{"id":927691,"date":"2026-04-30T03:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927691\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:11:24","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-stabbing-2-in-a-london-jewish-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/927691\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after stabbing 2 in a London Jewish neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured on a London street on Wednesday in what police called an act of terror. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in the city\u2019s latest antisemitic attack<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police said the attack in the Golders Green area left two men, ages 34 and 76, hospitalized with knife wounds. <\/p>\n

Counterterrorism police are investigating whether the stabbings are linked to recent arson attacks<\/a> on synagogues and other Jewish sites in the British capital. Detectives are investigating a potential Iranian link to those attacks, but police said that it\u2019s too soon to say whether Wednesday\u2019s stabbing is connected.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Keir Starmer held a meeting of the government\u2019s emergency committee and vowed to \u201cdeal with the roots of antisemitism and extremism.\u201d Buckingham Palace said that King Charles III was \u201cdeeply concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metropolitan Police chief Mark Rowley said that it was \u201canother horrendous act of violence directed against our Jewish communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

But some British Jews expressed anger at authorities\u2019 failure to keep them safe. Rowley faced shouts of \u201cshame on you\u201d and \u201cresign\u201d from bystanders when he made a statement to media at the scene of the stabbings.<\/p>\n

Attacker immobilized by police<\/p>\n

The security organization Shomrim said that a suspect \u201cwas seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.\u201d It said that the suspect was detained by Shomrim members and arrested by police, who used a stun gun on him.<\/p>\n

Surveillance camera footage showed a man beside a bus stop donning a kippah, or traditional skullcap, before a passerby with a knife lunges at him.<\/p>\n

Rowley said the suspect, whose name hasn\u2019t been released, had \u201ca history of serious violence and mental health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arson attacks in recent weeks targeted Jewish sites in London, including a charity\u2019s ambulances<\/a> in Golders Green and a synagogue a few miles away.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday is somewhat worse because it\u2019s a physical attack against two human beings,\u201d resident Anthony Silber said. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking to hear, shocking to listen to, shocking to watch for those that saw, but it\u2019s not a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Jewish community is long established, but tiny as a percentage of the population, numbering about 300,000. The northwest London suburb of Golders Green is one of its epicenters, home to kosher restaurants, Jewish schools and several dozen synagogues, as well as large Asian and Middle Eastern communities.<\/p>\n

The number of antisemitic incidents reported across the U.K. has soared since the attack by Hamas-led militants on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in Gaza<\/a>, according to the Community Security Trust charity. The group recorded 3,700 incidents in 2025, up from 1,662 in 2022.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, an attacker drove his car into people<\/a> gathered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur and fatally stabbed one person. Another person died during the attack after being inadvertently shot by police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Iran link to arson attacks under investigation<\/p>\n

Since the start of the Iran war on Feb. 28, there have been a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites and opponents of the Iranian government. Several people, ranging in age from teens to people in their 40s, have been arrested and charged over the arsons, which haven\u2019t caused injuries.<\/p>\n

Counterterrorism officers are investigating whether the arson attacks were the work of Iranian proxies. Several have been claimed online in the name of Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia. Israel\u2019s government has described the group, whose name means the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, as a recently founded group with suspected links to \u201can Iranian proxy\u201d that has also claimed responsibility for synagogue attacks<\/a> in Belgium and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

An online claim in the same name also took responsibility for Wednesday\u2019s stabbing. But security experts say the name may be a flag of convenience rather than a coherent group, and its claims should be treated with caution.<\/p>\n

However, the U.K. has accused Iran of using criminal proxies to conduct attacks on European soil targeting Iranian opposition media outlets<\/a> and the Jewish community. Britain\u2019s MI5 domestic intelligence service says that more than 20 \u201cpotentially lethal\u201d Iran-backed plots were disrupted in the year ending in October.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, said that Jews face a campaign of violence and intimidation and that words of condemnation are no longer sufficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader and every decent person in our country,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a hatred that we must face down together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that the world must \u201cwake up\u201d to a rising wave of anti-Jewish hatred.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn one of the great capital cities of the West, it has become dangerous to openly walk the streets as a Jew,\u201d Herzog posted on X. \u201cThis is an unacceptable situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Kwiyeon Ha contributed to this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured on a London street on Wednesday in what…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[235410,259771,748,188,393,4179,4884,774,14535,44452,807,518,2003,257,60421,8547,16,15,8520,263],"class_list":["post-927691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","tag-anthony-silber","tag-britain","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-general-news","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-iran-government","tag-isaac-herzog","tag-keir-starmer","tag-king-charles-iii","tag-law-enforcement","tag-london","tag-mark-rowley","tag-religion","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-violence","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116491471255943765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927691","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=927691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}