It’s only a wake-up call if the callee is conscious. Britain, having been on the receiving end of a steady parade of wake-up calls on anti-Semitism, is either dead or in a coma.
There’s one other possibility, of course: the UK is wide awake to the threat of anti-Semitism but is unbothered by it.
Today’s stabbing attack in the Jewish area of Golders Green suggests the latter. After all, security authorities have been well aware that there is an Iranian proxy group paying people in the UK to go around attacking Jews. This morning it struck again.
One man stabbed two visible Jews in Golders Green before being disarmed by law enforcement. Both are alive in the hospital as of this writing.
The videos are harrowing for their casualness. One victim is waiting at a bus stop and a man walks up to him, takes out a concealed knife and stabs him in the throat. The second attack was on a Jewish passerby.
The stabbings come after a series of attacks on British Jews as part of the global intifada launched in the wake of the October 7 attacks and championed on campuses and other mainstream institutions across the West.
The Iranian-backed group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia is essentially a sleeper cell that works on the freelance model instead of a dedicated stable of repeat attackers or foot soldiers who train and plan for months to carry out a specific attack, thereby leaving the occasional crumb for law enforcement to follow. Akhtar Makoii, the Telegraph’s Iran reporter, explains this particular Iranian threat succinctly and clearly:
“Iran has refined this architecture over decades. The model—create a new organizational name, conduct an attack, publish footage through established proxy channels, then let the trail go cold—is designed specifically to create a signature.
“Particularly alarming to European security officials is the recruitment landscape and the group’s sleeper architecture, which means the cells already active in Europe almost certainly outnumber those yet identified.”
This is merely Iranian opportunism, however. The UK’s longstanding problem with anti-Semitism was waiting to be exploited. The cell seems to be having no trouble finding all these single-use recruits. At their best, the police are simply not up to the task of policing. At their worst—as happened in Birmingham last year—they have essentially colluded with the anti-Semites and fabricated anti-Jewish talking points.
Which is to say that the atmosphere of Jew-hunting in London and Manchester is the fault of those who govern London and Manchester. The ruling Labour Party has demonized the Jewish state and stood with its hands in its pockets as the natural results of that vilification—violence against Jewish Britons—commenced and increased. The Green Party has managed to come back from the electoral fringe by repositioning itself solely as a refuge for the “Gaza left,” a riotously anti-Semitic group of political lowlifes gaining ground in local and municipal elections at an alarming clip thanks to its focus on Jew-baiting.
Iran didn’t make Jew-hatred popular in London and Manchester; it took advantage of it, making it even deadlier. Such anti-Semitism has been on broad display since October 7, and the government of Keir Starmer and David Lammy did nothing but throw occasional fuel on the fire.
Speaking of which: Today’s attacks come while King Charles III is visiting the U.S. The king gave a rousing speech to Congress yesterday and his visit was carefully crafted to buck up the transatlantic alliance. And while the Crown’s diplomatic competence was reassuring to watch, it also highlighted the fact that the United Kingdom has no real head of government. Starmer is prime minister, but he is an unpopular fool with no gravitas and no talent for governing and spectacularly poor judgment. The term “lame duck” does insufficient justice to the contempt Sir Keir’s peers have for him, a contempt Starmer has earned.
The longer Starmer stays in office, the more London and its environs descend into anarchic Jew-purging. His mere presence at 10 Downing is a disgrace, but his exit would be only the beginning of a long process to fix what’s broken.
As for right now: Protect the Jews of Britain, for God’s sake, or enable them to protect themselves.
Source:
www.commentary.org
