{"id":532385,"date":"2026-04-15T15:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:12:09","slug":"finchley-synagogue-target-of-antisemitic-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/532385\/","title":{"rendered":"Finchley synagogue target of antisemitic arson attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Sackman, the Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said: &#8220;This shocking attempt to harm a local synagogue follows a series of alarming attacks on the Jewish community in Finchley and Golders Green.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added that she &#8220;refuses to allow this to become the new normal&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;British Jews must be free to go about their lives without fear &#8211; whether taking their children to nursery or attending synagogue. We do not want to live behind ever higher walls,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Posting on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MayorofLondon\/status\/2044411323363053952\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">X, external<\/a>, Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan said he was &#8220;grateful&#8221; for the police&#8217;s response to the attempted attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;While thankfully no one was injured, the Met are urging anyone with information to come forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Community Security Trust (CST), a charity which provides security and monitors antisemitism in the UK, said it was &#8220;supporting the affected location and are working closely with the police&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Sackman, the Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said: &#8220;This shocking attempt to harm a local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-532385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}