{"id":21130,"date":"2026-04-27T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21130\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:23:17","slug":"man-arrested-over-attacks-on-jewish-community-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/21130\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested over attacks on Jewish community in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police investigating attacks on the Jewish community in London have arrested a man on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 37-year-old was arrested on Sunday at an address near Barnstaple, Devon, and is being questioned at a police station in London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The arrest is part of an ongoing counter-terrorism investigation into a series of attacks on the Jewish community in London, with targets including synagogues and ambulances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Metropolitan Police said, since an attack on Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green on 23 March, officers had arrested a total of 26 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Other incidents have included an ignited container being thrown at a Persian-language media organisation and the discovery of jars of a non-hazardous substance in Kensington Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The force said that eight people had been charged with arson-related offences and one person convicted of arson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Islamist group suspected of having Iranian links &#8211; Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia &#8211; claimed responsibility for the attack on the ambulances, along with other incidents in the UK and Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyxlnzrq41o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer previously expressed worry over the use of proxies - groups used by states to carry out criminal acts - by &quot;a number of countries&quot;.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer previously expressed worry over the use of proxies &#8211; groups used by states to carry out criminal acts &#8211; by &#8220;a number of countries&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was speaking during a visit to Kenton United Synagogue, which was targeted with a petrol bomb earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Met&#8217;s counter-terrorism unit is investigating the following incidents:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sir Ephraim Mirvis, chief rabbi at Kenton United Synagogue, said the Jewish community was filled with anxiety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He said he had asked the prime minister to &#8220;guarantee the normalisation of antisemitism in the UK will stop, and that there will be zero tolerance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Community Security Trust, an organisation which provides security for Jewish people, said: &#8220;We are grateful to [the police] and the Crown Prosecution Service for their work investigating these appalling attacks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More on this storyRelated internet links<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police investigating attacks on the Jewish community in London have arrested a man on suspicion of preparing terrorist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10632,5707,17,10630,5713,5709,1307,8119,493,10631,5705],"class_list":["post-21130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ambulances","tag-arson-attack","tag-canada","tag-golders-green","tag-jewish-charity","tag-jewish-community","tag-london","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-pa-media","tag-police-investigating","tag-united-synagogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}