This is The Guardian.

A sudden acceleration that makes the whole community feel very threatened.

And people are talking quite seriously about whether it is safe for Jews to live in the UK.

An attack on our Jewish community is an attack on all of us.

I'm angry, I'm disgusted, but Jewish people are going to bed frightened.

An idea of Jews as a threat has simmered up from a pretty small fringe up through into the mainstream of political discourse,

and people are acting on that feeling.

It becomes a culture warfront, and in the middle are Jews sitting there thinking,

we have become a political football for you guys to kick around,

and it's exhausting and it's really disparity.

Yet another violent anti-Semitic attack in the UK,

with two men stabbed in North London. Is rising anti-Semitic attack in the UK with two men stabbed in North London.

Is rising anti-Semitism a national emergency?

And is more security for the Jewish community really the answer?

From the Guardians today in focus, this is the latest with me, Helen Pidd.

Joining me today is Guardian columnist Raphael Bear.

Thanks for being here, Raf.

It's a pleasure. So Wednesday saw yet another anti-Semitic terror attack in Britain, this time in Golders Green in North London. Two men were stabbed. They were aged 76 and 34, both in hospital, thankfully in a stable condition. One man is in custody, a 45-year-old British man of

Somali descent. And eyewitnesses said that they saw the alleged attacker chasing people out of a

synagogue and attacking anybody who was visibly Jewish. It was an absolutely shocking attack

that should disgust us all. But I just wonder for you as a British Jewish man who

grew up in North London, it must hit particularly hard. It's always strange when something like

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