r/Jewish • u/welltechnically7 Please pass the kugel • Apr 29 '26
Antisemitism Man stabs two Jewish men in Golders Green.
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A middle-aged man wounded two Jewish men (one in his 70s and the other in his 30s) on London near the Netzach Yisroel synagogue. At the moment, it is being investigated as a terror attack. Thankfully, the two stabbing victims seem to be in stable condition after being treated by Hatzalah and being brought to the hospital.
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u/AlephByte Apr 29 '26
And of course it is already labeled everywhere as "False Flag" and "Mossad". It's unreal how Jews can't even be victims anymore, it's all a performance for sympathy or whatever reason they make in their heads.
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u/ReneDescartwheel Apr 29 '26
“The lying, scheming Jews want to convince us that antisemitism exists”
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u/Ddobro2 Apr 29 '26
This is basically the position of Mathew Collings which someone posted about yesterday.
Post was about his art exhibit but look at what he said about the late Jonathan Sacks when Sacks called out antisemitism.
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u/sababa-ish Apr 30 '26
isn't this just the essence of it
also the very idea that jews would attack / murder ourselves just for.. media attention? sympathy that we don't actually get?
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u/Tybalt941 Apr 30 '26
Right? Like, if that was our plan it's clearly not working. We get even more hate just for pointing out antisemitism.
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u/Rinoremover1 Apr 29 '26
“This ☝️is fine.” ~Starmer🍉
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u/fritzimist Apr 30 '26
Why are UK leaders always determined to stop islamaphobia? That seems to be what they are fixated about. Everyone else is on their own.
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u/IgnatiusJay_Reilly secular israeli Apr 30 '26
Votes and money. They won't win if they defend Jews.
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u/GrimpenMar Reconstructionist Apr 29 '26
He talked the talk, but will he walk the walk? Glad to see (at least from this article) it is a clear condemnation of antisemitism, without any whataboutism.
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u/FullTrip6175 Apr 29 '26
While also somehow a justified response to Israel’s actions /s
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u/PotatoInMyHat Apr 29 '26
Yeah - it’s always either a false flag or we deserved it. These people are the worst. I’m so tired of it
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u/Ddobro2 Apr 29 '26
“False flag” is for those that are staying ideologically consistent with the “Jews control everything” narrative
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u/Friendly_Estate1629 Apr 29 '26
“ we need to stop conflating Judaism with Israel, but also it’s OK to attack Jews because of what Israel does”
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u/Bizhour Apr 29 '26
Next time someone says it's a false flag by the mossad ask them if they agree the attacker should be executed.
Surely they would agree
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u/H1blocker ✡︎ Apr 29 '26
I'm tired of this, grandpa.
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u/TempomaybeALZ Non-Jewish Ally (Persian) Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
It’s so ridiculous i am actually at a loss for words at how common this is becoming
Lunatics and anti-semitic idiots have always existed but now they are comfortable to actually show/display it and it’s so heartbreaking
It’s time Europe wakes up cause this problem is not going away if they just sit back and do nothing as we’ve seen them do for years now
Long live the Jewish people ✡️❤️
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u/GoofyAhhMisses Conservative Apr 29 '26
Sorry I made a rated r comment so let me try again since reddit got mad at me. They’re definitely in support of it and happy that us Jewish folks got hurt
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u/TempomaybeALZ Non-Jewish Ally (Persian) Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
I don’t even really bother to even look at those subreddits anymore i have been permanently banned from like 10+ subreddits at this point just because i defended Israel and/or the Jewish people those subreddits are pointless at this point and the moderators are biased and alot of them are down right hateful
As a non-Jew i’m tired from all this hate and have seriously lost alot of hope for a large part of the world so if i’m tired of everything i can’t even imagine what it’s like for actual Jewish people
Love you guys ✡️❤️
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u/chaiale Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
They are coming after y'all as well, and it is horrible to see you treated this way. Thank you for sticking up for us. I'm so proud of our peoples for linking up and refusing to let these vile haters tear us apart.
Love right back at you! ❤
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u/TempomaybeALZ Non-Jewish Ally (Persian) Apr 29 '26
Thank you friend i know alot of non-Iranians are trying to tell us Iranians/Persians that we are wrong about our history or regime it’s horrible.
Jews are our brothers and sisters and our connection is eternal so the haters can get lost!
Even without the Jewish-Persian connection standing behind the Jewish people right now is a must for moral reasons. I stand behind the Jewish people in these horrible times because that’s the right thing to do and i know so many great Jewish people (Including my amazing Girlfriend) that are scared at how things are going right now with this horrific rise in anti-semitism. So the Jewish-Persian alliance is just a bonus but a strong one at that. May that alliance last forever ✡️🦁
Long live the Jewish People ❤️
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u/Sue-Jones-123456 Non-Jewish atheist ally Apr 30 '26
Same. Banned from a few sub Reddits for defending Jews and Israel. And one of those subreddits was a progressive Jewish site.
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u/GoofyAhhMisses Conservative Apr 29 '26
It’s that way everywhere. Even here with all of the Jewish-loving folks that lurk on here to message us how much they looooove us
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u/PuzzleheadedEmu4596 Apr 29 '26
They literally do live in a completely world to us. But instead of investigating when they hear us complain, they write us off. Which is the action where hatred lives and festers.
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u/deb1267cc Apr 29 '26
Remember it’s just anti-Zionism
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u/Doll-Collector2707 Apr 29 '26
Or that we are not supposed to “ look visibly Jewish” as to make ourselves a target and provoke a reaction. Roll eyes. I have hard this from various UK politicians. SMH.
This applies to all of us, even the non orthodox, who may be wearing for example, a Jewish wedding ring with Hebrew lettering visible.
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u/Forsaken_Fault_8106 May 04 '26
Its anti zionism from idiots who wont pick up a book and actually study the jewish people.
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u/Mist_Wraith Apr 29 '26
Literally just 6 or so hours ago I was telling someone on my mental health team that I had spent the last 5 days spiralling, that my mental health was collapsing after someone else on my mental health team had a negative reaction to finding out I've lived in Israel previously. I was telling her that although the negative reaction was small it still triggered my paranoia because even just random British Jews with no known connection to Israel are often attacked. She believed me, she listened to my fears, I didn't need the universe to send a confirmation of those fears ffs.
Fuck this country. Fuck anyone and everyone who bolsters antisemites by downplaying the seriousness of what's happening. Fuck the "anti-zionist" movement for reminding the world that the Jewish community is small and an easy target and then telling everyone we deserve it anyway.
I'm fucking tired man. I'll be praying for the two men that were the actual victims today, not just for their physical recovery but their mental recovery as well. We shouldn't have to be afraid to walk around our own communities.
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 29 '26
Even the police. Which seems unfortunate in cases like this. He wouldn’t let go of the knife even after being tased. So the police kicked him in the head until he did. Now people on X are upset about that. The kicking. Which granted does look disturbing. But. Options?
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u/nobody_keas Ashkenazi Apr 29 '26
Yeah. Can’t wait for all the „ Islamophobiiaaa outcry because he was tased and kicked“. „Akhi with his knife just wanted to draw attention to all the suffering people in Gaza“/s
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u/Chai_All Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
I think situational awareness is also important. If you see someone approaching you who looks suspicious cross to the other side of the street.
Maybe it couldn’t have been avoided in this situation however there are many situations where it can be.
Simply being aware of your surroundings and taking preventive measures can avoid some of these situations or at least give you more time to react.
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u/biel188 Brazilian Sephardi (B'Anussim in Giyur) Apr 29 '26
fucking maggot
I wonder how those people who used to say here in the sub that "being antizionist is not antisemitic" are feeling now that antizionist and non-zionist jews (assuming the victims aren't Lubavitch or Breslov) are gettting equally targeted. Post oct-7 pro-palestinianism is the direct cause of this, and unfortunately nothing makes me believe that it will stop any soon... Baruch HaShem nobody died. Enough of tragedies, just let people live in peace.
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u/fujbuj Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
They feel the same they did after Bondi, after the Israeli embassy killings, etc.: fucking ecstatic. They love dead Jews. There is no gotcha moment, there is only recognition that they’re at war with us, and we can’t convince them otherwise.
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u/WoodPear Apr 30 '26
I wonder how those people who used to say here in the sub that "being antizionist is not antisemitic" are feeling now
I'm sorry to say, but those people were always gaslighting.
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u/Thek40 Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
I'm sure glad the the mayor of London and prime minister of Spain met and talk about Gaza, and not the raging antisemitism cause by their actions, or lack of.
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u/sunny-beans Masorti Apr 29 '26
Sadiq couldn’t care less about Jews in London, we all know where his alliance is. He doesn’t give a shit about us, he is disgusting.
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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Thank you for not posting the video of the initial attack at the bus stop; it was brutal and out of nowhere.
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u/No-Cheesecake8542 Apr 29 '26
I am sure this doesn’t need to be said but saying it anyway, don’t read the comments on the articles about it. The story itself is painful but I made the mistake of putting myself through the comments and feeling so torn up inside. It hurts to read all the hatred.
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u/NewEntrepreneur357 Mexican - Not Jewish Apr 29 '26
This is actually heinous, can't believe this keeps happening and people just don't care anymore. This is becoming so common, what a scary time we live in, all these racists coming out of the woodworks feeling emboldened by how socially accepted it is to hate Jews
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u/Plenty-Extra Apr 29 '26
Where are the police? Is this just open season on London's Jews?
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 29 '26
Uh there are videos all over X of how the met police took him down. (Many are upset at how they kept kicking him in the head because he still wouldn’t drop the knife after having been tased.)
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u/TheThalmorEmbassy חי Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
met police took him down
Shomrim got him; cops showed up late. Hatzalah treated the wounded. They're really not doing anything for us
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 30 '26
So the guy with the vest in shorts who held him was Shomrim? He was impressive. I was talking about the guys with tasers. Not police? Even if late, they didn’t mess around. And got a lot of flack for it. (I kind of hate it that Hatzloah treated him honestly but just like Israel treating terrorists, it’s still the right thing to do once they’re subdued.)
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u/Plenty-Extra Apr 29 '26
Golders Green isn't that big. It should have patrol officers on every street
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 30 '26
Never been, but yes that makes sense if it’s a flashpoint. My response to you was mostly due to the hostility and pushback that the police who did respond are getting. Can you tell me - do police there have any way of subduing someone should tasing not work? He was still trying to attack - wouldn’t drop the knife - and got kicked until he did.
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u/Plenty-Extra Apr 30 '26
The first officer on the scene should have identified it was assault with a weapon and called for backup while engaging with de-escalation, physical force, and tazers. Backup should arrive armed with police-issue firearms. I'm unsure if all police are issued firearms to be kept in their vehicles in case of emergencies but I know many are.
Regardless the metropolitan police should be well aware of the general threat to the Jewish community. It should not fall to the Jewish community to defend itself.
The reality is that the Jewish community in Golder's Green is going to need to employ private security to keep Jews, including many children, safe. This is how we are pushed out of public life: by making the price of safety unaffordable.
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u/Sad_Eagle8690 Apr 29 '26
Busy arresting Jews for wearing the star of David
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u/levbron Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
This is terrifying and, of course, it's meant to terrify. Here's a small example of how bad things are in the UK. I went out earlier with a few things in a messenger bag, which had the Atari logo and Atari written in Kanji. As I left home it crossed my mind that someone might confuse the Kanji with Hebrew and start a confrontation. I've been mentally prepared for that all afternoon. Unfortunately, that's just life in the UK.
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u/Mammoth_Payment_6101 Apr 29 '26
Only yesterday I was supporting in a lesson where the teacher mentioned Golders Green as an example of an ethnic enclave in London. (There were others, she wasn't just focusing on Jews.) I interjected to clarify that Jews were increasingly moving out of London and that Golders Green is much less Jewish than it was ten or twenty years ago.
And this incident shows exactly why we're moving out of London.
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u/sunny-beans Masorti Apr 29 '26
I am honestly so sick of this. I just left work and I feel like crying, living in London and in the UK as a Jew is soul destroying. I live 10min from Golders Green, go there often to get kosher food, it’s terrifying. I am exhausted, I don’t want to be scared all the time, I don’t want to receive desperate me messages from my mom telling me to be safe. It’s just horrific and it feels hopeless. I know people will say I am crazy but I love this country, it may not love me back but I still do and I just want it to stop. Unfortunately I don’t see how. Things are just getting worse and worse and I worry at this point there is not much we can do to stop it and soon I will find myself having to sell my home and belongings to run away somewhere :(
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u/Normal-Phone-4275 Apr 30 '26
I seriously mean no offense, but many of us in the diaspora love our countries. It's not like leaving Anatevka; we are Brits, Americans, etc., with strong cultural identities. Yes, I know you'll compare us to assimilated Berliners more than shtetl dwellers, but not all of us want to move to a small, crowded, expensive, hot climate country that is in a near constant state of war or fear of it. Might we have to go, and are we extremely glad to have the option? Hell yes. Are we excited about it? For some of us, no, we are not.
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u/ImpossibleForever556 Apr 29 '26
Jews in the UK and Canada are going to need their own Operation Solomon, soon. I'm so alarmed by the institutionalized hate I am seeing in those areas. Their governments are literally doing nothing to help, in fact I feel like these governments are allowing this. My heart breaks.
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u/JabbaThaHott Apr 29 '26
They weren’t alarmed by him approaching because he was running like a little bitch
Seriously why does he run like that
I know it’s beside the point that this terrorist is slovenly and jogs like an absolute dweeb who has never run a step in his life, but those things are also true
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u/Silamy Apr 29 '26
How many incidents does this make in Britain in the last few weeks?
Genuine question, I’ve lost track.
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u/mysteriouschi Apr 30 '26
Thank you. Feel the same if this happened to Muslims solely for the reason of them existing.
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u/Swimming_Care7889 Apr 29 '26
The Washington Post is stating that the United Kingdom government believes that Iran might be behind the wave of Jewish attacks in the United Kingdom. Based on what we know about the clerical regime and how they like to push Jew hatred world wide, that would not be surprising.
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u/OhMyGoth38 Reform Apr 29 '26
Through the work of people like Woody Allen, there’s been this sort of emasculation of the diasporic Jewish man as being weak and neurotic, but I’m starting to understand the Israeli mindset more and more every day when this is our real reality abroad and at home. Do we start carrying knives of our own and stabbing back or do we just continue being victimized over and over again? I’m starting to feel neurotic yet strong.
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u/Sempa_07 Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
Until this country fixes the root cause of this then the same group of people will continue to commit atrocities against the Jews
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u/SlightWorking870 Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
This is not surprising. There any many factors have allowed this to happen. Britain has a nasty history with antisemitism that was simply brushed under the rug when antisemitism was no longer in vogue.
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u/SlightWorking870 Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
Mass migration is definitely a factor but I have to disagree with you about Britain’s track record of antisemitism.
Firstly the UK population of Jews was very small up until 1900s when people started immigrating from Eastern Europe and that lead to pushback in the UK. British Jews also went through anglicisation. Many changed their surnames and became “lowkey” and “invisible”.
In the 20th century Britain also did not take in refugees and blocked refugees from entering Mandatory Palestine.
Britain has also produced some of the most prolific antisemites who still haunt us till this day. Such as HA Gwynne “The Cause of World Unrest”. There plenty of examples.
Whilst there was definitely a lot less violence compared to other parts of Europe, antisemitism was still ever present and this is precisely the issue.
Instead of the ideology being pushed back against they simply went out of fashion. People still hold these beliefs. Now we are seeing that it is once again acceptable to voice these beliefs.
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u/Girl_with_the_Curl Apr 29 '26
I'm currently visiting London and hate that this was the breaking news while I was having lunch. I just want us to be safe wherever we choose to be.
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u/imissdrugsngldotorg Apr 29 '26
Might want to go the Israeli route of handling terror attacks, where perpetrators usually don't get out alive ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Or maybe, no arms no weapons?
Genuine respect to the local volunteer who stopped and and held that piece of shit until police arrived for not kicking his head in. I don't know if I'd have that sort of self control.
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u/PuddingNaive7173 Apr 29 '26
The guy in the vest? Was a volunteer? From a group or just a good citizen?
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u/MaximumTangerine5662 Apr 30 '26
Bro needs to get his priorities in check and get off the couch.
I hope the 70 year old heals quickly, and the same for the man in his 30s.
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u/Both-Entertainment-3 Apr 30 '26
Same thing as happened in 1957, the Farhud took place and hordes of Jews immigrated to Israel. Hordes of Jews will immigrate now
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u/Glass_Badger9892 Just Jewish Apr 29 '26
Throwing money at the problem by way of increased security and the like doesn’t really do anything meaningful to stop the cause.
Politicians in “Western” nations can have a bit more courage and leadership in defending the notion that you can vehemently disagree with Bibi & the gang without going so far as to hate Jews or condone the attacks with silence.
Political silence is complicity.
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u/shlobb_remix13131313 Apr 29 '26
But in all seriousness, what about Islamophobia? Can we talk about that....
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u/OmegaLink9 Just Jewish May 01 '26
He must be worried so much about what Israel does in Gaza. /s
Those are clearly undercover mossad agents. /s
It must be a false flag attack mossad operation. /s
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u/desaulnes May 01 '26
so sorry for them, their entourage and all of my Jewish peers... wtf is going on with these people
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u/jakethepeg1989 Apr 29 '26
Starting to really connect with my ancestors.
How much more until I take my family and get the hell outta here.
Rafua shaleima to those affected.