LATEST: An antisemitic terror attack in London
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The Times
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Police have declared a terrorist incident after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green. The suspect, Essa Suleiman, is in custody and the two men are stable. Plenty of questions remain as the Jewish community reels from the latest in a series of antisemitic incidents. How can Jewish communities be protected?
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Guests:
- Matt Dathan, home affairs editor, The Times.
- Neil Basu, former head of UK counterterrorism policing.
Host: Callum Martin
Producers: Callum Martin, Olivia Case, Elizabeth Highfield, Sandra Mitchell.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Callum Martin, a producer on the story. |
| 0:14.7 | There's one story that's dominated the news over the past couple of days, and we thought |
| 0:19.0 | we should bring you an update. |
| 0:20.7 | Yesterday, police declared a terrorist incident after two Jewish men were stabbed in |
| 0:25.4 | Golders Green London. A suspect is in custody and the two men are in a stable condition. |
| 0:32.0 | But there are plenty of questions left to answer as the Jewish community reels from this |
| 0:36.8 | latest in a recent string of anti-Semitic |
| 0:39.1 | attacks. On Times Radio this afternoon, columnist and presenter Daniel Finkelstein spoke about his |
| 0:45.7 | feelings following the attack. Like every Jew today, I feel angry, I feel distressed and, yes, |
| 0:53.4 | I'm afraid to say, I even feel a little bit |
| 0:55.9 | scared. I'm not chanting shame on you at local Labour MP Sarah Sackman, who's Jewish, or calling |
| 1:02.6 | Kirstarmer who's married to a Jew and has Jewish children a Jew harmer, but nor am I going to |
| 1:08.3 | fall out with those Jews who do shout these things. I quite firmly disagree |
| 1:12.4 | with them, but I do understand the emotional need to chart something at someone. These are cries of |
| 1:18.5 | despair, and despair seems to me a perfectly reasonable reaction. And I do think there are things |
| 1:24.7 | that can be done that authorities can do that aren't being done. |
| 1:29.7 | We need to start taking people seriously when they say what they want to do to Jews. |
| 1:34.9 | When people say they want jihad, we have to see that they really do and understand they mean |
| 1:40.4 | what they say. When they say they want to globalise the indifada, that is, |
| 1:45.2 | directly an incitement to armed resistance against Jews in this country. And anyone who pretends |
| 1:52.1 | that these phrases mean anything else is gaslighting. There are radicalised groups, |
| 1:57.8 | lone wolves and global actors who are putting these ideas into practice, |
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