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Sarah Sackman speaking after the Golders Green attacks (Image: Twitter)
A Labour MP was heckled with chants of “shame on you” while speaking to her constituents in Golders Green following a terror attack. Sarah Sackman was told to “resign” by Jewish members of her community when she spoke after two men were knifed in what she described as an “appalling” antisemitic incident.
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A man has been arrested after he was seen running along Golders Green Road armed with a knife and โattempting to stab Jewish members of the publicโ, Jewish security group Shomrim said on social media.
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The disturbing attack prompted calls for action from the chief rabbi and the Israeli foreign ministry, following a series of incidents targeting Jewish sites in London.
One witness to Wednesdayโs incident described the suspect walking away from the scene as one of the victims bled from his neck.
The 45-year-old suspect tried to stab police officers when he was stopped in Golders Green, and was tasered before being arrested.
Sarah Sackman speaking alongside Met Police chief Sir Mark Rowley (Image: Getty)
Two victims, one in his 70s and the other in his 30s, are in a stable condition in hospital after the attack shortly after 11am in Highfield Avenue.
London Ambulance Service confirmed the attacker was also taken to hospital, with one Shomrim volunteer saying they saw him being given CPR.
Unverified footage postage on social media shows an older man putting on a kippah as he waits at a bus stop, before the attacker lunges at him.
A pizza shop worker on Golders Green Road said he helped the elderly stab victim after he saw him bleeding from his neck.
Police said they are working to establish the โnationality and backgroundโ of the attacker, and the investigation is being led by Counter Terrorism Policing.
Head of counter-terrorism policing, Laurence Taylor, said: โWhilst I must stress this investigation is at an early stage, we are working quickly to understand exactly what happened.
โThank you to those who were in the area at the time and supported the response to this terrible incident.โ
The scene is around half a mile from a memorial wall where an attempted arson attack took place on Monday, and near where four Jewish community ambulances were destroyed by fire in late March.
These are among a number of alleged attacks on Jewish sites in London in recent weeks.
