Antisemitic attack in London – we need unity
JVL Introduction
It is good to see that one newspaper asked Jewish Groups that support Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and justice for their views on the antisemitic arson attack on the ambulances in Golders Green in the early hours of Monday morning, which JVL unreservedly condemns. Thankfully no-one was hurt in this loathsome attack.
Some of the responses online, including from those who claim to support Palestinians is worrying. At best this is falling into the trap that Israel and its supporters around the world have laid. Israel’s leadership has always conflated Jews with Israel and with zionism, just as they conflate criticism of Israel’s barbarity with antisemitism. It is essential that those of us standing for the rights of the Palestinian people avoid that trap however justified our anger against Israel, it cannot be an excuse for attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions.
Both JVL Co Chair Jenny Manson and a prominent Jewish Socialist Group Leader, Julia Bard are quoted in this article.
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This article was originally published by Morning Star on Mon 23 Mar 2026. Read the original here.
Campaigners call for unity against racism after arson attack on Jewish community ambulances
Jewish Socialists’ Group condemns those ‘using this appalling incident to whip up more hatred between minority communities’
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Craig Murray has argued that this outrage (and others purportedly carried out across Europe by the same group, unheard of until a few weeks ago) bears the hallmarks of a false-flag attack designed to implicate Iran and inflame public opinion against it.
Shouldn’t you at least consider that possibility?
The supposed attackers advertised themselves in English and “non-native” Arabic (though not Farsi) and in both languages referred to “the land of Israel”. Not quite what you’d expect from Islamists.
Unfortunately the outrage over this is only going to lead to a doubling-down of the conflation between support for Palestinian Rights and anti-semitism. Destroying these ambulances during the night (unlike the gun attack in Manchester) seems a symbolic rather than any type of revenge attack targeting Jews. As yet no arrests (despite the CCTV footage) ……. so who carried out this attack and why?
I can’t help but think of the many ambulances (and their personnel) put out of action by the IDF in Gaza and those prevented from reaching victims of the Settlers in the West Bank and all those lives lost as a consequence. If Starmer or Streeting or the Chief Rabbi or the B.o.D. had shown any empathy towards those victims perhaps we wouldn’t be where we’re at now….
Why would this Iranian government, or any of its supporter groups, choose four decrepit London ambulances as targets for a ‘terror attack’?
It has me baffled.
As long as Israel keeps committing genocide in the name of the Jewish people (and with the excuse of the Holocaust), antisemitism will grow. I am glad that our governement is replacing the burnt ambulance cars but – if they want to decrease / eliminate antisemitism – they should immedely stop arming Israel.
This is a good correctly-worded article. Thank you JVL and all the others.
I am not Jewish. I grew up in East London and then South London. I am largely unfamiliar with the Jewish communities, which are relatively tiny when compared with all of the other ethnic or religious communities.
As in the other article, it is obvious that the wrong-minded setting fire to London Jewish community ambulances was provoked by the terrorist state of Israel and its unrestrained genocide of the indigenous people whose land is being stolen by violent colonialist settlers from outside of the region.
As an elderly man, I have had recent experience of our NHS. I have recently had free of charge major surgery within our largely fine NHS. However, I had to employ a good quality and reliable taxi service for the long journey to get me from one side of the county where I now live to the hospital on the other and then home when I was discharged. I subsequently had a fall at home, for which I dialled 999, and it was an NHS ambulance and NHS paramedics who came out at midnight, lifted me up and checked me.
This looks like a ‘false flag’ attack. It certainly wasn’t linked to Iran and probably had more to do with Israel wanting to boost flagging support rather than anti-semitism.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/the-london-ambulances-attack-of-course-it-was-a-false-flag/
Have a look at the article above. Of course it shouldn’t have happened. But then neither should the brutal attack on Gaza nor the attack on Iran.
It’s possible this was purely an antisemitic attack – we don’t know. We do know Israel and the right wing media have blamed it on Iran, which would suggest it is a political act.
Arrests have been made so we may find out.
It is odd, and somewhat of a fortuitous coincidence for the war-mongering PTB, that this should follow closely on the heels of the alleged – but unsuccessful – missile attack on Diego Garcia by Iran, which just happened to happen shortly BEFORE Starmer agreed to let the US use British bases. Yes, what an amazing coincidence, yet again!
And how fortuitous that one broke up in flight, and the other was shot down (presumably over the ocean), so there are no remnants, as such. Needless to say, it could of course be complete fabrication, and there never were two missiles, and we all know how honest and trustworthy Trump is, and ditto Netanyahu and the IDF, and Starmer and Lammy et al.
I don’t think it got much, if any, coverage by the MSM (I certainly didn’t come across it in the more-than-a-few articles I read), but Al Jazeera covered it – ie the denial by Iran that they fired two missiles:
Iran has denied targeting a joint military base of the United States and the United Kingdom on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia with missiles, dismissing the claim as an “Israeli false flag” attack.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the accusations reflected a pattern of “disinformation”…..
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/iran-denies-targeting-us-uk-diego-garcia-airbase-claims-false-flag-attack
And just two-and-a-half weeks beforehand, Iran’s foreign minister just happened to say this in an NBC interview, in response to something Trump said:
President Donald Trump said last week that one of the reasons for launching the war was that Iran would soon have missiles capable of reaching the U.S., but Araghchi said this was untrue.
“This is in fact misinformation,” he said. “You know, we have capability to produce missiles, but we have intentionally limited ourselves to below 2,000 kilometers of range because we don’t want to be felt as a threat by anybody else in the world.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/irans-foreign-minister-rejects-calls-ceasefire-continue-fighting-rcna262291