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Keir Starmer was visiting a synagogue last week.
He called out Zach Polanski, the Green Leader.
as disgraceful.
Do you agree with Keir Starmer?
That's Sarah Sackman.
She's the Justice Minister, but she's also the MP who
in Golders Green, where just hours ago, two people were stabbed in broad daylight by a man with a knife.
The latest attack on the Jewish community of North London.
And just to put this in the context, the geography of Golders Green, where there are around 30 synagogues, I think it's about one in two people, pretty much half the population.
self-identify as Jewish, of the Jewish faith.
And so this is seen as, if you like, one of the most, if not the most concentrated areas in the entire country of Jewish residents.
And on the one hand, it is sort of unmistakable that this is a pattern of anti-Semitism.
And on the other hand,
we've had these claims of responsibility in the past, we don't know yet about this one, from a group that is in some way connected to Iran's IRGC, the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Nothing has been proven.
We're going to be discussing that a little bit later.
But you have this extraordinary set of circumstances where you cannot tell if this is part of community policing or community relations that needs to change or whether there are
frankly, hired guns by Iran, you know, who are being sent out to try and damage specifically one targeted community, which is somehow a sort of much bigger political question for us to get our heads around.
And are terrified.