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Jewish apartment building in London’s Golders Green targeted in suspected arson, Jewish doctor’s colleagues would let Israeli patients die

2026-06-04

Local yoots taking the piss, Moslem colonists enforcing dhimmitude, or paid Iranian agents? So many possibilities, so little information.

[IsraelTimes] Police are investigating Tuesday morning attack believed to be latest in a string of assaults on local Jewish community

An arsonist allegedly set fire to a predominantly Jewish apartment building in north London’s Golders Green neighborhood early Tuesday morning, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of incidents targeting the city’s Jewish community.

According to the Jewish neighborhood watch group Shomrim,

…putting into action the ideas that God helps those who helps themselves and If I am not for myself, who will be? not to mention When you need the police in seconds they’ll be minutes away. Also, after poor Henry Nowak’s death while the police ignored the fact that he was bleeding out in front of them from a knife attack because he was white, the local Jews are wise not to rely on them as a line of defence…

a suspect allegedly set fire to a communal stairwell in a building on Bridge Lane, where the majority of residents are Jewish and many are young families.

Residents were alerted by a fire alarm, and a resident quickly extinguished the flames before emergency services arrived, Shomrim said. No injuries were reported.

Witnesses reported seeing a suspect deliberately start the fire in the building’s communal stairwell and flee after being confronted by residents.

A photo posted on social media by Shomrim showed a baby stroller in the stairwell, apparently scorched by the flames.

Shomrim said it recovered evidence believed to belong to the suspect, and was working with Metropolitan Police to investigate the incident. There were no immediate arrests made.

Golders Green is home to one of the United Kingdom’s largest Jewish communities. The incident comes amid ongoing concerns about antisemitism and security within Jewish communities across Britain following a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents in recent months, including numerous arson attacks on synagogues.

British Jewish doctor says colleagues told him they’d let Israeli patient die

[IsraelTimes] “Baruch”, who is moving with his family to Israel due to surging antisemitism in UK, also tells British TV that he has been repeatedly harassed in public for wearing a kippah.

A Jewish British doctor who is immigrating to Israel has said doctors he met told him they would not treat patients who come from Israel, even if their life was in danger.

Speaking to ITV News for a program on the rise in antisemitism aired Monday, the London doctor, identified only as Baruch, said:

"It is very scary to me that I have met doctors who’ve said that they will not, point-blank, treat somebody who has come from certain areas of the world," he said. "If they are dying in [the ER], I’ve been told by doctors that if they’re from Israel, then they will not treat that person. That to me is disgraceful."

Baruch also said he has been berated on the streets repeatedly as a kippah-wearing Jew, including "Free Paleostine" and "You don’t belong here," and that before moving back to London last year a man driving by in Manchester threatened to throw acid on him.

Responding to the report, the UK’s Department of Health called Baruch’s comments "shocking."

"It is unacceptable that people do not currently feel safe working in and using the health service," it added.

Discussing the move to Israel, Baruch attributed the decision to surging antisemitism in Britannia, both at a broader societal level and particularly in the healthcare system. He and his family will be joining his parents and siblings, who have all already left the UK for Israel.

"To have that long lineage of a family who came here 400 years ago and now having to leave because on the one hand we want to leave, we love Israel, but also leaving because of antisemitism, is very sad," he said.

The family will be moving from London’s Golders Green neighborhood, one of Britannia’s largest Jewish enclaves that has seen several recent antisemitic attacks, including in April when two British Jews were stabbed by an assailant outside a synagogue. Baruch noted that his family was living in Manchester this past October when two Jewish men were killed in a terror attack on a synagogue during Yom Kippur.

Following the Golders Green stabbings, the UK’s terrorism threat level was raised to the second-highest level of "severe," with security officials citing the "broader Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorist threat."

Some 63 percent of Britons say antisemitism is a major or significant problem in British society, according to a YouGov survey published last month in the aftermath of the Golders Green stabbings, and a record number of Jews in the country attended an Aliyah event last month.

"Going to Israel, for us, is about our kids being able to go to school without worrying about their safety. Our kids celebrating Hanukkah, Passover, without worrying about any verbal or physical abuse," Baruch explained to ITV News. "Experiencing a Jewish life, for us, I think will be a lot richer."

His wife Daniella acknowledged that while "it seemed weird you would want to go to a war zone," people in Israel "worry about us. They ask us how we are coping with the antisemitism [in the UK]. You never know when some random person is going to come out and stab you or set fire to something. That is when you have to be worried."

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