This morning, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, north London. The two – one in his seventies and the other in his thirties – have been taken to hospital following the attack. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a statement of his ‘concern.’

Two Jews were stabbed, and the Prime Minister is ‘concerned.’ When will the Prime Minister be concerned enough to act?

This is far from a unique incident: in Slough, a man on a bicycle passed a visibly Jewish man at work (who gave his name only as Moshe), clocked his kippah, and decided – in broad daylight – that he deserved to be threatened, hit, called a ‘dirty motherfucking Jew,’ and accused of killing babies. And he is not a terrorist; he is not part of a cell. This is a man on a bicycle on a Tuesday.

Last month, four ambulances belonging to Hatzolah, a Jewish charity that aids both Jew and gentile alike, were set alight in north London; two weeks ago, two people dressed in balaclavas threw a brick and petrol bombs at a synagogue; a few days later a fire was set next to the former offices of a Jewish educational charity that had not yet removed the Star of David from its window; the memorial wall for the victims of the brutal massacres of 7 October were set alight the night before today’s stabbing; – not to mention the Heaton Park Synagogue attacks that murdered two Jews on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53; dead on........

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