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Chris Selley: Canadian politicians should watch Keir Starmer's defence of British Jews

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Extraordinary scenes from across the pond: Some on the British left wing are upset that Metropolitan Police officers kicked a knife-wielding man several times in the head in an attempt to disarm him.

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This was after the man had apparently stabbed two Jewish men in Golders Green, North London, which is one of the best-known Jewish neighbourhoods in the British capital.

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The head-kicking also came after the officers — who were unarmed, as the vast majority are in London — had deployed a Taser on the alleged attacker. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley says the officers feared the suspect was carrying explosives as well.

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The stabbings of the two Jewish men come just weeks after some cretins in the same neighbourhood torched four volunteer ambulances serving the Jewish community. And seven months after........

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