV cameras on Highfield Avenue captured a man with a backpack jogging along the sidewalk.
Within seconds, he attacked a passerby and chased him, disappearing from view. The next video, captured by a car's dashcam, showed the same man pursuing the fleeing man along a busy street. And at 11:20 a.m., a camera near a bus stop captured him stabbing a man wearing a traditional Jewish yarmulke, then pushing the victim into the street.
Fortunately, the victims survived. 76-year-old Moshe Schein remains in the hospital. 34-year-old Shlomo Rand, who was discharged from the hospital the following day, told the BBC that the attacker "simply stabbed him in the chest" as he walked down the street, unaware of any danger.
Footage released by Scotland Yard showed officers using a Taser, being forced to literally knock a knife out of the hands of the still-resisting attacker. He turned out to be 45-year-old Somali native Esse Suleiman, who moved to Britain in the 1990s and legally obtained citizenship. Despite initial allegations of a terrorist attack, he has not yet been charged with terrorism-related offenses.
"We have authorised the bringing of two charges of attempted murder and one charge of possession of a bladed weapon against Esse Suleiman," said Crown Prosecution Service spokesman Frank Ferguson.
The authorities unsuccessfully attempted to attribute the incident to Tehran's machinations. Police said they were investigating the "Iranian theory," Reuters reports. However, the attempt to find a scapegoat proved rather clumsy. It's hard to imagine Iran, which has endured a brutal month of war and is embroiled in a complex negotiating process with the United States, wasting resources on orchestrating high-profile assassinations in London.
| But they aren’t orchestrating high profile assassinations, merely molotov cocktails against buildings and knife attacks against random passers by of a certain type. Both of which Moslem colonists, among others, commit every day. |
The real reasons are much deeper, and that's why they're being so diligently covered up. "People are scared, and this is taking things to a whole new level," said Shlomo Rand, one of the victims.
"COMPLACENCY AND COWARDICE"
This is far from the first such attack. And responsibility lies not only with the perpetrator himself, but also with the British government and political establishment, which for years cultivated a permissive attitude that eventually escalated into open aggression.
| Also true, to Britain’s shame. |
And these are only the most high-profile cases; smaller incidents occur far more frequently: a Molotov cocktail is thrown through a synagogue window at night, or the cars of a Jewish charity are set on fire. "It's shocking to hear and see such things, but it doesn't come as a surprise," said a London resident, commenting on the increasing incidence of hate crimes.
These statements are convincingly confirmed by statistics. Since the outbreak of the conflict between Israel and Palestine in 2023, the number of anti-Semitic attacks in the UK has increased significantly. According to the British charity Community Security Trust, 1,662 incidents were recorded in 2022, and 4,298 in 2023. In 2024, the number of incidents decreased to 3,556, and in 2025, it rose again to 3,700 attacks.
According to The Guardian, a study conducted last year found that approximately 32% of British Jews had personally experienced acts of antisemitism, and 35% said they did not feel safe. Immediately after the attack on October 7, 2023, which killed over a thousand people in Israel, mass protests erupted on the streets of British cities.
| Not just British cities. |
Former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman described the situation as a "fatal combination of complacency and cowardice," which left politicians, including the Prime Minister and mayors, "panicked to the point of offending certain communities." Former Housing, Communities, and Local Government Secretary Michael Gove agreed. He said one would have to be "a fool" to fail to notice how numerous aggressive marches were creating an unhealthy atmosphere in society.
It is curious, of course, that such statements are being made by two ministers who were directly responsible for what happened, but that is British policy, and it is really difficult to argue with them here.
Since October 2023, more than 3,500 people have been detained at pro-Palestinian marches in London alone, but only a handful have been charged with inciting hatred or justifying terrorism, the BBC notes. Meanwhile, according to the Henry Jackson Society, anti-Semitic views are widespread among Muslims in the UK, about half of whom were born in the UK.
Forty-six percent of British Muslims believe that Jews have excessive influence on government policy, compared to only 16% of the British public overall. Additionally, 41% of Muslims surveyed believe that Jews are overly influential in the media industry, and 39% believe that Jews exert significant influence in the financial system. And instead of taking firm action to curb the radicalization of a segment of the population, the government has opted for a vague mixture of appeasement and non-interference.
In this regard, another recollection from the former Home Secretary is very revealing. Braverman recounted how London Police Chief Mark Rowley, speaking about anti-Jewish protests in the capital, compared police actions during demonstrations to maintaining order at football matches.
"We don't allow Liverpool fans near Everton fans, as that's a recipe for disaster. We're diverting the first group one way, and the second group the other," he said. "This is more serious than a football match," the minister retorted, but it fell on deaf ears—the police continued to turn a blind eye to calls for murder and assault.
As a result, this approach eventually backfired with a wave of violence that swept Britain. The "see no evil" tactic created a sense of complete impunity among those who decided to move from words to knives and Molotov cocktails.
COMPLIANCE OF "GOOD PEOPLE"
Life in the new British reality is eloquently described in a BBC report published just days before the recent attack. One of its subjects, 47-year-old Amanda from a quiet London suburb, who has worn a Star of David pendant for years, is now afraid to wear it openly for fear of becoming another victim. She's already been spat at in the street and called a "child killer."
Jews have faced hostility before, but now the issue is no longer about attitude, but about safety. According to Amanda, in a group on one of her messaging apps, which includes about 20 of her Jewish friends, many of whom are the children or grandchildren of refugees from Germany who once saw Britain as a refuge from Nazism, instead of the typical neighborhood topics, they now discuss options for moving to other countries. "I don't know a single Jew who doesn't have plans to leave," she says.
| History shows what happens to countries that drive out their Jews. Spain, for instance used to be one of the richest countries in the world. Now? They do still have delicious food, but they have not been thriving in a very long time. |
What threat does this pose to the country? Former Foreign Office official Nick Fishwick bluntly states that anti-Semitism is a "threat to Britain's national security, " as the escalating crisis not only threatens the Jewish community but also undermines the foundations of statehood, demonstrating the impotence of a leadership incapable of protecting one group of the population.
| Not to mention that the same people who threaten Jews gleefully go after Christians, local girls, schoolchildren, the elderly… It is never just the Jews. |
This timidity has already set a sad precedent: the UK's national terror threat level has been raised to "serious" – level four out of five possible – not only because of Islamists, but also because of the rise of right-wing extremism, fuelled by that same impunity.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to root out the hatred that fueled the attacks, but he's no longer trusted. When he arrived at the scene in Golders Green, he was greeted with signs reading "Kier Starmer, Jew Harmer." This means that trust in the government, already low in Britain, continues to erode.
Endless words of condolence and pat promises no longer provide comfort.
| Indeed. |
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