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The suspect in the Golders Green knife attack has been named locally as Essa Suleiman.

Suleiman was arrested on Wednesday after two Jewish men were stabbed.

He had worked as a translator and has a history of serious violence, it is understood.

The 45-year-old was born in Somalia but came to the UK as a child in the early 1990s. One of his parents had been granted the right to remain after fleeing the east African country and their son later joined them.

He was then given British citizenship, it is understood.

Sulieman was also allegedly referred to the Government’s de-radicalisation programme, Prevent, in 2020.

Police across the country have stepped up patrols in response to the double stabbing that saw two Jewish men – Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Ben Baila, 76, named locally as Moshe Shine – taken to hospital.

The suspect was detained and arrested by officers in Golders Green following the suspected terror attack.

The Prime Minister faced chants of “Keir Starmer, Jew harmer” from around 100 poster-waving protesters as he arrived at a Golders Green Jewish community ambulance centre on Thursday afternoon, with more heckling on his way out.

Sir Keir is facing pressure to take action, including calls to ban pro-Palestinian marches.

Jonathan Hall, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said it was currently “impossible” for such marches not to “incubate” antisemitism.

Describing recent attacks on Jews as a “massive national security emergency”, he called for a “moratorium” on pro-Palestinian marches.

Ms Mahmood rejected this characterisation, telling BBC Breakfast: “I think the phrase ‘national emergency’ has particular connotations.

“It means that for a period, you change your democracy, and you disapply some elements of our democratic society. I don’t believe this is where we are today.

“But for me this is an absolutely pressing priority. It is an emergency for me as Home Secretary to respond to.”

But Mr Hall’s comments were echoed by the chief rabbi, who said “hate marches” together with “purposeful anti-Israel demonisation” had contributed to “a tone of antisemitism” in the UK.

Opposition politicians have also joined calls to ban the marches, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch saying it was “quite clear they are used as a cover for violence and intimidation against Jews”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy foreign minister Sharren Haskel told Jews to leave the UK.

“I have a message to the Jewish community: immigrate to Israel. Come to a place where we can actually protect you, or you can protect yourself,” she said on GB News, as she accused the UK Government of not doing “enough in order to protect and defend” that community.

Sickening CCTV footage shows the attacker jumping at an older man moments after he put on a kippah and launching a frenzied assault, stabbing him at least six times.

Horrified onlookers swiftly rushed to the man’s aid.

Another video shows the assailant attacking an Orthodox Jew before chasing him down the street.

And the extremist was seen lurching towards police officers before he was Tasered and pinned to the ground.

The terrified police officers ordered the man to “drop your knife” before firing their Tasers.

Yonathan, a Shomrim officer who heroically helped detain the alleged terrorist, said: “I managed to block him off and with the police we managed to put him down.

“It’s very difficult to juggle someone with a knife and try to protect others, take him down and try to protect yourself as well.

“I did my best.

“He was going at everyone around him, including myself. At one point, he made contact with me, and came at me with a knife.

“He was going at the policeman, he was going at someone else. You go forward to try and block him, but then you go back because he’s coming towards you with a knife.”