London’s top police official is warning that British Jews are facing the most dangerous climate in modern UK history, as antisemitic attacks continue escalating across the country.
In a stark interview with The Times, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley described an “epidemic” of antisemitism fueled by online extremism, terrorism, and hostile foreign actors — including Iranian-linked threats.
“If you overlay hate crime, terrorism and hostile state activity… that combined effect is really dangerous and troubling,” Rowley said. “Jewish communities feel that… it’s changing their lives.”
Rowley said Jews are now targeted by virtually every extremist ideology in Britain — from Islamist terrorists and far-left activists to right-wing extremists and hostile states.
Asked whether British Jews face their greatest threat ever, Rowley responded: “That has to be true.”
The comments come days after a brutal antisemitic terror stabbing in the heavily Jewish Golders Green neighborhood of north London, where two Jewish men — 34-year-old Shloime Rand and 76-year-old Moshe Shine — were attacked.
Police charged 45-year-old Essa Suleiman with two counts of attempted murder and weapons offenses. Authorities have classified the attack as terrorism.
In response to the growing threat, Britain has now raised its national terror alert level to “severe,” meaning another attack is considered highly likely.
Rowley is reportedly seeking emergency funding for 300 additional officers — including armed units — dedicated specifically to protecting Jewish neighborhoods in northwest London.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Keir Starmer signaled that Britain may begin banning certain anti-Israel demonstrations, particularly marches calling for “intifada,” a term widely associated with violence and terror against Jews.
The pressure on the British government has intensified following the Golders Green attack and a series of recent antisemitic incidents targeting Jewish communities throughout the UK.
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You gotta love a country that jails people for unwoke FB posts but allows Islamits to march though the streets calling death to Jews.
The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer
Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan.
15, 2008. Truer words have seldom been said:
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a
terrible truth — Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million
Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims (today, close to 50 million). In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the
chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful
people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science,
art, international trade, and above all as the conscience of the
world. These are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove
to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened
our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and
ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and
poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families
with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities
into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they
plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical
hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for
backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their
talent for a better future for their children, their determined
clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for
people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for
our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
Banning anti-semitic [read anti-Israel] demonstrations is certainly a good thing. But the government and politicians must also stop their anti-Israel rhetoric and criticizem.
Unless you limit it to post-1707 (when the United Kingdom was created, as opposed to England and Scotland being separate countries) it was hardly the “Greatest Ever Threat” to British Jews; the 13th century was much worse. And this doesn’t include the period of the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940 (when they were making plans to evacuate the royal family to Canada, the the overly optimistic Germans were deciding where to locate the concentration camps after they took control of Britain).
BBC is literally dripping with blood, for their viscous anti Israel & anti Jewish propaganda, but such pro-Muslim agenda.