LONDON — Scared, angry at the government, and wondering whether they need to leave the country, British Jews in the north London suburb of Golders Green were reeling a day after a terrorist attacker stabbed two men in the street.

Members of the Jewish community said they were looking for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to show he can address the root causes of increasingly frequent antisemitic attacks and keep them safe.

“People are really concerned, people are afraid, people are uncomfortable walking in the street, people are blaming obviously the government for not doing anything about what’s going on,” Shloime Rand, one of the men stabbed on Wednesday, told ITV News. Both victims are in a stable condition.

Wednesday’s stabbing was the most serious and violent in a spate of recent attacks aimed at Jews in London, and comes less than a year after a deadly attack at a synagogue in Manchester.

Starmer, whose wife is Jewish, has pledged more funding for community policing organizations, including the one that helped stop Wednesday’s knifeman, and has promised legislation to stop “malign state actors” hiring proxies to conduct attacks.

“We must absolutely deal with the root causes of both antisemitism and extremism,” Starmer said as he held a meeting with criminal justice agencies.

New attack, old response

For some, the official response felt all too familiar.

A Jewish News digital front page decried what it called a “Bull$#@# Bingo” response, declaring “Jews Bleed. Cue........

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