Tom Stoukas

In the wake of the attack in Golders Green overnight, Chief Executive Michael Wegier met the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, Health Secretary of State Wes Streeting and Communities Secretary Steve Reed, together with communal partners and local MPs. They discussed concrete steps to safeguard the Jewish community and accelerate government action to tackle antisemitism. Picture by Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street

This was an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Over 1 million people have already been displaced in Lebanon in just a few weeks. This is nearly one-fifth of the entire population of a country that already hosts the world’s highest number of refugees per capita. The homes of entire families have been wiped out and towns emptied. Bridges that connect communities to the transportation of supplies have been blown up. The death toll is rising faster than during any previous war in Lebanon. This has quickly become a humanitarian disaster. And many of the 1 million displaced civilians (like in previous wars in the Middle East) will be forced into fleeing their war torn lands and migrate as refugees across Europe to seek safety and survival.

This evening I visited Golders Green to stand with the Jewish community. Enough words. We need action: proscribe the IRGC and the Muslim Brotherhood, ban the hate marches, stop two tier policing and bring an end to antisemitism in our institutions like university campuses, the NHS and the BBC.