When I read the headline – ‘two people stabbed in Golders Green’ – my initial reaction was not one of shock. It was the grim recognition that something which should be unthinkable no longer is.

Just hours ago, a man armed with a knife was seen running through the high street, targeting Jewish people in the area. Shomrim, the Jewish community security organisation, responded immediately and detained a suspect before police arrived and made an arrest. The victims are being treated by Hatzola – the same organisation whose ambulances were set on fire across the road from today’s incident just last month.

In parliament, Keir Starmer described the attack as ‘deeply concerning’. This is not deeply concerning. This is an outrage.

Golders Green is not an abstract symbol. It is a living, breathing community – the heart of north-west London’s Jewish life, lined with kosher restaurants, synagogues and families who have been there for generations. Many of the Jewish people who settled here came from Eastern Europe before and after the second world war, arriving in a country they believed would keep them........

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