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‘An attack on the heart of this community’: Golders Green arson leaves Jews feeling besieged

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CitrixNews Staff
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‘An attack on the heart of this community’: Golders Green arson leaves Jews feeling besieged

Local people say incident is just the latest example of hostility that has built up over a long time

The blasts that boomed out in the early hours of Monday in suburban north-west London struck terror into people living in the surrounding streets. Their effects in Golders Green, with its large Jewish population, were still reverberating later that morning.

The antisemitic attack, in which four ambulances run by the Jewish charity Hatzola were set on fire, has left local people afraid. They are afraid because of the incident itself but also because of what they see as a febrile atmosphere of antisemitism in the UK more generally.

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Originally reported by The Guardian