Golders Green stabbing

Our ‘normal’ Jewish life: security outside schools, police patrols and hiding your kippot

What happened in Golders Green stayed with me not because it was the first time something like that had happened – it unfortunately was not – but because of how predictable everything around it felt

By Lottie Cannon

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Police officers at the junction of Golders Green Road and the North Circular Road following a stabbing attack in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Images: Getty)

Tom Holland, JK Rowling and Boy George (Images: Getty)

Golders Green stabbing

JK Rowling, Tom Holland and Boy George: the allies rallying around the Jewish community with strength and love

By JC Reporter

3 min read

Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks during a meeting with civic leaders to discuss tackling antisemitism at Downing Street on May 5, 2026. (Image: Getty)

By The JC Leader

If this marks a genuine turning point, Britain and its Jewish community can yet forge a different future

3 min read

Metropolitan Police

Met announces new task force to protect Jewish community following Golders Gren stabbing

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

A billboard featuring Iran's late supreme leaders Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (L) and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C) next to newly elected supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei in Srinagar on April 27, 2026 (Getty Images)

Golders Green stabbing

Iranian regime celebrates stabbings of Jews in London as ‘revolutionary’ attack

By Ali Hamedani

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President of the Union of Jewish Students, Louis Danker, speaks during a meeting with civic leaders to discuss tackling antisemitism at Downing Street on May 5, 2026. (Image: Getty)

UJS

Where has anti-racist civil society gone when it comes to the fight against antisemitism?

By Louis Danker

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Golders Green stabbing

‘I wanted to save a life’, says Iranian-born hero who blocked Golders Green attacker

By Jamie Shapiro

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By Stephen Pollard

Expecting ‘anti-racists’ to police anti-Israel hate marches they themselves organise is dangerously naive

If you turned up at a protest and were shocked to discover that, say, ten per cent of your fellow protesters were carrying antisemitic banners or chanting such slogans, would you stay?

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May 4, 2026 12:44

Protesters march along Whitehall, London (Image: Getty)

Polanski disagrees with calls for focus on Muslim antisemitism

The Green Party leader was being interviewed by Trevor Phillips on Sky News

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

May 4, 2026 10:56

Zack Polanski being interviewed on Sky News (Image: Sky News/Youtube screenshot)

By Jake Wallis Simons

Who’s to blame for antisemitism? The Jews, of course

That’s the clear and ancient message of a former ambassador’s letter to The Times this weekend.

4 min read

May 4, 2026 10:24

Police in Golders Green at the scene of the stabbing on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

By Sir Mark Rowley

The Met will do everything to protect the Jewish community – but only wider society can tackle the disease of antisemitism

What troubles me most is that this is not confined to a fringe of racists. This hatred draws on something deeper, more embedded – and for far too long it has gone unchallenged

4 min read

May 3, 2026 13:25

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speaks with members of the Jewish community at the scene where two people were stabbed on April 29, 2026 in Golders Green (Image: Getty)

British Jewry at a ‘breaking point’ following Golders Green attack

The knife attack will be the ‘final straw’ for many, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism has said

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read

May 3, 2026 12:18

Lord John Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism

By Simone Rodan-Benzaquen

My son wants to study in London, as I once did – but Britain’s failure to protect its Jews gives me pause

The UK should have been Europe’s most resilient country – with its integrated Jewish community and proud rule-of-law tradition – yet it’s squandering those advantages faster than any other

9 min read

May 3, 2026 11:45

Anti-Israel students and protesters demonstrate outside the London School of Economics (Image: Getty)

By Sarah Tetteh

The grotesque comparison of the Golders Green attacker to George Floyd

By mischaracterising the knifeman as a victim of police brutality, those in positions of power have diverted attention from Britain’s real crisis: racist attacks on Jews

3 min read

May 3, 2026 09:52

By Jonathan Harounoff

I was in Golders Green when normalcy was shattered by the attack – how will Britain respond to this war on Jews?

What happened is only the latest outbreak of a virulent hatred that threatens the community but also the country as a whole

3 min read

May 1, 2026 15:47

By Sir Michael Ellis

If police allow drawings depicting baby-eating Jews, how can they tackle Britain’s antisemitism crisis?

There are effective options under the law when ‘art’ crosses the line, even in our liberal democracy

3 min read

May 1, 2026 15:29

One of the drawings from the art exhibition in Margate

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Golders Green stabbing

Our ‘normal’ Jewish life: security outside schools, police patrols and hiding your kippot

JK Rowling, Tom Holland and Boy George: the allies rallying around the Jewish community with strength and love

If this marks a genuine turning point, Britain and its Jewish community can yet forge a different future

Met announces new task force to protect Jewish community following Golders Gren stabbing

Iranian regime celebrates stabbings of Jews in London as ‘revolutionary’ attack

Where has anti-racist civil society gone when it comes to the fight against antisemitism?

‘I wanted to save a life’, says Iranian-born hero who blocked Golders Green attacker

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British Jewry at a ‘breaking point’ following Golders Green attack

My son wants to study in London, as I once did – but Britain’s failure to protect its Jews gives me pause

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