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  "path": "/opinion/antisemitism-uk-golders-green-attack",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T15:15:40.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nThis Sunday at 1 pm, people will gather outside Downing Street to stand against antisemitism. Yesterday, I stood inside 10 Downing Street alongside fellow community leaders, senior ministers and civil society leaders to discuss how the Government can truly tackle this hatred, following last week’s horrifying attack on two visibly Jewish men in Golders Green.\n\nJust over a month earlier, I had walked through the same famous door after four Hatzola ambulances parked outside a synagogue were firebombed, possibly by those with links to the Iranian state.\n\nAnd only seven months ago, I met the Prime Minister when he travelled to Manchester, the city where I grew up, after two Jews were murdered by an Islamist terrorist at Heaton Park synagogue on Yom Kippur.\n\nIt is becoming increasingly difficult to know what to say. For two and a half years, we have warned about the staggering rise in antisemitism in this country.\n\nYet, antisemitism in Britain is not just rising; it is escalating into deadly acts of violence and terror.\n\nIn front of the full machinery of the state, the president of the Union of Jewish Students, Louis Danker, who represents the best of what the next generation of British Jews has to offer this country, laid the problem bare: “Britain has an antisemitism crisis. It is a crisis that everyone in this room is accountable for solving. The Jewish community needs you to meet this moment.”\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nHe is right. British Jews are living through the most challenging period in my lifetime. Antisemitism is out of control in modern Britain.\n\nWhile steps have been taken by the Government, particularly since the Heaton Park attack, it is clear that there is a major problem within parts of British society.\n\nThat is why, together with the Board of Deputies of British Jews and major organisations within the community, we set out clear, practical steps the Government must now take to address this acute moment of national crisis.\n\nWe are calling on the Government, with the backing of civil society, to:\n\n  * Protect British Jews against those who wish us harm\n  * Prosecute those inciting hatred through swift application of the law\n  * Partner with the Jewish community by recognising and challenging modern manifestations of antisemitism in Britain.\n\nFirst, the state must ensure that British Jews are properly protected. That means adequately resourcing police and security forces so that there is a consistent and visible deterrent to would-be attackers, alongside meaningful reassurance to the Jewish community.\n\n\nIt also means increasing the Protective Security Grant to cover the expanding costs of guarding and security at Jewish locations.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nSecond, the Government must act decisively against those who threaten Jews from abroad. That means finally proscribing Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its proxies operating in the UK and holding Iran accountable when their embassy calls for violence on British soil.\n\nThird, there must be an end to the incitement at pro-Palestinian protests, where antisemitic hate speech is all too common.\n\nThe police must use the full range of public order powers available to them, including restricting or, where necessary, banning marches. Fourth, the law must be enforced swiftly and consistently.\n\nThe arrest and prosecution of those responsible for inciting hatred against Jews, whether on marches, online, in performances or in religious preaching, must be accelerated.\n\nFifth, the current postcode lottery in policing inflammatory chants must end. It cannot be acceptable that phrases such as “globalise the intifada” lead to arrests in some cities but not others.\n\nAlongside this, the government must conclude the Macdonald review and fast-track the most urgent recommendations needed to expedite the prosecution and deterrence of criminal hate speech and public order offences. Sixth, there must be urgency in tackling extremism at its roots.\n\nThe Government should set out a clear timetable for the counter-extremism measures in the Protecting What Matters action plan, which includes new measures to tackle extremism within charities, schools and universities, and especially online.\n\nThe proliferation of antisemitism online is simply an epidemic, and there is practically no regulation or content management.\n\nBut beyond enforcement, there must also be recognition that this is not simply a crisis for the Jewish community, but a British crisis.\n\nThat requires honesty about where this hatred exists and who is responsible for propagating it. The most recent plots and attacks have come from extremists within sections of the Muslim community or from Iran or its proxies, while more broadly, antisemitism is driven by a toxic mix of Islamist extremism, far-left anti-Israel extremism, and the far-right.\n\nIt also requires a clearer understanding of how hatred of Israel can, and too often does, spill over into hatred of Jews.\n\nThis is not about foreign policy; it is about showing an understanding of how the conflict is exploited by extremists who reject the very existence of Israel, and the responsibility of politicians and civil society not to be complicit in that extremism.\n\nImporting foreign conflicts into British politics must stop; it is a recipe for sectarianism and division. Because ultimately, this isn’t about the Middle East; it is about Britain.\n\nIt is about what it now feels like to be a Jewish child walking to school in this country. To wear a kippah on the tube. To be on security at a synagogue.\n\nTo decide whether it is safe to display your identity in public. This Sunday at 1 pm, people will gather outside Downing Street to stand against antisemitism.\n\nIt should not just be Jews who turn up. British values are being challenged by Antisemites, and we have to stand against it together.\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "I met the PM after an Islamist terror attack. The truth about Jew hate has been dodged"
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