Yesterday afternoon there was an anti-semitic knife attack in a neighborhood called Golders Green in north London. A man with a knife walked through the streets and stabbed two Jewish men at random before police showed up and tased him.
The assailant has now been identified as a man born in Somalia named Essa Suleiman.
BREAKING: The suspect in the Golders Green terror attack has been identified as Essa Suleiman — Somali-born, with a prior history of violence, including stabbing two police officers and a police dog in 2008.
Why wasn’t he deported in 2008? pic.twitter.com/l866Ebuk2i
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 30, 2026
Suleiman previously was sentenced to 9 years in prison for attacking a police officer and his police dog with a knife.
Police had been called to a flat in Briarswood Court, Liden, Swindon at around 2pm 3rd January 2008.
The officer and Anya chased the suspect as he fled, but the man lunged, stabbing the officer repeatedly in the head, face and leg with what is believed to be a bread knife and attacking the dog in the chest.
The injuries were severe enough that the officer was unable to work for 5 months after the attack. Here’s a photo of his previous victims.
Suleiman was jailed for nine years in 2008 for grievous bodily harm over the stabbings, with at least half to be served in custody
PC Neil Sampson was responding to a 999 knife attack call in Swindon when he was assaulted. As he and his police dog, Anya, chased the suspect, the… pic.twitter.com/0ZYWQkaGcR
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 30, 2026
Suleiman was also referred to PREVENT in 2020 which is a UK watchlist of sorts designed to intervene before people become radicalized and commit terrorist acts. His case was closed later the same year.
Nigel Farage says his party would have handled the previous case differently.
The Golders Green suspect was previously sentenced to 9 years in prison for stabbing a police officer and his dog.
Reform UK would strip Essa Suleiman of his citizenship and deport him from the country.
— Nigel Farage MP (@Nigel_Farage) April 30, 2026
In any case, the person who is the PM now, Sir Keir Starmer, showed up in Golders Green yesterday afternoon so he could say he’d been there. He was booed when he arrived.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is booed by Jewish people as he arrives near the Golders Green terror attack scene
🎥 Paul Brand pic.twitter.com/jRSJ2yCArc
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 30, 2026
They are none too fond.
🚨Another angle of Keir Starmer’s arrival near Golders Green.
You can hear just how loud and furious the locals are 😳
Chants exploding:
“Keir Starmer, Jew Harmer!” “Traitor!” “Shame on you!”
The anger is deafening. pic.twitter.com/Tivn42UYBz
— J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) April 30, 2026
Later he gave a speech at No. 10. which, as speeches go, wasn’t too bad. I’ll include that below but first one of the victims of yesterday’s attack spoke to the BBC from the hospital. He says Jews aren’t safe on London’s streets.
Shloime Rand, the 34-year-old victim of the Golders Green stabbing attack, has spoken to the BBC from hospital…
Recounting Wednesday’s attack, he says he was walking down the street when the attacker came towards him and “just stabbed me in the chest”…
Asked whether enough had been done to deal with antisemitism, Rand says: “Definitely not. Maybe from now on, you know, government will pull their socks up and begin dealing with the problem properly.”…
“You know, when it’s come to a point that people’s lives are in danger… I have all friends and people telling me they’re scared to walk in the street, and they look all around them, they don’t know what’s going on.
Another Jewish resident of Golders Greer said they’ve been thinking they need to leave the UK because it’s no longer safe.
Golders Green resident David Baddiel tells the BBC “that there’s not much future for Jewish people here in the UK” following recent attacks.
“I thought about this a year ago. I’ve been planning it for a year and I keep thinking, ‘am I doing the right thing?’ Every time I come up with the same conclusion: yes, get out,” he says…
“It’s not what I want to do, it’s what I have to do.”
In is speech at No. 10, Starmer first said that this attack was not a one-off and connected it with a series of other attacks aimed at Jews which have happened recently. But the big news was his suggestion near the end of the speech that the attack was connected to antisemitic views being shared during pro-Palestinian protest marches:
The prime minister references behaviour at pro-Palestinian marches, saying that while “of course” the UK protects freedom of speech, “if you are marching with people wearing pictures of paragliders without calling it out, you are venerating the murder of Jews,” he says.
He adds: “If you are standing alongside people saying ‘globalise the intifada’, you are calling for terrorism against Jews.”
Starmer says that people who use that phrase “should be prosecuted”, as it is “extreme racism”.
The people organizing those marches were not happy about being singled out.
Referring to comments from Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism and state threats legislation, the campaign group said: “Statements… suggesting that the Palestine marches should be subject to a ‘moratorium’ because of the series of antisemitic attacks in North London, are unacceptable.”
The group said it condemned antisemitic attacks and all forms of racism “unequivocally”.
As an American, I’m generally fond of drawing a big, bright line between speech and actions. Speech, even hateful speech, needs to be tolerated so long as it’s not directly inciting violence. My own guess is that cracking down on pro-terrorist speech will only drive it underground and make it more dangerous. But the UK has a different view on speech these days. Anyway, here’s Starmer’s speech so you can judge his response for yourself.
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer’s full address to the nation over the Golders Green terror attack
“If you stand alongside people who say Globalize the Intifada, you are calling for terrorism against Jews”
“I call on everyone decent in this country to open their eyes to Jewish pain” pic.twitter.com/Y8kJgoWOhq
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 30, 2026
Update: This is interesting. An Iranian man living in Golders Greer warns that the UK needs to be tougher with Islamists who come to the UK not to fit in but to occupy territory in which to replicate the environments they had at home.
HEARTBROKEN Persian man Sam at Golders Green tonight after the terrorist stabbing:
“We don’t want this happen here like Iran, 47 years long, our life was WEST and just gone…”
Sam gave his full account of how dangerous Islam is and that if we continue to be weak, they will just… pic.twitter.com/b5pRMlFJXO
— The Uncensored Patriots 🏴 (@SeanyBoyy89) April 29, 2026
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