Support and solidarity after antisemitic stabbings in North London

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Apologies if there's already a thread, I couldn't see one.
Two Jewish men have been stabbed in North London, one outside some shops and another outside a synagogue. According to Sky News the suspect has been tasered and arrested after trying to also attack police officers.
Once again, we have another attack on Jewish people trying to go about their lives. I'm not Jewish but send my support and solidarity to all Jewish people who must feel very scared and vulnerable at the moment. I've already donated to the Campaign Against Antisemitism but I'd love to hear any ideas about how to do more, I just feel so disgusted and outraged that this is happening.

Can you dm bakery? That would be great. And a synagogue if you know of one.
Im just desperate to help even if its only taking some flowers for the synagogue.
I want to DO something .
Im not sitting in horror , being part of the silent majority any longer.
Im sick of the left wing being able to say what they want .
Empty vessels make the most noise is as true today as it ever was,
Im not going to be scared and silent any more,

Synagogues tend to be very closed and protected though- so I doubt you can go to one. What I did after the Manchester attack I sent a card to the synagogue- and made sure I put my full name and address on the back of the envelope as i suspect they had alot of 'anonymous' hate mail as well so thought that might make them more likely to know it's from a friend rather than foe.

I have also been looking for bakeries and restaurants near us also. It's slim pickings where i am but i have to be in London next week and I am determined to go to a Jewish deli etc. I've reached out to our local very small jewish community- they again do not have names or anything other than a generic contact e-mail on their website - but I sent an e-mail there with my name etc and said how sorry I am.

I think that the 'silent majority' do need to be loud now, @DaisyDooley as you say. We need to stand up for what is right and just and moral. Because it's quite terrifying what is happening now.

Weird. I thought this thread would be busier.

I'm a non Jew and don't often get involved. But there really isn't a lot of support on MN as a pp said and I didn't realise until now. Shocking.

If you're there - speak up!

I don't know that, but if I did stab two people I and I alone would be responsible for that.

@Dilbertian "It’s naive to think that the increasing anti-Semitic behaviour is specifically about Israel. This has been going on for 2000 years. Jews have always been targeted purely for being Jews."

Agreed. Jews have always been persecuted and it is merely convenient naivity. Sometimes a banner will be raised to convince others that it is wholly justified and to intensify the persecution. But deep down in the collective psyche, there is a learned hatred of Jews. The "banner" will be seized with alacrity whilst absolving the bearers from prejudice and persecution in a way that does not apply to any other race or group in this day and age. And this is what we are witnessing. I am not Jewish but my father was one of the first allied medics to arrive at Bergen-Belsen. Enough said.

Do you also have empathy for all the other perpretstors of the sntisemitic attacks over the past few years? Who knows, some of them may have had mental health problems too.

He was aware enough to have identified Jewish people, walking past non Jewish people. If he really hadn't known what he was doing he would not have been able to travel to Golders Green, recognise it as a predominantly Jewish are, identified people as Jewish and stabbed them. He had previously been referred to Prevent.

‘Heavy security, huge gates, several security guards’

I think we all need to seriously take a step back and think about our own children in the UK having to go to school like this. If we put ourselves in these parents and children’s shoes it should chill us to the bone in Britain. In 2026.

Of course I do and I have empathy for people with severe mental health issues too. The two are not mutually exclusive

I don’t know the details about this attacker, only that he had a history of mental illness. Psychosis wouldn’t have prevented a person doing what you have said here though.

I am not Jewish, but just wanted to show support to the Jewish community after these appalling attacks yesterday. I was so upset to hear the news.
I am just horrified at the way British Jews are being treated, nobody should need security guards to allow them to safely visit their place of worship.

What is your point? That we should feel sorry for the perpetrator on a thread that is to express support for the victims?

No, I was responding to a question!

Really? So the people who set ambulances on fire, who attacked a synagogue, who shot people dead on Bondi Beach, who raped kidnapped and murdered over a thousand people on Oct 7th all have your empathy? No wonder Jewish people are scared to walk the streets.

Er, no. That’s all.

Actually I remember when a poster said they had equal sympathy for the Manchester Arena bomber as for the victims. I struggle to compute….

Stop!

Sorry, I misread the question. I thought it was asking if I had empathy for other victims of antisemitism not other perpetrators.

Didn’t the new Green MP say something similar?

@DaisyDooley have DM’s you.
I’m visiting next week again, the diet will have to start the following week.
I hope you visit and enjoy. 🥐. They deserve lots of support.

I hate all this nu-think about people with mental health issues not being responsible for their actions.

It's absolute bullshit.

Most people with MH issues do not commit crime.

That’s hardly a logical argument. There are many types and severity of MH issue.
But maybe start a separate thread if you are actually interested in the issue?

Maybe you should start a new thread. Not come onto this one and emote all over the poor foiled murderer.

The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre has just announced that the terror threat level has been raised to severe. Shabana Mahmood said this means a terrorist attack is considered highly likely in the next six months.
I'm thinking of all those in the Jewish community who are probably feeling very vulnerable, but totally unsurprised by this news.
Also earlier today, two Green party candidates have been arrested for posting anti-Semitic images such as a man holding a placard stating "ramming a synagogue isn't anti-Semitism, it's revenge". Where do we go from here when you've got people who are running for election thinking it's acceptable to post things like this?
I'm determined to be more vocal now, I cannot and will not accept that this is happening in Britain in 2026. Not in my name.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/0e30029779148f22

Exactly this. And you wonder why Jews feel ostracised in our home country. As I posted already, there are many anti semites on MN. It it those who have offered support that I am most grateful to. The thread might have got more traffic on AIBU!

As for the poster who supports the terrorist because he has mental ill health - I know many many people with poor mental health, some very serious, and it would never cross their minds to go out with a knife to try and kill anybody, least of all Jews.