Green Party Leader Zack Polanski has been condemned for a retweet criticising the heroic police officers who disarmed the Golders Green attacker as ‘heavy-handed’. The Mail has more.
Sir Keir Starmer was booed when he dodged Jewish protesters as he visited the scene of the Golders Green terror attack today.
The Prime Minister was heckled as he sped past crowds chanting “Keir Starmer, Jew harmer” and “traitor” in north London on Thursday.
It came as fellow Left-winger, Green Party leader Zack Polanski, retweeted a post suggesting hero policemen who disarmed the terror suspect after he knifed two Jews had been too heavy-handed.
Protesters in Golders Green showed their anger at Sir Keir because he had failed to come to the area until 24 hours after the horrifying antisemitic attack, calling him a “coward” for not facing them.
One of the victims, Shloime Rand, 34, said from his hospital bed today that he held the Government responsible and that it is a “miracle” he survived being stabbed in the chest.
At lunchtime the Labour leader’s police convoy took him away from the crowds heckling him. He was instead whisked into a closed doors meeting at the new headquarters of the local Jewish ambulance service Hatzollah. …
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has been accused of endorsing a tweet that said the officers were acting “violently” towards the knifeman who was Tasered after allegedly stabbing Rand and Moshe Shine, 76.
Rand alleged that Sir Keir’s administration is “not doing its job” to protect Jewish people in the UK, who he says are “afraid” and “uncomfortable walking in the street”.
Asked whether he felt let down by the Government, he said “definitely”. …
Footage of the incident showed the suspect refusing to drop the knife after the attack that began at a north London bus stop. It is now being treated as terrorism.
The suspect, who was described as a British national born in Somalia, was brought to the ground and arrested while carrying the blade and a backpack that police had no idea if it carried explosives.
In a statement at the scene Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowleydescribed the double attempted murder as a “horrendous act of violence” and revealed the motive was antisemitism. He also said the suspect had a “history of serious violence and mental health issues”.
In response later reposted by the leader of the Greens, an online critic said: “So essentially his officers were repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by Taser.”
It has led to accusations that Polanski, who has previously said he would like to be the next Prime Minister, was “more concerned” about the suspected terrorist’s wellbeing than those he is accused of stabbing in the street.
The Daily Mail has asked Polanski to comment.
Last night a party spokesman said of the attack: “This was an appalling act of antisemitic violence. Jewish people deserve safety and belonging wherever they live and we stand in solidarity with the British Jewish community.
“Our hearts go out to the victims and their loved ones and we pay tribute to the emergency services, including Hatzola ambulances, for their swift response.”
But the party leader’s retweet has led to widespread criticism.
Stop Press: Two Green Party candidates have been arrested on suspicion of stirring up racial hatred for allegedly posting antisemitic comments online. A post by Saiqa Ali is understood to show an image of an armed man in a Hamas headband (a proscribed terrorist organisation) under the slogan “resistance is freedom” while a post by Sabine Mairey includes a picture of a man holding a placard that reads “ramming a synagogue isn’t antisemitism, it’s revenge”.
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Richard
4 months ago
Sorry, but I don’t buy ‘terror attack.’ One slightly unfit middle aged man staggering down a street wielding a knife doesn’t look like something out of the Al-Qaeda training manual. More someone with mental health problems.
NeilParkin
4 months ago
I’m of the opinion that if you have attempted murder, that whatever ‘human rights’ you believe yourself to be endowed with are null and void. You are acting outside the law. You should not expect the laws protection.
Mrs.Croc
4 months ago
Oh how the greens hate the Jews and the white British population.
i do hope everyone remembers that at voting time.
Unfortunately one group of voters will probably see it as a positive thing.
RW
4 months ago
This Polanski guy is – mildly put – an idiot. The footage surely looks gross. But this was a street fight of two unarmed guys with an armed man who had just tried to kill two people. Were they supposed to kiss him to render him harmless to themselves and others?
He’d already served time for stabbing a policeman and his dog, so he was well known to them. He even worked for the Met as an interpreter before his arrest back then. I wonder who has the crystal ball and gets to decide a man is no longer a threat to the public because this nutjob sounds like an active volcano: he can lie dormant for years but is liable to explode out of the blue when the conditions are right;
”In 2008, Suleiman was jailed indefinitely following a violent altercation in Swindon in which he stabbed Pc Neil Sampson. The officer had been responding to reports of a knife incident at a property in the Wiltshire town when he was attacked by Suleiman, who was 27 at the time. Pc Sampson required five months off work after he was repeatedly stabbed in the head, face and leg with what was believed to be a bread knife. His dog, Anya, was also knifed in the chest, Swindon Crown Court heard. The judge at his trial handed Suleiman an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence and recommended he only be released when he was no longer considered a risk to the… Read more »
Tyrbiter
4 months ago
The attacker wouldn’t drop the knife and the police didn’t know what was in his backpack, the taser was not effective.
I can’t see what other means of attack there was left, being kicked in the head seems entirely fair in the circumstances. I hope that police officers have steel toe-capped footwear.
There would have been little for a defence lawyer to do, it’s true…
jeepybee
4 months ago
Why should being “mentally ill” (see “Muslim”) stop you from being kicked in the head?
JXB
4 months ago
In fact heavy-footed – and quite right. He had a knife and wouldn’t drop it.
The Green Goon ponders whether increased anti-Jewish behaviour is real or perceived. I suppose the two stab victims just perceived being stabbed by a perceived attacker.
So maybe “heavy handed” policing was just a perception.
Mogwai
4 months ago
I think in the US he’d probably have been shot in the head, never mind kicked. He refused to drop his weapon and kept on advancing towards the officers. This is all looking depressingly familiar now. Just keep ignoring the evidence before your eyes and repeat the mantra ”diversity is our strength” ad nauseam;
”THE alleged Golders Green knifeman has been named as a Somalia-born migrant with a “history of violence”.
Essa Suleiman, 45, was arrested yesterday after allegedly stabbing two Jewish men during a rampage in the North London suburb. The Sun understands Suleiman, a Somali translator, came to the UK legally as a child from Somalia in the 1990s.
And he was known to Prevent – the government’s anti-terror and deradicalisation programme – the Met confirmed today.
Suleiman, from South East London, was referred in 2020, but his case was closed later that year.”
“Excuse me, Mr Violent Man, do you mind, please stand still so I can accurately shoot you in a temporarily disabling and non-fatal manner, thanks awfully!”
I’m told that the latest Tasers are ‘low powered’ after someone who got tasered managed to have a heart attack and die. I don’t have the specific case. Gotta protect those criminals….
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Sorry, but I don’t buy ‘terror attack.’ One slightly unfit middle aged man staggering down a street wielding a knife doesn’t look like something out of the Al-Qaeda training manual. More someone with mental health problems.
I’m of the opinion that if you have attempted murder, that whatever ‘human rights’ you believe yourself to be endowed with are null and void. You are acting outside the law. You should not expect the laws protection.
Oh how the greens hate the Jews and the white British population.
i do hope everyone remembers that at voting time.
Unfortunately one group of voters will probably see it as a positive thing.
This Polanski guy is – mildly put – an idiot. The footage surely looks gross. But this was a street fight of two unarmed guys with an armed man who had just tried to kill two people. Were they supposed to kiss him to render him harmless to themselves and others?
Ugly inside and out. Perhaps he would be less ugly outside if he cleaned his teeth after playing the pink oboes.
He’d already served time for stabbing a policeman and his dog, so he was well known to them. He even worked for the Met as an interpreter before his arrest back then. I wonder who has the crystal ball and gets to decide a man is no longer a threat to the public because this nutjob sounds like an active volcano: he can lie dormant for years but is liable to explode out of the blue when the conditions are right;
”In 2008, Suleiman was jailed indefinitely following a violent altercation in Swindon in which he stabbed Pc Neil Sampson.
The officer had been responding to reports of a knife incident at a property in the Wiltshire town when he was attacked by Suleiman, who was 27 at the time.
Pc Sampson required five months off work after he was repeatedly stabbed in the head, face and leg with what was believed to be a bread knife. His dog, Anya, was also knifed in the chest, Swindon Crown Court heard.
The judge at his trial handed Suleiman an imprisonment for public protection (IPP) sentence and recommended he only be released when he was no longer considered a risk to the… Read more »
The attacker wouldn’t drop the knife and the police didn’t know what was in his backpack, the taser was not effective.
I can’t see what other means of attack there was left, being kicked in the head seems entirely fair in the circumstances. I hope that police officers have steel toe-capped footwear.
And across the pond there would have been another tactic; no need to spend much time in court then.
There would have been little for a defence lawyer to do, it’s true…
Why should being “mentally ill” (see “Muslim”) stop you from being kicked in the head?
In fact heavy-footed – and quite right. He had a knife and wouldn’t drop it.
The Green Goon ponders whether increased anti-Jewish behaviour is real or perceived. I suppose the two stab victims just perceived being stabbed by a perceived attacker.
So maybe “heavy handed” policing was just a perception.
I think in the US he’d probably have been shot in the head, never mind kicked. He refused to drop his weapon and kept on advancing towards the officers. This is all looking depressingly familiar now. Just keep ignoring the evidence before your eyes and repeat the mantra ”diversity is our strength” ad nauseam;
”THE alleged Golders Green knifeman has been named as a Somalia-born migrant with a “history of violence”.
Essa Suleiman, 45, was arrested yesterday after allegedly stabbing two Jewish men during a rampage in the North London suburb. The Sun understands Suleiman, a Somali translator, came to the UK legally as a child from Somalia in the 1990s.
And he was known to Prevent – the government’s anti-terror and deradicalisation programme – the Met confirmed today.
Suleiman, from South East London, was referred in 2020, but his case was closed later that year.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38978109/golders-green-terrorist-somalia-migrant-stabs-jewish-men/
Centre of mass.
Some of the taser shots didn’t seem to take. A bad weapon or poor training?
The barbs need to touch the skin over a sufficient area. Clothing – particularly think jackets can prevent this.
Additionally, the actual effect will depend on the individual and their state.
Bad weapon mainly. As JXB states, even a thick jumper can prevent these barbs hitting skin.
They regularly fail and pretty much exist to appease people who ignorantly ask “why didn’t they just shoot him in the leg to stop him?!”
In the leg? There’s only one place to shoot someone to stop them and it isn’t in the leg.
If the guy’s still breathing they weren’t violent enough.
Well that’s it, I’ve even heard “they should be trained to shoot knives from their hands!”
Agreed.
“Excuse me, Mr Violent Man, do you mind, please stand still so I can accurately shoot you in a temporarily disabling and non-fatal manner, thanks awfully!”
I’m told that the latest Tasers are ‘low powered’ after someone who got tasered managed to have a heart attack and die. I don’t have the specific case. Gotta protect those criminals….