British Jews facing hate from all sides – police chief
Posted on: May 03, 2026 14:36 IST | Posted by: Rt
The judaic community of interests in the UK is veneer its sterling(a) threat, Metropolitan constabulary Commissioner, Mark Rowley has said in the aftermath of a recent stabbing in London.
On Wednesday, two Jewish men were wounded in a knife attack by a British national of Somali origin in the city’s Golders Green area. The suspect, who was subsequently detained, had also attempted to kill his friend of 20 years the same day. Police say he has a history of serious violence and mental health issues.
In his interview with the Times on Saturday, Rowley said that “every racist or extremist or terrorist group has a list of people they hate, because they all create an ‘other’ who they want to blame everything on,” invoking a concept developed by 20th century French psychologist Jaques Lacan.
According to the police chief, the British Jews “are on everybody’s list, all of those hateful groups, whether you’re extreme right, whether you’re extreme left, whether you’re Islamist terrorist, whether you’re right-wing terrorist, and some hostile states as well now, with some sort of Iranian-related threats.”
“There’s a ghastly Venn diagram that they’re at the middle of,” he added.
The reason for anti-Semitism “becoming more and more mainstreamed” is social media, which allows an increasing number of people to consume information that reinforces their views from “non-traditional sources,” Rowley claimed.
The commissioner said he intends to recruit 300 more officers to protect the Jewish sites in London.
Following the Golders Green incident, the UK terrorism threat level was raised to “severe,” which means that an attack is “highly likely.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said earlier that the stabbing was “not a one-off” and that Jewish people in the UK are “scared to show who they are.” He vowed to do everything to “stamp this hatred out.”
The UK has seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents since Israel began its military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to a deadly incursion by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Last month, a group of young men torched four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in Golders Green, the same neighborhood where Wednesday’s stabbings occurred.
Over 72,600 people have been killed and over 172,400 wounded by Israel’s airstrikes and ground campaign in Gaza so far, according to figures from the Palestinian health authorities.
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