Has antisemitism become a national emergency?
4/29/202646 min
Two men stabbed in broad daylight in Golders Green this morning became the latest victims of what Kemi Badenoch has called a national emergency of antisemitism. The last month has seen multiple attacks on the Jewish community of North London. Is this an orchestrated attack underwritten by Iran? Or is it further proof of the escalation of antisemitism in our country since the war in Gaza and Israel?
Later, has the King nailed it in Washington? Or did that fine speech change absolutely nothing?
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First 90 secondsLewis Goodall· Host0:00
[digital music] This is a Global Player original podcast.
Jon Sopel· Host0:05
A religion is now being singled out and targeted for attack in this country none of us have seen in our lifetimes.
Emily Maitlis· Host0:13
Keir Starmer was visiting a synagogue last week. He called out Zac Polanski, the Green leader, as disgraceful. Do you agree with Keir Starmer?
Speaker 30:22
If you want to understand the actual threat that Jews face, just turn on the news today.
Lewis Goodall· Host0:26
Keir Starmer tweeted, "We hear these sorts of words a lot. What is going to be done?"
Jon Sopel· Host0:31
You feel you're back in a ghetto that was belonged to an era before the Second World War.
Speaker 30:37
When I say that an attack on Britain's Jews is an attack on Britain itself, I mean it.
Emily Maitlis· Host0:42
That's Sarah Sackman. She's the Justice Minister, but she's also the MP in Golders Green, where just hours ago, two people were stabbed in broad daylight by a man with a knife, the latest attack on the Jewish community of North London.
Jon Sopel· Host0:58
Yeah, and it comes in a series of attacks on the Jewish community. Kemi Badenoch has called it a national emergency of antisemitism. Is she right? Welcome to the News Agents.
Lewis Goodall· Host1:12
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Jon Sopel· Host1:19
It's John.
Emily Maitlis· Host1:22
It's Maitlis.
Lewis Goodall· Host1:23
It's Lewis.
Jon Sopel· Host1:23
And we are recording this at one thirty-five, sort of lunchtime, on Wednesday,