Guarantee The Safety?

Sarah Sackman cannot guarantee the safety of Jews because she cannot guarantee the safety of anyone. In London and elsewhere, people are stabbed all the time, and they do not always survive. Three flag-waving supporters of poor, deluded Reza Pahlavi stabbed a British citizen of Iranian background near Downing Street on 22 April, so only one week ago today. That was a clear act of terrorism, but I do not recall a COBRA meeting about it. Or about the crime for which John Ashby was imprisoned last week. The Southport attacks, which had resulted in three deaths, were not declared a terrorist incident. And so on.

Leaving aside the known mental health problems of the Golders Green suspect, his Defence brief would have a field day with the footage of the Police, at least assisted by a member of the general public, kicking him repeatedly in the head after he had been Tasered. He is probably a user of illegal drugs in general and of cannabis in particular. If he is a Muslim, then it will be of only the most nominal or cultural kind. He will probably never have heard of the Gaza peace marches, banning which would incite riots, which would provide the excuse for further curtailments of civil liberties. In view of how far those had already been curtailed, imagine that anyone else these days were to dare to heckle a Chief Constable and a Government Minister on television. They would be lucky to get only the Palestine Action treatment. They might well end up in Belmarsh with the Ukrainian rent boys.

Just as the FSB, the GRU or the Wagner Group does not call itself "El Money" on Telegram so as to transfer cryptocurrency to Ukrainian rent boys in return for their setting fire to Keir Starmer's private home, old home and old car, so the IRGC, which Donald Trump has made the undisputed ruler of an Iran that his actions have given unchallenged control of the Strait of Hormuz, is behind neither the New IRA, which if anything is more likely to be funded by readers of the New York Post, nor arson attacks by teenagers in the middle of the night on North London's decommissioned private ambulances and its empty buildings. See also nonfatal stabbings by a well-known local, what, schizophrenic? Something like that, anyway. Whether or not such occurrences ought to be considered a national emergency, they are not.