{"id":556918,"date":"2026-04-29T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:43:12","slug":"two-jewish-people-stabbed-in-london-amid-rising-antisemitic-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/556918\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Jewish people stabbed in London amid rising antisemitic attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

London\u00a0\u2014\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

\n Two Jewish people were stabbed in north London on Wednesday, witnesses told CNN, in an incident that comes against the backdrop of a series of antisemitic attacks in the UK capital.\n <\/p>\n

\n A man was detained and several emergency service vehicles, including an ambulance and police helicopter, attended the scene in Golders Green.\n <\/p>\n

\n The man was \u201cseen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public,\u201d according to the local charity security group Shomrim, which provides local neighborhood watch and emergency responses. Shomrim added that it responded immediately, and that police deployed a taser once they attended.\n <\/p>\n

\n The Metropolitan Police declined to immediately comment to CNN, though London\u2019s mayor Sadiq Khan confirmed that police had made an arrest.\n <\/p>\n

\n Large swathes of the road had been cordoned off by police by the time CNN reached the area.\n <\/p>\n

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Police cordon in north London after two people stabbed, according to Jewish neigborhood watch group\n <\/p>\n

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Police cordon in north London after two people stabbed, according to Jewish neigborhood watch group<\/p>\n

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\n And video circulating on social media appeared to show a man being detained by several police officers as well as two men in plain clothes.\n <\/p>\n

\n Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer described \u201cthe antisemitic attack\u201d as utterly \u201cappalling,\u201d and thanked Shomrim, Hatzola \u2013 a Jewish ambulance service \u2013 and the police for responding so quickly.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe all need to\u2026 be absolutely clear in our determination to deal with any of these offences, the like of which we\u2019ve seen too much recently,\u201d he added in parliament.\n <\/p>\n

\n London\u2019s Jewish community has been targeted by a wave of antisemitic attacks in recent weeks. Last month, arsonists set fire to four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in Golders Green, north London. Four people were subsequently charged<\/a> by police.\n <\/p>\n

\n Then, weeks later, a synagogue and the former premises of a Jewish charity, both in north London, were attacked.\n <\/p>\n

\n Another prominent Jewish organization \u2013 the Board of Deputies of British Jews \u2013 confirmed the attack had taken place and said they were working with the police \u201cto understand what has happened and ensure a forceful response.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n This is a developing story and will be updated.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Two Jewish people were stabbed in north London on Wednesday, witnesses told CNN, in an incident that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-556918","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\/556918","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=556918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}