from Religion Media Centre
The UK terrorism threat level has been raised to “severe”, following the attack in Golders Green when two Jewish men were stabbed in the street. Both are being treated in hospital and the suspected attacker is under arrest for attempted murder. The revised threat level means that an attack is highly likely in the next six months. Laurence Taylor, head of Counter Terrorism Policing, said: “The UK has been experiencing a gradual increase in terrorist threats for some time, driven by a rise in both Islamist and extreme right-wing terrorism. Our casework is increasing across a number of ideologies and within that we are seeing an elevated threat to Jewish and Israeli individuals and institutions in the UK.”
Keir Starmer jeered before unveiling new measures against antisemitism
The Prime Minister was jeered and heckled by angry and fearful members of the Jewish community in Golders Green when he visited yesterday morning, with a crowd holding banners saying “Keir Starmer – Jew Harmer”.
Later he met Jewish community leaders and ministers at Number Ten. Phil Rosenberg, president of the Board of Deputies, told Times Radio that they had forthright discussions with the government, which he said had not acted fast enough in the past: “Rather than protection, we need prevention. Rather than defence, we need attack. We need to get on the front foot against these people who are poisoning our society. Our community is angry and it’s anxious, not just for itself, but for the society we live in. We love this country and we see it being torn apart by extremists and racists. And we need to see that checked by the government, yes, by police, yes, but by society as a whole as well”.
After this, the Prime Minister announced tougher measures to stamp out antisemitism. Those who chant “globalise the intifada” will be prosecuted as this is “extreme racism”. Marching alongside people wearing pictures of paragliders, used by Hamas on the 7 October attack, is “venerating the murder of Jews”. Hate preachers will be prevented from entering Britain and there will be strong measures against the “malign influence of states like Iran”. He urged “everyone decent in this country to open their eyes to Jewish pain, Jewish suffering, and Jewish fear”.
Read also: Anti-Zionism is a menace to every Jew on Earth by Brendan O’Neill, spiked
I was a Jew in denial – until the Green Party made me confront a grim truth about Britain’s antisemitism by Tali Fraser, Conservative Home
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror by Ben Sixsmith, The Critic