In recent weeks, London has seen a drone scare near the Israeli embassy, four Hatzola ambulances torched in Golders Green adjacent to a synagogue, an attempted arson attack on Finchley Reform Synagogue, another attempted firebombing at the former Hendon site of Jewish Futures, and now an attempted arson attack on Kenton United Synagogue.
British counterterror police are investigating links to Iran. Are they now? What difference will it make? Another day-after police yellow tape and flashing lights? More piously intoned words of (feigned) concern? Even with the arrests of perpetrators, the attacks won’t stop, and why should they?
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Even the EU finally listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group. But not British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He hasn’t made the call, not even after 45,000 Iranian protesters, young women, businesspeople, doctors, and nurses were butchered by the bloodthirsty Guard thugs. This silence signal is inconceivable but unassailable to the evil doers: The Iranian regime’s “diplomats” in London and their local lackeys can and will go about their bloody business.
First and foremost for the Iranian regime, it’s about genociding the lone Jewish state. Even in defeat, these monsters show there are no red lines when it comes to Israel’s destruction. If given the chance, they will resume raining down thousands more ballistic missiles on Israeli cities. If that avenue is blocked (for now), some drones equipped with nuclear or pathogenic materials targeting Israeli embassies might suffice.
All is fair in love and war, you say?
Consider that the global war centered in Western democracies is weaponizing and normalizing hatred against Jews — all Jews, the Jewish religion, and institutions. When will Starmer open his eyes to the truth? This isn’t about foreign policy disputes, or “Middle East tensions.”
It is a war against Jews.
Synagogues are targeted. Jewish charity premises are targeted. Jewish ambulances that serve the wider public are targeted. British Jews are being targeted where they pray, where they gather, on campuses, where their children learn, and even where their dead are mourned.
The continuing escalation of the war against the Jews in the United Kingdom has already recorded 3,700 antisemitic incidents in 2025 alone, the second-highest annual total ever logged by the Community Security Trust. MI5 said the U.K. has responded to 20 Iran-backed plots presenting potentially lethal threats to British citizens and U.K. residents since the start of 2022. Twenty plots. Not rumors. Not social media hysteria. Twenty state-linked threats serious enough to trigger action.
So when the next attack is launched, God forbid, when more Jewish blood is spilled, nobody in government gets to act shocked. The pattern is here. Iran’s regime and supporters learned a simple lesson: Britain is soft, hesitant, and addicted to euphemism.
The Telegraph reports on an Iranian “spy recruitment hub” operating in London, centered on Press TV, Iran’s English-language state outlet. The allegation is not merely that Press TV spreads propaganda. It is that it has been used as a front to identify and cultivate assets in Britain, while its reporting on Jewish organizations has been compared to a “target list for terrorists.” The Telegraph added that Press TV has been sanctioned or restricted in the EU, the United States, Canada, and Australia, but not in the U.K. It is the Jews of England who pay the price for the political negligence and cowardice of the authorities.
So as Britain debates words and weighs its shrinking influence on the world stage, British Jews are left to live behind bollards, cameras, guards, and police tape.
This is how democratic societies decay: First, they tolerate intimidation, then they normalize it, then they explain it away. A house of worship is attacked, ambulances are burned, a foreign regime’s propaganda arm is functioning as a hate recruitment platform in London, and each of these outrages spawns meaningless official words, no action, no sense of urgency.
Does anyone actually care beyond the radius of embattled British Jewry?
Actually, yes. Here’s an exchange between Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch and LBC presenter Nick Ferrari broadcast on April 20.
Badenoch: “As a black woman in this country, I have never seen the level of racism, discrimination, intimidation and attacks that have been directed at the Jewish community, and I think that if the people were firebombing black churches, we’d be calling, the way that, synagogues have been attacked, people killed, being firebombed, the ambulance services being firebombed, I think there’d be a national emergency. I think we’re getting to that stage.”
Ferrari: “She’s right, you know. I am thinking of the area in which I live, and it is quite close to a number of churches that are very busy on Sunday, very busy with a black congregation. If they had been targeted in the same way, I think we probably would be looking at a national emergency. I certainly think we’d hear more than just these warm words of ‘We stand alongside our Jewish brothers and sisters’ … We’d have much more direct action, wouldn’t we?”
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So, to extrapolate from what Badenoch just said, “do we not care about the Jews as much as we do about black people, and if so, why? That’s the logical, logical conclusion.”
Logical, indeed.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper is Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) and former Chair of US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Daniel Schuster is the SWC’s Senior Representative in Europe.
