About 24 hours ago, criminals presumed to be anti-Semites destroyed four ambulances in a Jewish area of North London, Golders Green. The destruction was intense:
Now, authorities are investigating whether the attack may have been directed by Iran’s mullahs:
Security services and police are investigating whether Iran could be behind an arson attack on four ambulances serving a Jewish community in north London, after a group linked to Tehran said it was responsible.
Four ambulances belonging to Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency medical service, were set on fire during the attack in Golders Green. No one was injured. Officials said they had not ruled out Iranian involvement.
A resident said the blasts of oxygen tanks exploding in the vehicles had “sounded like bombs” as people fled their homes.
Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, a group that has claimed responsibility for similar recent attacks in Europe, said it had carried out the attack. Detectives said they were keeping an open mind.
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The Iranian ambassador to the UK, Seyed Ali Mousavi, was summoned by the Foreign Office in response to his country’s “reckless and destabilising actions” in Britain and overseas.Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, warned that the UK faced a “long and sustained threat” from Iran, including a “very relevant and rolling threat” to British Jews.
The arson attack has prompted renewed attention to the problem of anti-Semitism in Britain, pretty much all of which comes from Islamic immigrants:
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, described the incident as “so warped it defies words” and an “attack on this country and on us all”. She said the freedom of Jewish worship was an “embodiment of who we are” and promised that those responsible would be “made to face the consequences of their vile actions”.
She told the Community Security Trust’s annual dinner in London on Monday night that the fight against antisemitism in the UK was “moving backwards” and that the scale of abuse against Jews reflected a wider societal failure.
Yes, it reflects a societal failure to have rational immigration laws and to enforce the laws that are on the books.
