Golders Green stabbing

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

By Sarah Tetteh

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

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 (Image: Getty)

By Jonathan Harounoff

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

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One of the drawings from the art exhibition in Margate

By Sir Michael Ellis

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

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Local residents look on from outside a cordoned off area in the Golders Green following stabbing (Photo: Getty Images)

Golders Green stabbing

‘We can’t stop terror, but we can seek to control our response’

By Naomi Lerer

3 min read

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley makes a statement to media in Golders Green, April 29, 2026 (Credit: JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP via Getty Images)

Golders Green stabbing

Met chief blasts Polanski for posting ‘misinformed commentary’ over arrest of Golders Green terror suspect

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

By Lord Hannan

An eye-blink ago, Britain was a different nation. Now, Jews are no longer safe and civic order is fraying

3 min read

Pro-Palestine protest in London (Image: Getty Images)

Pro-Palestine protests

Pro-Palestine protests could be banned in wake of Golders Green attack

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

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Golders Green suspect charged with attempted murder after stabbing attack

One of the victims, Shloime Rand, has now been discharged from hospital

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

May 1, 2026 10:04

Police in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty Images)

By The JC Leader

Golders Green attacks turn next week’s elections into a test of Britain’s resolve on antisemitism

Voters now have a chance to stand with the Jewish community by rejecting sectarian candidates campaigning on hostility to Israel, who inflame rather than inform, and who divide rather than govern

3 min read

May 1, 2026 09:56

A Police forensics officer photographs the crime scene in Golders Green on April 29, 2026 (Image: Getty)

Jewish and Muslim women join interfaith solidarity walk to site of terror attack

‘We have to remember that loud, angry, divisive hatred is not the majority’

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

April 30, 2026 22:25

Leading the women's interfaith solidarity walk (Photo: Gaby Wine)

UK security services doing ‘huge amount’ to protect British Jews, Starmer tells JC

The prime minister says he understands the concerns of protesters who heckled his visit to Hatzola.

By Lorin Bell-Cross

3 min read

April 30, 2026 16:01

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets first responders from Shomrim North West during a visit to Golders Green on April 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

Angry crowd gathers in Golders Green chanting ‘enough is enough’

Jews and non-Jews gathered in an emotional protest following the terror attack

By Jamie Shapiro

4 min read

April 30, 2026 15:56

Max Royston from Stop The Hate (Image: Elliott Franks)

Reform would expel Iranian ambassador, Farage tells JC

He also claimed to have received ‘intel’ that pro-regime activists have entered Britain by small boat in recent days

By Lorin Bell-Cross

2 min read

April 30, 2026 15:42

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage meets members of Shomrim in Golders Green on April 30, 2026 (Getty Images)

‘Globalise the intifada’ chant is ‘extreme racism’, says Starmer in Golders Green statement

The prime minister reiterated the government’s plans to ‘fast-track' legislation to proscribe ‘malign state actors’ in the coming weeks

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

April 30, 2026 15:07

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a press statement on the Golders Green stabbing attack on April 30, 2026 (BBC News)

Chief Rabbi right that visible Jews are not safe, Golders Green MP tells JC

Justice Minister Sarah Sackman said she will hold her children’s hands ‘that little bit tighter’ when they go to shul in the wake of the stabbing attack

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

April 30, 2026 13:27

Sarah Sackman, Labour Finchley and Golders Green MP, stands next to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley as he makes a statement to the media at the scene where two people were stabbed on April 29, 2026 (Getty Images)

Anti-racists march for Palestine every week. Where are they when Jews are hunted on British streets?

Many UK Muslim groups and imams show weak leadership – and in some cases outright spinelessness – when it comes to confronting and rejecting Islamism

By Fiyaz Mughal

2 min read

April 30, 2026 13:23

Police cordon in the Golders Green neighbourhood of north London, on April 29, 2026, after two people were stabbed, and a suspect arrested. (Image: Getty)

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Golders Green stabbing

The grotesque comparison of the Golders Green attacker to George Floyd

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

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

‘We can’t stop terror, but we can seek to control our response’

Met chief blasts Polanski for posting ‘misinformed commentary’ over arrest of Golders Green terror suspect

An eye-blink ago, Britain was a different nation. Now, Jews are no longer safe and civic order is fraying

Pro-Palestine protests could be banned in wake of Golders Green attack

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