{"id":27441,"date":"2026-05-03T05:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/british-jews-facing-hate-from-all-sides-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T09:11:47","slug":"british-jews-facing-hate-from-all-sides-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stingfm.com\/news\/british-jews-facing-hate-from-all-sides-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"British Jews facing hate from all sides \u2013 police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Social media is to blame for making anti-Semitism \u201cmore and more mainstreamed,\u201d Mark Rowley has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jewish community in the UK is facing its greatest threat, Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Mark Rowley has said in the aftermath of a recent stabbing in London.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, two Jewish men were wounded in a knife attack by a British national of Somali origin in the city\u2019s Golders Green area. The suspect, who was subsequently detained, had also attempted to kill his friend of 20 years the same day. Police say he has a history of serious violence and mental health issues.<\/p>\n

In his interview with the Times on Saturday, Rowley said that \u201cevery racist or extremist or terrorist group has a list of people they hate, because they all create an \u2018other\u2019 who they want to blame everything on,\u201d<\/em> invoking a concept developed by 20th century French psychologist Jaques Lacan.<\/p>\n

According to the police chief, the British Jews \u201care on everybody\u2019s list, all of those hateful groups, whether you\u2019re extreme right, whether you\u2019re extreme left, whether you\u2019re Islamist terrorist, whether you\u2019re right-wing terrorist, and some hostile states as well now, with some sort of Iranian-related threats.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a ghastly Venn diagram that they\u2019re at the middle of,\u201d<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n

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The reason for anti-Semitism \u201cbecoming more and more mainstreamed\u201d<\/em> is social media, which allows an increasing number of people to consume information that reinforces their views from \u201cnon-traditional sources,\u201d<\/em> Rowley claimed.<\/p>\n

The commissioner said he intends to recruit 300 more officers to protect the Jewish sites in London.<\/p>\n

Following the Golders Green incident, the UK terrorism threat level was raised to \u201csevere,\u201d<\/em> which means that an attack is \u201chighly likely.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said earlier that the stabbing was \u201cnot a one-off\u201d<\/em> and that Jewish people in the UK are \u201cscared to show who they are.\u201d<\/em> He vowed to do everything to \u201cstamp this hatred out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The UK has seen an increase in anti-Semitic incidents since Israel began its military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to a deadly incursion by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on October 7, 2023.<\/p>\n

Last month, a group of young men torched four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in Golders Green, the same neighborhood where Wednesday\u2019s stabbings occurred.<\/p>\n

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Over 72,600 people have been killed and over 172,400 wounded by Israel\u2019s airstrikes and ground campaign in Gaza so far, according to figures from the Palestinian health authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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