{"id":797721,"date":"2026-03-01T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797721\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:45:18","slug":"london-iranians-jews-celebrate-khameneis-death-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/797721\/","title":{"rendered":"London Iranians, Jews celebrate Khamenei’s death together"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iranians and Jews took to the streets of Golders Green on Saturday night to celebrate Israel’s elimination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei<\/a> and President Masoud Pezeshkian.<\/p>\n

Videos from the massive street party show hundreds of local Jews and Iranian expatriates dancing to “Am Yisrael Chai,” chanting Iranian protest songs, and waving Israeli and Iranian flags.<\/p>\n

Dina, who lives locally and was at the celebration, told The Jerusalem Post that It was “really incredible” to see Golders Green Road, which is one of the main Jewish roads in the north-west London community, come alive with celebration and solidarity.<\/p>\n

“It was packed, you couldn’t drive past at the start,” she said. Eventually she drove past and said some Iranians were screaming ‘thank you’ through the windows.<\/p>\n

“It was mainly Iranians holding Iranian flags but they were also holding Israeli flags and chanting ‘long live Israel<\/a>.'”<\/p>\n

Dina added that, since October 7, one wall in Golders Green has been used to display all the hostage posters, but than since the last hostages have returned and the war with Iran<\/a> has started, Iranians have used the wall to put up posters of Iranians who have been killed and lighting candles.<\/p>\n

“It was just really incredible, two communities coming together. They were all literally thanking us; you could see like the gratitude.”<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the organization Stop The Hate organized a joint Iranian-Jewish rally in central London.<\/p>\n

The Iranian protesters chose to play the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikva.”<\/p>\n

In recent years, especially since the 2022 protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian dissidents and British Jews have frequently stood side by side at rallies in London calling out extremism and supporting human rights.<\/p>\n

In neighborhoods like Golders Green, activists from both communities have organized joint demonstrations, educational panels, and solidarity gatherings. After the October 7 attacks, many Iranian protesters publicly expressed sympathy with Israeli victims and opposition to the Iranian regime\u2019s backing of Hamas, while Jewish groups voiced support for the Iranian people\u2019s struggle against repression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranians and Jews took to the streets of Golders Green on Saturday night to celebrate Israel’s elimination of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[773,748,393,4884,81462,73317,74592,75715,257,231541,2585,231542,231543,44453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-797721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-iran-and-israel","13":"tag-iran-israel-war","14":"tag-iran-israel","15":"tag-israel-iran-war","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-mahsa-amini","18":"tag-masoud-pezeshkian","19":"tag-operation-epic-fury","20":"tag-operation-roaring-lion","21":"tag-the-october-7-massacre","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116156112833111073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}