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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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Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 16:18

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:17

So you don’t want to explain what a pro-pal is?

Guessing it’s ’pro-Palestinian’?

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:19

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 16:18

Guessing it’s ’pro-Palestinian’?

Thanks. Not sure what that has to do with the OP’s post, it’s just derailment.

Smilesinthesunshine · 02/05/2026 16:19

This is completely ridiculous. First guy was an acquaintance, a fellow Islamist that had obvious pissed him off. He then went on to commit a terrorist attack on two poor Jewish people going about their daily business. Truly sickening.

Emilesgran · 02/05/2026 16:20

Poetnojo · 02/05/2026 15:19

It's kinda like how most people here would recognise the name Stephen Lawrence but might not recall the names of Tyler McDermott, Leonardo Reid, Klevi Shekaj, Abdul Hafidah, Kacem Mokrane, Deshaun James-Tuitt, Rhyhiem Barton or Kelvin Easton.

TBF Stephen Lawrence's murder was shocking because he was apparently chosen at random just because of his skin colour, while all those others you mention were either personal disputes or gang warfare.

I think a closer comparison is the murder of Kriss Donald, who, like Stephen Lawrence, was picked because he was a "white boy from the McCulloch Street area" despite having no involvement in any gang activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kriss_Donald

That said, your point stands, because yes, it's strange that everyone still knows about Stephen Lawrence, but nobody seems to care much about poor Kriss Donald.

Murder of Kriss Donald - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kriss_Donald

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:20

DesolatedCheese · 02/05/2026 10:21

Isn't it just to do with how typical news reporting works?

A man stabbing a man at home, who are known to each other, is not an unusual event. It happens all the time and large numbers of these attacks don't really make the news. It's generally considered low interest by news reporting (or so I was taught in sociology at college a decade ago...)

A politically motivated, terror stabbing doesn't happen very often and so is of high interest.

In this case, it seems Essa Suleiman appears to have first commited the first, low news interest, type of murder then followed by the second high news interest type of murder.

It makes sense that in this case there would be some reporting on the first murder but a focus on the second and third. It entirely fits with how reporting is generally done on murder. Lots of murders never make the press (or go beyond basic local news reporting). I've certainly known one that never went beyond a single story in the local press on the culmination of the trial and sentencing.

Edited

We don't know if it is a terror-related stabbing. We don't know the facts. We do know he stabbed three people, that luckily none of them were fatal (probably due to using a short-bladed knife not a machete/zombie knife), that he had mental health issues. That really is as good as it gets at the moment. We also have to remember that terrorism has been redefined after the Southport killings, so that an ideology does not have to be a motivation.

TwitterRatti · 02/05/2026 16:20

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:17

So you don’t want to explain what a pro-pal is?

Sure. Pro pal = pro Palestine.

I've answered your question, so your turn.

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:22

Hoardasurass · 02/05/2026 10:27

No it doesn't he stabbed his friend and then he went on his racially motivated terrorist attack.
It is quite possible that his friend tried to stop him or a dispute with the friend was the trigger for his terrorist attacks.
The fact is we don't know yet because all the facts wont come out until the trial and that is normal.

We don't know if it was racially motivated. It may well be, but we honestly don't know.

Emilesgran · 02/05/2026 16:22

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:20

We don't know if it is a terror-related stabbing. We don't know the facts. We do know he stabbed three people, that luckily none of them were fatal (probably due to using a short-bladed knife not a machete/zombie knife), that he had mental health issues. That really is as good as it gets at the moment. We also have to remember that terrorism has been redefined after the Southport killings, so that an ideology does not have to be a motivation.

I'd put my month's salary on it though. Are you prepared to do the same and bet the same on it not being related to islamism, but just a random MH attack?

Whysnothingsimple · 02/05/2026 16:22

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:10

Thanks. As you can see by the number of deleted posts attacking me, it’s standard derailment tactics.

Really not worth engaging with them.

As you seem very keen on facts are you going to ask this poster who they think has been killed and why they are getting very basic facts about the case wrong (eg that the first victim is alive with apparently minor injuries)?

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 16:23

Twiglets1 · 02/05/2026 16:04

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.

@MurkyMo it was reported in the news that this is one reason it was reported as a racist antisemitic attack

Hoardasurass · 02/05/2026 16:23

Anyahyacinth · 02/05/2026 15:41

Don't you believe in innocent until proven guilty ?

That someone with MH difficulties is often hospitalised (as this person was) rather than convicted of a crime.

This isn't the simple situation you claim...which is the point of the post

Legally yes innocent until proven guilty.
Realistically with the cctv footage, body camera footage and the bystander footage no.
Many mentally ill people are convicted of crimes and spend their time in secure prisons like broadmoor, others go to jail.
He is known to be violent having been convicted of stabbing police officers and a police dog in 2008 and was jailed for it. He is also known to have been reported to prevent.
The counter terrorist police have deemed it a terrorist attack
So yes it is that simple

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:23

Whysnothingsimple · 02/05/2026 16:22

As you seem very keen on facts are you going to ask this poster who they think has been killed and why they are getting very basic facts about the case wrong (eg that the first victim is alive with apparently minor injuries)?

Why can’t you ask them yourself? Am i your interlocutor?

BackToLurk · 02/05/2026 16:23

It's very simple @nomas The OP claimed that the third' (in fact first) victim 'Isn't being mentioned anywhere', despite the fact that the Met Police press release in the linked tweet mentioned them. As did multiple news reports. So then there had to be a pivot to "ah well they mention it, but they don't really give it the importance of the other attacks". To which the responses were along the lines of "that's probably because the first victim was known to the attacker. It was a personal dispute (depressingly common and rarely reported), whereas the subsequent attacks were racially targetted" (at this point we should remember that the attacker was already known to Prevent).

We then saw the bizarre spectacle of posters who were stating the obvious - assaults on people attackers know are massively more common than random attacks in the street, and reporting reflects this (News values) - being accused of minimising an assault by posters who seemed very keen on minimising the level of antisemitism in the UK. Using a range of tactics from not understanding 'per capita' and suggesting it's "just because the Jews know how to report things" to painting it as all part of 'the narrative' (we're yet to discover what this is) and a surreptitious Jewish oops Zionist plot to stop marches.

But yea 'derailment'

Whysnothingsimple · 02/05/2026 16:24

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:20

We don't know if it is a terror-related stabbing. We don't know the facts. We do know he stabbed three people, that luckily none of them were fatal (probably due to using a short-bladed knife not a machete/zombie knife), that he had mental health issues. That really is as good as it gets at the moment. We also have to remember that terrorism has been redefined after the Southport killings, so that an ideology does not have to be a motivation.

Yet the police who are interviewing the suspect have labelled it a terror attack.

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:25

ProudAmberTurtle · 02/05/2026 10:32

There were not three victims in the Golders Green terrorist attack, there were two.

The man who tried to mass murder Jews and the police also stabbed someone he knew in a personal dispute the day before the attack, miles away in Southwark. He then travelled to a Jewish area to kill.

It's obvious what this thread is trying to achieve, by subtly providing racist misinformation. Am surprised Mumsnet hasn't deleted it yet.

So this man with mental health issues stabs different people over several days. That is all we know at this time. We don't know the motive for any of them. It could be that he was targeting Jewish people. But we really can't say we know that yet. To me, it seems he has stabbed a range of people. Are any of those stabbings worse than others? That is a matter of opinion.

Dorisbonson · 02/05/2026 16:25

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 02/05/2026 10:02

What is the narrative? That Jewish people have been subject to racially aggravated attacks in this country at a far higher scale per head of population than any other group? Do you think these are all ' false flag' operations?

Of course all the attacks on Jewish people are false flag operations just like the false flag assassination attempts on Donald Trump and Prince Philip's plan to murder Diana in Paris.

In previous decades these people would have been ignored as drunks and lunatics, these days they post on the Internet.

Tikitaka20 · 02/05/2026 16:26

samthepigeon · 02/05/2026 16:22

We don't know if it was racially motivated. It may well be, but we honestly don't know.

Why would it not be racially motivated? It’s been reported by police via the media that he was attacking ‘visibly Jewish’ people, who were wearing traditionally Jewish clothes in the BBC footage of the attack, in a known Jewish area (Golders Green in London). It is a racially motivated attack.

Hoardasurass · 02/05/2026 16:27

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:45

In what way were the 2 men "visibly Jewish"?

Their religious clothing

Whysnothingsimple · 02/05/2026 16:27

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:23

Why can’t you ask them yourself? Am i your interlocutor?

Oh I already have, as have several others but they’re just ignoring it, as I know you were very particular about a certain fact of the case previously, I was helpfully pointing out you might have better luck clearing up, what I’m sure you’ll agree is a lie. Obviously you don’t want misinformation circulating

Pluto46 · 02/05/2026 16:27

I would have expected MN to be flooded with posts about this incident but it seems strangely quiet. All those bots must have been programmed to the inherent MN left wing bias

Northermcharn · 02/05/2026 16:28

Desperatelyseekinglazysusan · 02/05/2026 09:58

Because the first one was a personal dispute. Not a racially motivated attack on him because he was Muslim.

Yes exactly. The media haven't failed to mention him either.

AcquadiP · 02/05/2026 16:28

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 02/05/2026 16:08

You got there before me nomas

I really don’t understand why so many people are derailing here ?!

What’s going on
Does no one give a toss about the first person that was killed
How utterly disrespectful !

The first person Essa Suleiman attacked was his Muslim friend, who sustained minor injuries. The two Jewish men he attacked were hospitalised, one has since been released. No-one, thankfully, has died. ES has been charged with three counts of attempted murder. All of this information is on the TV news channels and in the newspapers. The media have not failed to report on the Muslim gentleman, that's just misinformation.

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:28

Whysnothingsimple · 02/05/2026 16:27

Oh I already have, as have several others but they’re just ignoring it, as I know you were very particular about a certain fact of the case previously, I was helpfully pointing out you might have better luck clearing up, what I’m sure you’ll agree is a lie. Obviously you don’t want misinformation circulating

You need to ask your own questions and not rely on me. I’m not your secretary.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 02/05/2026 16:30

MurkyMo · 02/05/2026 15:07

Of course there is. The disproportionate coverage given to this on Radio 4 this week was unbelievable, wall to wall on Today for one example. Starmer calling a COBRA meeting. And this is then coupled with calls to ban the next anti-Israeli genocide march. It's al being used to ban and silence the anti-Israel voice.

Israeli genocide, I didn’t know they were having a march against the genocidal intent of the countries surrounding Israel of the genocide of all Jews.

nomas · 02/05/2026 16:30

Smilesinthesunshine · 02/05/2026 16:19

This is completely ridiculous. First guy was an acquaintance, a fellow Islamist that had obvious pissed him off. He then went on to commit a terrorist attack on two poor Jewish people going about their daily business. Truly sickening.

So the Muslim victim must be an Islamist?

Wow.

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