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Met police are erasing the third victim of the Golders Green stabbing

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tulippetals · 02/05/2026 09:54

https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/2050114417405132857?s=46

I am actually horrified. A third, Muslim, man was stabbed in the attack but he isn’t being mentioned anywhere. How is this allowed?!

Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) on X

A man will appear in court today charged following a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into two men stabbed in #GoldersGreen: https://t.co/BgK04EQmyX

https://x.com/metpoliceuk/status/2050114417405132857?s=46

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Winter2020 · 02/05/2026 15:50

There were 49,151 knife crimes last year
(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c30re70lqn1o) so without the racist persecution element knife crime is so common as to be a non story in modern Britain.

I hadn't seen anything about this car being burnt outside a Mosque but then I also hadn't seen anything about the private ambulances paid for by the Jewish community being torched until I read someone on here moaning about London NHS loaning them some of theirs. Arson it seems is also nothing remarkable in society today.

PatriciaRocks · 02/05/2026 15:51

mugglewump · 02/05/2026 15:48

People's responses to this post are so confusing: surely, a man that stabs 3 people in one day is clearly mentally very unstable. By not mentioning his first victim, you are making his crimes soley racial and not because of mental health issues.

Who hasn't mentioned the first victim?
Have you been following this thread?

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 15:51

mugglewump · 02/05/2026 15:48

People's responses to this post are so confusing: surely, a man that stabs 3 people in one day is clearly mentally very unstable. By not mentioning his first victim, you are making his crimes soley racial and not because of mental health issues.

His crimes can be both racially motivated and caused by mental health issues. That’s entirely possible. The police wouldn’t have said he was hunting for ‘visibly Jewish’ people to injure or kill unless they were absolutely certain. So he can be both mentally ill and antisemitic.

Twiglets1 · 02/05/2026 15:51

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 15:46

The problem is they don’t seem to care.

I’m not Jewish but am disgusted by the recent increase in antisemitism.

We should absolutely be discussing and calling out antisemitism, but I don’t know how to get through to antisemites that their beliefs are incorrect and vile. I would genuinely welcome advice on this.

Whenever they’re rightly called out on their inaccurate and awful beliefs, they just see to double down on them and blame their opponents on being part of a Jewish conspiracy or being ‘pro-Israel’. I’m appalled by what the current Israeli government is doing and by antisemitism, and I think you can hold both thoughts in your head at the same time.

I don't know what the answer is.

It's important to challenge people if you have the mental energy to do so, but you also have to accept I think that some beliefs are so ingrained that no amount of logical argument will make a difference.

PhaedraTwo · 02/05/2026 15:52

tulippetals · 02/05/2026 10:00

He was mentally unwell. It’s actually vile that people are trying to erase the third victim because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

It's actually vile that you are trying to downplay antisemitism.

Twiglets1 · 02/05/2026 15:53

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 15:51

His crimes can be both racially motivated and caused by mental health issues. That’s entirely possible. The police wouldn’t have said he was hunting for ‘visibly Jewish’ people to injure or kill unless they were absolutely certain. So he can be both mentally ill and antisemitic.

Yes - as seems to be the case with this man based on what the authorities have said about his background and on which strangers he chose to vent his anger on.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 02/05/2026 15:54

nomas · 02/05/2026 14:31

The thread is about this. Read the title.

Yes you keep trying to misdirect with that.
What exactly is your agenda as if we didn’t know.

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inamarina · 02/05/2026 15:55

BackToLurk · 02/05/2026 15:26

They also seem to be entirely ignorant of the existence of Tell Mama.

I was wondering about that too. But then, didn’t one of their links describe the situation in Switzerland rather than the UK?

HoldingTheDoor · 02/05/2026 15:56

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 15:39

He had already been tassered !!!
he was on the ground

Are you in favour of police brutality because I certainly do not condone it. On anyone.

Yes in the ground but still in possession of the weapon and not fully secured therefore he was still a threat.

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:56

Hoardasurass · 02/05/2026 15:43

You mean apart from the fact that he traveled to a Jewish area and attacked visibly Jewish men, or that he was known to police and prevent, or that counter terrorist police have designated it as an antisemitic terrorist attack.

What does it mean to say "visibly Jewish men" What made them visibly Jewish ?? I ask because i haven't seen any photos of either of them.

Poetnojo · 02/05/2026 15:56

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 15:46

Wow

you do realise the irony of your comment
grouping all protesters under one banner ????
Just as others disgustingly view the British Jewish community now because of the Israeli Government actions

They are not all the same !!

They are not all racist anti semites and to assume they are one
is considered a form of prejudice and a fundamental component of racism, stereotyping, and discrimination. !!!!

Oh the irony !

Yes, all the anti semites are crawling out of the woodwork and 'marching'

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 15:56

tulippetals · 02/05/2026 10:00

He was mentally unwell. It’s actually vile that people are trying to erase the third victim because it doesn’t fit the narrative.

They’re not trying to erase the third victim! In every single news story I’ve read or watched on this - and every person I’ve spoken to about it - the third victim has been mentioned.

The point is that the attacker injured his first victim - his friend - and then travelled to Golders Green, a known Jewish area, to find ‘visibly Jewish’ people to injure. That premeditation - and the fact he was targeting people from a specific community - makes his crime extremely serious.

He can be both mentally ill and antisemitic. That’s completely possible.

PatriciaRocks · 02/05/2026 15:57

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:56

What does it mean to say "visibly Jewish men" What made them visibly Jewish ?? I ask because i haven't seen any photos of either of them.

They were wearing kippahs and other identifying traditional clothing.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 02/05/2026 15:58

AngryHerring · 02/05/2026 14:34

tell you what: if every woman who was attacked and ended up with serious injuries or dead appeared in all news reports, then i would be with you on this.

Women are murdered at a rate of just over 2 per week. I hope you are shouting for every single one of them to have their own news report.

Otherwise, it might look as though you are trying to minimise an antisemitic attack, wouldn't it?

Oh surely you aren’t trying to minimise an antiSemitic attack are you @KeepPumping ….although looking at your other posts on this thread that is the only conclusion any one with a brain can see very clearly.

wrongthinker · 02/05/2026 15:59

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:56

What does it mean to say "visibly Jewish men" What made them visibly Jewish ?? I ask because i haven't seen any photos of either of them.

I would have thought it's fairly obvious? You can recognise orthodox Jews by their dress. Other Jews also wear kippah, for example.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 02/05/2026 16:00

TheGander · 02/05/2026 14:38

There’s no getting away from the fact that pretty much all the violent and murderous attacks on Jews of late, in the U.K., in Europe, in Australia, have been carried out by radicalised Muslims. Not right wing thugs, who if they are antisemitically inclines tend to favour stuff such as painting swastikas in Jewish cemeteries or hurling insults at Jews from passing cars.

This I’m afraid.
I would also suggest that this is very much played down generally.

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:01

wrongthinker · 02/05/2026 15:26

It's not, though. The thread is about a claim that this victim has been 'erased' by the media. This claim has been proven to be false.

The thread is about the third victim. Denying that is absurd..

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 02/05/2026 16:02

AngryHerring · 02/05/2026 14:40

ok you keep pretending to yourself that antisemitic attacks haven't increased and i will continue to think people like you are trying to minimise it for some reason.

Mainly peaceful protests? that means that at least some of the protests haven't been peaceful, right?

I agree very clear they are trying to minimise it.

Hoardasurass · 02/05/2026 16:03

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 15:25

Starmer is utterly clueless
How can he deem police brutality acceptable.
What next from this Labour Govn !

What police brutality?
Though I do agree that starmer is generally clueless

Poetnojo · 02/05/2026 16:04

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:56

What does it mean to say "visibly Jewish men" What made them visibly Jewish ?? I ask because i haven't seen any photos of either of them.

It's kind of like asking how could you tell that a woman wearing a Niqab was Muslim.

wrongthinker · 02/05/2026 16:04

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:01

The thread is about the third victim. Denying that is absurd..

I thought you weren't engaging with me after I sussed out your game.

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 16:04

MaidOfSteel · 02/05/2026 15:44

I think it’s vile that you and others are trying to deflect from, even lessen, a horrific, targeted, racially motivated attack on two Jewish men by a terrorist.

What the hell is happening in this country? I can’t believe we’ve come to this. Open anti-semitism. It’s bloody shameful.

Agree ten fold

lets talk about the rise in antisemitism

but
The poster and OP are talking about the other person that was killed
and I’m surprised people have an issue with treating everyone equally and talking about that too !

There is another thread on the attack of the other two Jewish people in Golders Green.

Anyone talking about the third person
is not a derail
@tulippetals wants to give them space too

So anyone discussing anything other is actually the derail

which
Seems to be most of this thread.

Shame on people here for not allowing a platform to discuss the other person
What is the problem with discussing others who have been attacked and
if so
Why ??
Why won’t people allow the discussion ??

Lets allow equality to thrive
We live in a democratic society where we are all, or at least should be, treated equally
So let’s live up to that and respect everyone
Who ever they are
With equal respect

Twiglets1 · 02/05/2026 16:04

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:56

What does it mean to say "visibly Jewish men" What made them visibly Jewish ?? I ask because i haven't seen any photos of either of them.

At least one of them (the 76-year-old) was wearing a kippah, which is a Jewish men's head covering. Not sure about the other one, maybe he was equally wearing something that identified him as Jewish as there seems no doubt about it.

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:06

wrongthinker · 02/05/2026 16:04

I thought you weren't engaging with me after I sussed out your game.

Just stating a fact.

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