The stabbing of two Jewish men in broad daylight in Golders Green this Wednesday wasn’t a random act of ‘far-right thuggery’, to use the Prime Minister’s favourite bête noire. It was a terrorist incident. Two men – Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were attacked because they were visibly Jewish by the ‘British’ Somalian, Essa Suleiman, 45, who has now been charged with attempted murder. While an Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the official response from those running the country has been the same linguistic dance of Tiptoe Through the Tulips we have witnessed since October 2023.
Prime Minister Starmer called it “utterly appalling”. Sir Mark Rowley, referenced “a pandemic of antisemitism”. Sadiq Khan meanwhile, insisted he was “angry, appalled and disgusted” – which, presumably, is supposed to impress us. What would have impressed me, would have been the one word they all defiantly refuse to acknowledge – the cause.
Not being as reliably coy as our leaders however, I’ll take a stab: I think the cause of the Jew-hatred we are witnessing day-in, day-out on the streets of Britain is Islamic extremism; a direct consequence of Islam and its adherents, whom our betters seem increasingly unwilling to allow us to live without. While the authorities assuage their consciences by condemning “antisemitism” and “extremism from all sides”, they are more reluctant to lift a finger when it comes to hate march singers rehearsing their back catalogue of “Death to the Jews”, “Globalise the intifada”, “From the river to the sea”, and convoys driving through London screaming such nebulous phrases as “Fuck the Jews”, “Rape their daughters” and “Fuck their mothers”. The consequences for which, it must be said, are close to zero.
The data is unequivocal. According to the Community Security Trust’s figures, the surge in antisemitism is tied to the Israel-Palestine discourse, with 2025 recording 3,700 antisemitic incidents – the second highest on record. Even according to Home Office figures, antisemitic incidents are almost on par with anti-Muslim ones; when you consider the tiny size of the Jewish population, it works out at that Jews are targeted at a rate of 10:1.
The Muslim population meanwhile is not tiny, and is growing at an alarming rate – 75% every ten years, according to Nigel Farage. This could be problematic, not least because of the attitudes held by British Muslims. In terms of the Jewish community, here is a concise summary:
- Almost half of British Muslims say Jews have too much power over UK government policy
- Only one in four British Muslims believe Hamas committed murder and rape in Israel on October 7th
- Only one in four British Muslims believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish homeland
- Almost half of British Muslims feel more sympathy with Hamas than Israel
- More than half of British Muslims believe the BBC is biased towards Israel
Disturbing stuff – it’s too bad the most common baby name in Britain is Muhammad, not Jacob.
Neither is it mere demography resulting in a rise in antisemitism. A significant proportion has been and is being imported on a daily basis, quite literally by those crossing the Channel in small boats. Mosab Abdulkarim Al-Gassas, a Gazan in his 30s, arrived illegally in Kent on a migrant dinghy in March 2025. Days later he was arrested. He is a self-declared Hamas supporter who prayed for “Allah to kill all Jews,” posed with gunmen, and had participated in attacks on Israel. Abdullah Albadri, who twice broke into Britain via a dinghy, was arrested in 2025 attempting to scale the Israeli embassy fence with two knives. His intended suicide note read thus: “I will not go back on my decision to go in the cause of Allah, to come out for His sake and to stand up to the enemies in order to support the religion of Allah Almighty.” These are not abstract statistics, these are men who directly came to Britain to kill Jews.
Many commentators have argued that the London hate marches created this hatred, but they are naïve in the extreme. Like so many other facets of Muslim behaviour, they were testing the water. And the abject cowardice and moral bankruptcy of the authorities, gave them the legitimacy they sought. Whether it’s two-tier policing, joke sentences or community orders handed down for the gang-rape of little white girls, marauding thugs being patiently asked to “stash the weapons at the mosque”, or the pathetic refusal to proscribe the IRGC, the British State has proved time and time again that it has absolutely no intention of dealing with the problem of Islam, and now we see the consequences.
Let me be clear: I’m not prioritising antisemitism, Jews, or Jew-hatred – we have Muslims more than willing to do that. I don’t particularly care who the victims of Islamic extremism are – whether it’s workers trying to enjoy a quiet pint after work at London Bridge, revellers doing their best to ‘enjoy’ Ariana Grande, white girls being gang-raped for the sake of a multicultural lie, or Jews going about their business. Unlike the State, I don’t have a hierarchy of victimhood. I just want the victims of crime protected, the culprits named, caught (and preferably hung), and for the British government to finally live up to its first duty and protect its citizens, whatever shape, faith and hue they happen to come in.
So why the persistent refusal of our leaders to name the cause of this outbreak of antisemitism? Because naming it carries a significant political cost. Labour needs those Muslim votes in its urban heartlands. Khan’s mayoralty depends on them. And the entire multiculturalism project cannot easily admit that large-scale immigration from cultures where antisemitism is religious and cultural mainstream has imported the problem. Better to talk about “tensions,” fund more security, and hope the Jewish community kick up less of a fuss than a Muslim mob faced with a Muhammad cartoon.
There is also the rather obvious point that in naming the monster, the authorities would have to find a St George willing to slay it!
The real scandal here is not that a Somalian allegedly tried to murder Jews on the streets of London. It is that the people we pay to protect us have decided noticing the imported pattern is the greater crime. Until they name Islamic antisemitism, Islamic extremism, Islam plainly: its theological roots, its street-level expression, its electoral value, the “pandemic” Rowley references will only worsen. British Jews should not have to wonder if they belong here, and the rest of us should not have to pretend we don’t know why they do.
Frank Haviland is the author of Banalysis: The Lie Destroying the West and The Frank Report Substack.
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As usual, wise words leading to a considered and correct conclusion.