Antisemitism Exposed

Britain’s antisemitism crisis could trigger legal reckoning at home and abroad

The UK government recently raised its national threat level from substantial to severe following the latest violent attack on the Jewish community

By Nitsana Darshan-Leitner Fox News

Published May 6, 2026 7:00am EDT

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That morning in Golders Green, one of London’s most visibly Jewish neighborhoods, a man ran through the streets with a knife looking for Jews to stab. He found them. A 70-year-old man. Another in his 30s. Both were attacked outside a synagogue.

By then, the response had become predictable. "Deeply concerning." A line so worn it had lost all meaning. The next day, the U.K. government raised the national threat level "from substantial, meaning an attack is likely, to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely in the next 6 months," the last time it was at that level was in November 2021.

In the weeks leading up to it, a Jewish charity's ambulances had been firebombed in the same neighborhood. A memorial to the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks was burned. Across the country, antisemitic violence has been rising in plain sight. This was not random. It was not isolated. It was a pattern.

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Police officers work by cordon at the junction of Golders Green Road and the North Circular Road, in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London, on April 29, 2026. (Justin Tallis / AFP via Getty Images)

And the response from the British government — statements, candles, patrols — had ceased to be serious. It had become theater.

Two weeks earlier, Shurat HaDin had filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for enabling terror through material support to Iran. The principle was simple: responsibility did not end with the attacker. It extended to those who made the attack possible.

That principle did not stop in Spain.

Britain may not have exported detonators. But it had allowed something else: a climate where........

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