{"id":556916,"date":"2026-04-29T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:42:11","slug":"two-people-stabbed-in-golders-green-london-attack-jewish-security-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556916\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people stabbed in Golders Green, London attack, Jewish security group says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people were stabbed Wednesday in a London <\/a>neighborhood with a large Jewish population, a community security group said, the latest in a string of apparently targeted attacks.<\/p>\n

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Shomrim, a Jewish neighborhood patrol group that operates in the north London suburb of Golders Green, said its team had detained a male suspect after an attack targeting \u201cJewish members of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a post on X: “The antisemitic attack in Golders Green is utterly appalling. Attacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain.”<\/p>\n

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan meanwhile condemned what he called an “appalling attack on two Jewish Londoners,” promising “high visibility patrols in the area.”<\/p>\n

It comes just weeks after an arson attack on several ambulances <\/a>in the area \u2014 home to several synagogues and dozens of Jewish schools and restaurants \u2014 that was condemned by Starmer as a \u201cdeeply shocking antisemitic\u201d assault.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a separate suspected arson attack had been reported in the area on Monday. <\/p>\n

Shomrim said a male suspect armed with a knife had been seen running along Golders Green Road on Wednesday, “attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.” <\/p>\n

\"TwoPolice attend the scene where two people were stabbed on Thursday in the Golders Green area of London. Carl Court \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The patrol group said two victims were stabbed and were being treated by Hatzola, a volunteer emergency medical service that operates in the area.<\/p>\n

Police arrived on the scene and deployed a taser at one point before taking the suspect into custody, it said. <\/p>\n

London’s Metropolitan Police did not immediately respond to a request for information from NBC News. <\/p>\n

Sarah Sackman, the Member of Parliament for Finchley and Golders Green, said: \u201cThe attacks on British Jews are an attack on Britain itself. It is unconscionable that Jews are being targeted in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n

About 15,000 people live in Golders Green, with half being Jewish, according to 2021 census data. <\/p>\n

The attack on several ambulances belonging to Hatzola in the area in late March sent shockwaves through the community.<\/p>\n

Three men and a teenager have been charged in connection with the ambulance attack. They were remanded in custody last week, with a plea hearing set for August. <\/p>\n

\"Image:Four Hatzolah ambulances following a suspected arson attack, in London on March 23.Leon Neal \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

On Monday, a fresh suspected arson attack was also reported at a memorial wall in the Golders Green area, the Metropolitan Police said. <\/p>\n

British broadcaster BBC News <\/a>said the wall had depicted Iranians killed protesting against the country’s regime and had been situated near a Jewish center. <\/p>\n

It said a section of the wall also commemorates those killed in the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attacks in southern Israel. <\/p>\n

Police said counter-terror officers were leading an investigation of that incident, but that the attack was not yet being treated as a terror incident.<\/p>\n

“We recognise that this incident will heighten concerns in the Golders Green area, where residents have already faced a series of attacks,” Williams said in a statement Monday. <\/p>\n

He said police had stepped up efforts to “reassure communities,” including with armed police patrols, since the arson attack last month.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s stabbing attack comes as the number of antisemitic incidents reported in the United Kingdom has surged since the Israel-Hamas war began in late 2023, including repeated attacks on synagogues. <\/p>\n

The Community Security Trust, a British charity that works to protect the country\u2019s Jewish population, recorded 3,700 incidents<\/a> last year alone, compared with 1,662 in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were stabbed Wednesday in a London neighborhood with a large Jewish population, a community security group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556916","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=556916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}