LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) – Police declared the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London on Wednesday a terrorist incident, the latest in \u200ca series of attacks targeting Britain’s Jewish community since a deadly \u200cassault on a Manchester synagogue last year.<\/p>\n
Below is a timeline of key incidents, including several in \u200bthe Golders Green area of north London, which is home to a large Jewish population:<\/p>\n
April 29 – Police declare a terrorist incident after two men are stabbed in the street by a 45-year-old man in Golders Green.<\/p>\n
April 27 – A suspected arson attack \u200cat a memorial wall located \u2060in Golders Green.<\/p>\n
April 21 – Police arrest eight, including seven as part of a proactive probe into an alleged conspiracy to \u2060commit arson.<\/p>\n
April 19 – Counter-terrorism police say they are examining possible Iranian links to arson attacks targeting synagogues and Jewish-linked premises in northwest London, describing them as a concerted \u200bcampaign intended \u200bto intimidate Jewish communities.<\/p>\n
April 18 – A petrol \u200bbomb attack at Kenton United \u200cSynagogue in northwest London causes minor damage.<\/p>\n
April 17 – Attempted arson at a business premises with links to the Jewish community in Hendon, north London, causes minor damage.<\/p>\n
April 17 – Jars containing a non-hazardous substance found in a park near London’s Israeli embassy. Police later make three arrests, including two on suspicion of preparing terrorist \u200cacts.<\/p>\n
April 15 – Attempted arson attack against Iran \u200bInternational, a Persian-language media organisation in northwest London \u200bthat is critical of Tehran’s government.<\/p>\n
April \u200b15 – Attempted arson attack at a synagogue in Finchley, north \u200cLondon, in which bottles suspected to \u200bcontain petrol were thrown.<\/p>\n
March \u200b23 – Four Jewish community ambulances torched. Police later announced several arrests in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
October 2, 2025 – Two people and an attacker were killed \u200bafter a man drove \u200cat pedestrians outside a synagogue and then carried out a stabbing \u200battack in the northern English city of Manchester.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti; \u200bediting by William James and Gareth Jones)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) – Police declared the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London on Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8031,11365,13,3258,11363,11364,27,3284,11366,11367],"class_list":{"0":"post-25371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"tag-arson-attack","9":"tag-attempted-arson","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-golders-green","12":"tag-jewish-men","13":"tag-jewish-population","14":"tag-london","15":"tag-north-london","16":"tag-police-arrest","17":"tag-terrorist-incident"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116490613943348049","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}