{"id":10439,"date":"2026-04-29T21:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/london-police-say-stabbing-of-2-jewish-men-is-declared-a-terrorist-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:31:08","slug":"london-police-say-stabbing-of-2-jewish-men-is-declared-a-terrorist-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/london-police-say-stabbing-of-2-jewish-men-is-declared-a-terrorist-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"London police say stabbing of 2 Jewish men is declared a terrorist incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_BaYyLHyJYqa?client=wp&amp;client_version=3.1.5\" width=\"100%\" height=\"136px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured in a London street on Wednesday, in what police called an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in the city\u2019s latest<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ap.org\/detail\/pronto\/b117a0fa6670bfbe7ab9f3b4ddb92efd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">antisemitic attack<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police said the attack in the Golders Green area left two men, aged 34 and 76, hospitalized with knife wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Counterterror police are investigating whether the stabbings are linked to<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-iran-persian-arson-arrests-b117a0fa6670bfbe7ab9f3b4ddb92efd\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">recent arson attacks<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>on synagogues and other Jewish sites in the British capital.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians condemned the attack. \u201cAttacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain,\u201d Prime Minister Keir Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p>The security organization Shomrim said a suspect \u201cwas seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and attempting to stab Jewish members of the public.\u201d It said the suspect was detained by Shomrim members and arrested by police, who used a stun gun on him.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance camera footage showed a man beside a bus stop donning a kippah, or traditional skullcap, before a passerby with a knife lunges at him.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect also tried to stab police officers, but none was injured. They are working to establish the suspect\u2019s nationality and background, and Detective Chief Superintendent Luke Williams said \u201cinvestigators are considering all possible motives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arson attacks in recent weeks targeted Jewish sites in London, including a<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/london-golders-green-ambulance-arson-antisemitism-hatzola-493f0d803b9c197a158d8f970eeb0998\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">charity\u2019s ambulances<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>in Golders Green and a synagogue a few miles (kilometers) away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happens in Israel, but happening on our own doorstep, of course it\u2019s shocking,\u201d said Golders Green resident Moishe Grunfeld. \u201cI have kids, I have grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Jewish community is long-established but tiny as a percentage of the population, numbering about 300,000. The northwest London suburb of Golders Green is one of its epicenters, home to kosher restaurants, Jewish schools and several dozen synagogues, as well as large Asian and Middle Eastern communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere must be absolutely no place for antisemitism in society,\u201d London Mayor Sadiq Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured in the arson incidents. Several people, ranging in age from teens to people in their 40s, have been arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<p>Counterterror officers are investigating whether the arson attacks were the work of Iranian proxies. The U.K. has accused Iran of using criminal proxies to conduct attacks on European soil targeting<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-pouria-zeraati-iran-international-tv-1eefb01cbd5e8f1e25de97c53c333524\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">opposition media outlets<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>and the Jewish community. Britain\u2019s MI5 domestic intelligence service says more than 20 \u201cpotentially lethal\u201d Iran-backed plots were disrupted in the year ending in October.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said Jews face a campaign of violence and intimidation and that words of condemnation are no longer sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the world must \u201cwake up\u201d to a rising wave of anti-Jewish hatred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one of the great capital cities of the West, it has become dangerous to openly walk the streets as a Jew,\u201d Herzog posted on X. \u201cThis is an unacceptable situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The number of antisemitic incidents reported across the U.K. has soared since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on Israel and the subsequent<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">Gaza war<\/a><\/span>, according to the Community Security Trust. The group recorded 3,700 incidents in 2025, up from 1,662 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, an attacker<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-manchester-synagogue-attack-knife-car-68a30390a6680100093874988b954891\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">drove his car into people<\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>gathered outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur and stabbed one person to death. Another person died during the attack after being<span>\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/britain-manchester-synagogue-attack-e3d93d116c0334d5c51c1d7c3c933172\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">inadvertently shot by police<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/04\/29\/london-police-say-stabbing-of-2-jewish-men-is-declared-a-terrorist-incident\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Two Jewish men were stabbed and injured in a London street on Wednesday, in what police called an act of terrorism. Police arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder in the city\u2019s latest\u00a0antisemitic attack. The Metropolitan Police said the attack in the Golders Green area left two men, aged 34 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}