#terrorist attack

लंदन, प्रधान मंत्री कीर स्टार्मर ने ईरान को चेतावनी दी कि ब्रिटिश समाज के भीतर विभाजन को बढ़ावा देने के प्रयासों को “बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जाएगा”, क्योंकि उन्होंने मंगलवार को लंदन में यहूदी विरोधी भावना से निपटने के लिए एक शिखर सम्मेलन की मेजबानी की। ब्रिटिश समाज को विभाजित करने के प्रयासों को बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जाएगा: ब्रिटेन के प्रधानमंत्री स्टार्मर ने ईरान से कहा 10 डाउनिंग स्ट्रीट में अपनी…

Will Godley: I’m joined now by Rabbi Doron Birnbaum. Thank you for joining us on GB News. Firstly, we’ll get on to the Prime Minister and his visit here this afternoon. But I just want to ask you about when you first heard about this attack that took place yesterday. Where were you?

Doron Birnbaum: Sure, Will. I mean, I’ve just come back as a rabbi and educator who has been in high school, one of the big schools in the Jewish community. For the last four days, we’ve had 90 Jewish students in Poland, in places like Tarnow and Krakow, where you’d have a bustling Jewish community like what you can see around Golders Green. There is nothing left anymore. We visited mass graves of children. We visited camps in Majdanek. And yesterday, as we were in Auschwitz, the largest Jewish cemetery in the world, where 1.3 million of our brothers and sisters were murdered, I was in a barrack called the latrines. It’s where they used to supposedly allow the Jewish women to go to the toilet if ever allowed. My phone pings, and I get a message that two Jewish people have been stabbed in Golders Green, minutes from my home.

And out of respect, I step outside the barracks. And I’m in Auschwitz, and I want people to understand this. Because sometimes in numbers we miss the personal narrative. Everyone’s got a family WhatsApp group. As a Jew, I go on to my family WhatsApp group, and I ask, are you okay? Are my family still alive? I get pictures and videos from the community. I zoom in at the bodies, the legs, the clothes that can be seen, to try and identify, is that my own family? And every single Jew in our community did that yesterday.

By: Frederick Alexander

Published: May 1, 2026

Imagine you’re a tourist in Vietnam, enjoying a bowl of noodles in the hostel’s little restaurant. A couple of tables across from you is a Chinese couple, travellers like you. You realise they’re Chinese only when two women nearby, having spotted a tattoo on the woman’s arm, demand to know where they’re from. The tone of the women is sharp, then hostile, then hectoring. From the accent, you guess they’re British. As the embarrassed Chinese couple get up to leave mid-meal, the women throw taunts and accusations of depravity and murder at them, making the couple complicit in China’s “genocide” of Uyghur Muslims. The other travellers sit rooted to their chairs, hoping the scene will quickly pass.

It’s hard to imagine this happening anywhere, let alone in a little corner of Southeast Asia – two British women haranguing a Chinese couple for their apparent crimes against the Uyghur Muslims. What a strange and unlikely scene this would be.

But of course, the couple weren’t Chinese, they were Israeli – identified by an Israel-shaped tattoo – and the cause wasn’t the Uyghur Muslims but Palestine. Suddenly, even a thousand miles away in an unlikely locale, none of this seems far-fetched but all too familiar, so inured have we become to the eruptions of Jew hatred.

“We’re just the goyim, aren’t we?” says one of the women. There it is. She knows the vocabulary well; she’s rehearsed these lines for just such an occasion. “Say you’re against Netanyahu!” insists one of the women. “What about Ben Gvir?” says the other. They can’t believe their luck, and on holiday no less – an Israeli couple on whom they can perform all the antisemitic tropes: “You’re monsters. You’re savages… A hundred and ten countries you’ve been thrown out”. Nobody steps in, nobody urges restraint. The Israeli couple make their way out of the restaurant at last. “Look at them…rats running away… Go on rats. Murderers. Murderers. Savages. Monsters. Genocidal”.

We know this is how it happened because one of the women recorded it on her mobile phone and later uploaded it to social media. That says something in itself. Because you can’t imagine this happening following any other kind of racism. Not towards a Chinese couple or an Indian one. If it had been a black couple, the incident would likely never have taken place – even a dyed-in-the-wool white supremacist would pause, and if he uploaded any incident of the sort, it would be in private to a group of fellow racists. The costs are too high.

Antisemitism is different. One of these women uploaded the video to social media for all to see. I’m quite sure she did so with pride. Because far from being racist, they likely viewed this as a moral achievement – one that took courage and conviction. If they had any regrets, it was probably that they didn’t get around to chanting “from the river to the sea,” although I doubt they could have put a name to either. Geography is an irrelevant detail when the borders that matter are the ones that divide good from evil, the oppressor from the oppressed. This is what hatred feels like when it feels like virtue.

They didn’t arrive at these beliefs independently, of course. The world’s oldest hatred filtered through numberless versions over countless centuries in which societies have formed certain ideals and defined them in opposition to what they consider “Jewish”. As Dara Horn puts it, referencing David Nirenberg’s research:

“If piety was a given society’s ideal, Jews were impious blasphemers; if secularism was the ideal, Jews were backward pietists. If capitalism was evil, Jews were capitalists; if communism was evil, Jews were communists. If nationalism was glorified, Jews were rootless cosmopolitans; if nationalism was vilified, Jews were chauvinistic nationalists. ‘Anti-Judaism’ thus becomes a righteous fight to promote justice. This dynamic forces Jews into the defensive mode of constantly proving they are not evil, and even simply that they have a right to exist.”

The trope is infinitely adaptable; only the hatred stays constant. And in that consciousness, like malware passed from one age to another, lies the permission to hate: antisemitism recast as a righteous act of resistance against evil.

The Soviets – who could master propaganda in a way they could never muster a successful society – did more than anyone in recent history to rebrand Zionism as “racism” and “colonialism”, exporting this messaging to the developing world and ultimately to the DEI industry in the United States and from there into nearly every university department in the West.3 Qatar and Al Jazeera have since done more than anyone to propagate and finance the operation.

The scene in the restaurant is the end product of all this. Here are two women who have downloaded the full ideological toolkit from a progressive class whose "polite" dinner-party antisemitism repackages the world's oldest hatred in the oppressor/oppressed framework, making righteous hatred feel legitimate in the 21st century. But it's the Islamists that provide the raw power and endless newsfeed of suffering, some of it real, some of it fabricated. And it's the Islamists who take it to the streets, calling violence "resistance" and murder "justice".

Glastonbury Festival put it to music in 2025 while the BBC filmed it for the nation. “Death, death to the IDF” chanted punk-rap duo Bob Vylan while a thousand middle-class festivalgoers joined in like a gruesome karaoke in the fields of Somerset – a ritual of moral self-congratulation with Palestinian suffering providing the emotional kick. The BBC saw no reason to edit it out because they didn’t hear a racist chant but urgent clarity expressed by like-minded people, high on a feeling of righteousness.

Bob Vylan issued a statement shortly after. “We are not for the death of Jews, Arabs or any other race or group of people,” they wrote on Instagram, now carefully substituting “dismantling” for “death” – a word that presumably tested better with the lawyers. “We are for the dismantling of a violent military machine.” Perhaps those women in the restaurant, who called the Israeli couple rats, were also just dismantling a violent military machine. Or maybe they no longer know the difference because the issues are already complex enough, and sometimes “monsters” does the job.

The Glastonbury death chants were sinister, evoking something dystopian, something alien to the society we thought we knew. In Orwell’s 1984, the state organises a daily ritual called the Two Minutes Hate. Party members come together before a screen, faces contorted with rage, screaming at a singular enemy in an ecstasy of denunciation. Winston Smith, who privately resists everything the Party stands for, joins in at first out of pretence – but then finds himself overtaken by the same urge, which is contagious, delirious, and purifying.

What must it be like to be a Jew in the West today? To have been told from the earliest age that your history is the darkest of all histories, that the evils of the past are stepping boldly once more into the present. To see politicians adopt their practised solemnity at the latest atrocity and the media rolling out exhausted clichés. “An attack on one is an attack on all of us,” they say. “Hate has no place in Britain”. “This is not who we are as a country”.

But hate evidently does have a place in Britain, and this is who we are as a country, at least in parts of it. The clichés and platitudes can no longer hide the fact.

On a pro-Palestinian march through London not too long ago, a kippah-wearing man came face to face with a British police officer. “You are quite openly Jewish,” scolded the latter, as if to preempt any blame for the antisemitic violence that might follow.

At some point in his life, that man in the kippah would have read Anne Frank’s diary, probably as a child at school, as so many of us did. He might have wondered as a boy what it takes for a civilised society to force its Jewish population into hiding, then hunt them down and finally kill them. Perhaps he closed the book, saddened but convinced that those evils, decades in the past, were safely locked away and unrepeatable. After all, civilised society had agreed: never again.

By: Stephen Knight

Published: Apr 30, 2026

In the UK earlier today an adult male was arrested after the stabbing of two Jews in the Golders Green area of London. The attack has been declared a ‘terror incident’ by the police and investigations are ongoing.

Video showing the suspect being apprehended by police was posted to social media. You can watch the moment in question below:

The video shows two police officers, with the help of an unidentified third party, attempt to wrestle control of the attacker's hands. The attacker is on the floor, he appears to have been tasered and he is refusing to comply with loud commands of “drop the knife!”.

Five swift kicks are dealt to the attacker's head until his arms can be forced out from under his body so the deadly weapon can be eventually pried from his grip.

Normally, you'd expect this would be an opportunity for the general public to commend the bravery and success with which officers incapacitated a Jew-stabbing terror suspect armed with a deadly weapon. But these aren't normal times.

Although ‘dumbest take imaginable’ was a highly contested category, I feel Shola Mos-Shogbamimu just about edged 1st prize.

Beyond role of professional race-baiter, I'm not actually sure what Shola does besides having a talent for producing the worst takes on current events imaginable. I've written about this before.

Shola posted the following on ‘X’ : “Contemptible abuse of police power. Why kick him in the head several times when he’s already tasered & in your control? Should he not be alive to be brought to justice in a court of law for stabbing 2 Jews??!! Disgusting”.

We'll just let go for a moment the easy point that the suspect was in fact taken in ‘alive’ by the police. Of course, had the suspect been face down and in cuffs, a good kicking (although tempting) would absolutely be an ‘abuse of police power’.

But in the real world, police were faced with a terror suspect in possession of a deadly weapon. A weapon that mere moments earlier was being plunged into the necks of innocent Jews, so his willingness to use it was beyond doubt.

Police attempted use of non-lethal force in the form of a taser (more on that in a moment). The suspect still refused to drop the knife. This set of circumstances poses what sane people understand to constitute ‘an immediate threat to life’.

Commands were not being followed and use of a taser had failed, meaning further reasonable force was justified as a last resort. Many seem to believe police tasers are magic wands that cast spells, instantly and permanently immobilising their target. Or that they are even so effective that the suspect was physically incapable of dropping his weapon. None of this is true.

Whilst incredibly useful as a form of non-lethal force, tasers operate for five seconds at a time. They stun their targets. If someone manages to keep hold of their weapon whilst this is happening to them, it's because they intended to. And if you don't quite buy that, then you still have to explain why the suspect would not drop his bladed weapon in between these five second zaps.

It's also worth pointing out that an armed response was almost certainly on the way to the scene. And had an armed response encountered the suspect first, found him to be in possession of a deadly weapon and non-compliant, they would have taken him out without hesitation. He should consider himself very, very lucky to have only received a boot to his bonce today rather than a bullet.

There are many reasons I could not do what our police force do, but I think chief amongst them would be to witness the certainty with which professional know-nothings sit comfortably behind their keyboard, demonstrating their complete ignorance of violent confrontation with a deadly weapon—whilst throwing scorn at those that risk everything to keep us safe from it.

They seem to be advocating for a form of policing whereby Jew-stabbing terror suspects are handed additional opportunities to stab more people in the neck. This option is somehow more palatable to them than a few swift kicks to the head of a murderous lunatic.

I was on a panel in 2023 where I spoke about the dangers of antisemitism and warned how much worse it would get. I'm utterly depressed to be right and feel nothing but shame that Jews are attacked and made to feel unsafe in their own country.

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