THE stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green on Wednesday wasn’t a random act of ‘far-right thuggery’, to use the Prime Minister’s favourite expression of disapproval. It has been declared a terrorist incident, based on the targeted anti-Semitic nature of the attack. Although an Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility, officers have said there is no evidence linking the suspect to any proscribed organisation or extremist group. A ‘British’ Somalian, Essa Suleiman, 45, has been charged with attempted murder. Meanwhile, the official response from those running the country has been the same linguistic dance of Tiptoe Through the Tulips we have witnessed ever since October 7, 2023.
Prime Minister Starmer called it ‘utterly appalling’, London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan insisted he was ‘angry, appalled and disgusted’ – which, presumably, is supposed to impress us. Metropolitan Police chief Sir Mark Rowley was nearer the mark referencing ‘a pandemic of anti-Semitism’. What would have impressed me would have been any reference to the cause they all defiantly refuse to acknowledge.
Not being as coy as our leaders, I’ll take a stab: I think the cause of the Jew-hatred we are witnessing day in, day out on the streets of Britain is a direct consequence of Islamic extremism, and by extension of Islam and its adherents in this country, whom our betters seem increasingly unwilling to allow us to live without. While the authorities assuage their consciences by condemning ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘extremism from all sides’, they have been strangely reluctant to lift a finger when it comes to hate march singers on Britain’s streets rehearsing their back catalogue of ‘Death to the Jews’, ‘Globalise the intifada’, ‘From the river to the sea’, and convoys driving through London screaming such phrases as ‘F**k the Jews’, ‘Rape their daughters’ and ‘F**k their mothers’. The consequences for which, it must be said, are close to zero, as in the latter case where charges against four arrested men were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.
The data is unequivocal. According to the Community Security Trust’s figures, the surge in anti-Semitism is tied to the Israel-Palestine discourse, with 2025 recording 3,700 anti-Semitic incidents, the second highest on record. Even according to Home Office figures, anti-Semitic incidents are almost on par with anti-Muslim ones; when you consider the tiny size of the Jewish population, it works out that Jews are targeted at a rate of 10:1.
The Muslim population meanwhile is not tiny, and is growing at an alarming rate – 75 per cent every ten years, according to Nigel Farage. Already 10 per cent of school-age children are Muslim. This could be problematic, not least because of the commonly held attitudes of British Muslims. In terms of their attitude to the Jewish community, here is a concise summary from a survey conducted by the Henry Jackson Society in 2024:
- Almost half of British Muslims say Jews have too much power over UK government policy;
- Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7;
- Only one in four British Muslims believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland;
- Almost half of British Muslims feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel;
- More than half of British Muslims believe the BBC is biased towards Israel.
Disturbing stuff.
Neither is it mere demography resulting in a rise in anti-Semitism. It is alsobeing imported on a daily basis, quite literally, by those crossing the Channel in small boats. Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, a Gazan in his 30s, arrived illegally in Kent on a migrant dinghy in March 2025. Days later he was arrested. He is a self-declared Hamas supporter who prayed for ‘Allah to kill all Jews’, posed with gunmen, and had participated in attacks on Israel. Abdullah Albadri, who twice broke into Britain via a dinghy, was arrested in 2025 attempting to scale the Israeli embassy fence with two knives. His intended suicide note read thus: ‘I will not go back on my decision to go in the cause of Allah, to come out for His sake and to stand up to the enemies in order to support the religion of Allah Almighty.’ These are not abstract statistics: these are men who directly came to Britain to kill Jews.
Many commentators have argued that the London hate marches created this hatred, but they are naïve in the extreme. Like so many other facets of Muslim behaviour, the marchers were testing the water. They certainly found common cause with extreme left Israel-haters and anti-Semites. But it was the abject cowardice and moral bankruptcy of the authorities that gave them the legitimacy they sought. Whether it is two-tier policing, joke sentences, no sentences or community orders handed down for the gang-rape of little white girls (yes, there have been cases of ‘unduly lenient’ sentencing, for example in 2023 a man was given a community payback order for raping a 13-year-old girl in Scotland), marauding thugs being patiently asked to ‘stash the weapons at the mosque‘, or the pathetic refusal to proscribe either the IRGC or the Muslim Brotherhood, the British State has proved time and again that it has absolutely no intention of dealing with the problem of a large Muslim population with Islamist sympathies, and now we see the consequences.
Let me be clear: I’m not prioritising anti-Semitism, Jews or Jew-hatred – we have Muslims more than willing to do that. I care about all the victims of Islamic extremism – whether it’s workers having a quiet pint after work at London Bridge, revellers doing their best to ‘enjoy’ Ariana Grande, white girls being gang-raped for the sake of a multicultural lie, an unsuspecting MP in his surgery or Jews going about their business. Unlike the State, I don’t have a hierarchy of victimhood. I just want all the victims of these crimes protected, the culprits named, caught (and preferably hanged), and for the British government finally to live up to its first duty and protect its citizens, whatever their shape, faith, or hue.
So why the persistent refusal of our leaders to identify the cause of this outbreak of anti-Semitism? Because naming it carries a significant political cost. Labour needs those Muslim votes in its urban heartlands. Khan’s mayoralty depends on them. And the entire multiculturalism project cannot easily admit that large-scale immigration from cultures where anti-Semitism is religious and cultural mainstream (and where Christians are regarded as infidels) has imported the problem. Better to talk about ‘tensions’, fund more security (for the many more Mosques too), and hope the Jewish community kick up less of a fuss than a Muslim mob faced with a Muhammad cartoon.
There is also the rather obvious point that in naming the monster, the authorities would have to find a St George willing to slay it!
The real scandal here is not that a Somalian allegedly tried to murder Jews on the streets of London. It is that the people we pay to protect us have decided that noticing, let alone confronting, the imported pattern of antagonism and hostility is the greater crime. Until they name Islamic anti-Semitism, Islamic extremism, Islam plainly: its theological roots, its street-level expression, its electoral value, the ‘pandemic’ Rowley references will only worsen. British Jews should not have to wonder if they belong here, British Jews should not have to wonder if they belong here, and the rest of us should stop pretending we don’t know why they do.
This article appeared in The Frank Report on May 1, 2026, and is republished by kind permission.
