The MSM is ignoring one of the three victims of Golders Green attacker

Mainstream media are drawing criticism for overlooking one victim of the knife attacker in north London. Britain woke to news on Wednesday 29 May of an attacker in Golders Green, a largely Jewish area. He stabbed two Jewish men, both apparently complete strangers. Thankfully, neither suffered seriously threatening injuries and both are recovering.

Essa Suleiman, 45, was filmed being tasered, tackled, and head-kicked by Metropolitan Police officers minutes after the stabbings occurred.

These attacks on Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were doubtless especially troubling for Britain’s Jewish communities.

The problem, however, is that this news story is not the full picture: the two weren’t alone.

The Golders Green attacker: three victims, not two

Upstanding journalists soon discovered that the same attacker attempted to stab a third man earlier that day: a Muslim man he’d known for 20-odd years, named Ishmail Hussein. He, too, was relatively unharmed.

Yet if you read mainstream British media coverage of these events, you’d be forgiven for being entirely clueless about Hussein’s attempted murder. Suleiman is now facing charges for all three attempts.

Not only has the sole Muslim victim been ignored, but politicians and media pundits are overlooking his mental health episode and instead, once again, are weaponising the incident.

The media’s attention on two of Suleiman’s victims and not the other one can only really be explained either one of two ways, it seems.

They either genuinely care less about the attempted murder of Muslim men compared with that of Jewish men — which is far from impossible, given British media’s documented  anti-Muslim biases. (Note: an anti-war Iranian was stabbed at a peaceful protest last week and received next to no outrage.)

Otherwise, they’re deliberately ignoring it for the sake of a preformed narrative and political agenda. That is, one designed to terrify British Jews, crack down on our speech and protest rights, and favour Zionism.

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Between March 2024 and March 2025, there were around 53,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales. One unfortunate incident where a mentally ill man stabbed two Jews, and suddenly the reaction from politicians and media becomes wildly… pic.twitter.com/2xCHMAeBQe

— Saniya Sayed (@Ssaniya_) May 1, 2026

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How many stabbings?

Respected British journalists including Mehdi Hassan and Owen Jones quickly pointed out that there were three stabbings, not two. This deliberate obfuscation matters.

But judging by headlines from Sky News, the BBC, Associated Press, NPR, DW, and others, you’d probably think that the two Jewish men in Golders Green were Suleiman’s sole attack victims. Why the journalistic avoidance?

The two rightly corrected the record, that the man is indeed charged with three counts of attempted murder. But even in stories where this third attack was mentioned, most still kept it entirely out of headlines.

For example, in this BBC article, the third victim, Hussein, isn’t mentioned until the fourth paragraph — relatively prominent placing. Yet he missed the crucial headline spot.

The BBC’s web article as of 1/5/2026 – screenshot via BBC.

Under IPSO Editorial Code guidelines, misleading headlines are a breach of Clause 1 (Accuracy). While not exactly false, it’s damned misleading to miss 1/3 of the victims.

(For reference, it would be like saying there were 14 victims in the tragic 2017 MEN Arena bombing, rather than 22. Or only counting MEN victims of one demographic, and nobody else.)

Headlines about Golders Green amplifying propaganda

Then there’s this DW article headline, via Reuters and Associated Press (AP):

DW’s web article as of 1/5/2026 – screenshot via DW.

Again, it’s not exactly wrong. But you have to read to paragraph eight to learn that Suleiman also attacked another man. And they don’t even name him, nor say that he’s Muslim — unlike the two Jewish men, who are named and identified as such.

It’s a similar picture for US-based public outlet NPR’s article, via AP:

NPR’s web article as of 1/5/2026 – screenshot via NPR.

Again, the headline is not wrong per se. NPR mention the third man, but again offer no typical humanising details, like a name or age. Medhi Hassan highlighted that even the Metropolitan Police’s own social media posts overlook the man’s third victim.

As Owen Jones pointed out, in relation to Sky News’ coverage, there is no plausible editorial justification for missing 1/3 of his charges of attempted murder.

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What?

He’s been charged with THREE counts of attempted murder.

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The third alleged victim is Ishmail Hussein.

What is the editorial justification for not even stating that it’s three counts of attempted murder! https://t.co/9DJhDlwJWG

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) May 1, 2026

That is unless, unfortunately, the violent incident is instead being seized upon by certain political actors to bring about drastic political changes.

Golders Green attacks quickly instrumentalised

Before north London’s Jewish communities could even come to terms with the violent attacks, the usual suspects soon set about weaponising them.

Upholding the well-trodden transphobe-to-Zionist-mouthpiece pipeline, JK Rowling and allied agitators quickly criticised Britain’s only Jewish party leader after the attack:

Green Party leader Zack Polanski pushed back against his raging critics like Rupert Murdoch-employed (non-Jewish) Julia Hartley-Brewer. JHB and others, somehow, blamed the attacks on Polanski.

Not a day later, Polanski faced Reform UK supporters throwing actual Nazi salutes his way at a rally in Hastings, which no doubt right-wing “antisemitism” warriors will be horrified at.

Unsurprisingly, Israel’s Foreign Ministry quickly seized the moment, urging the British government to “act decisively and urgently” against antisemitism which it claims is “festering” across the UK.

But we all know how Zionists stretch their definitions beyond genuine attacks to include any criticism of their murderous, racial supremacist political project.

Goodbye civil liberties

It’s difficult to see how this could be considered an undeniable case of antisemitism, when one of Suleiman’s victims was a Muslim.

That said, it seems travelled from south London to the north, meaning he may well have targeted Jewish people. In effect, it’s too early to call it — but that didn’t stop a crackdown a-coming:

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You know, if you want Jewish people to feel safe maybe randomly dropping that an ordinary house fire happened to be "near a synagogue" as if it was some kind of attack might be a bit reckless?

Incidentally the fire was also near a mosque. https://t.co/scCIlyFoTN pic.twitter.com/fwXZQbhl2i

— Bad Writing Takes (@BadWritingTakes) May 1, 2026

Keir Starmer quickly took to his favourite podium to criticise “marches that happen regularly across Britain.” He did not even mention their cause, which is pro-Palestinian. Nor their immediate trigger: a UK-backed genocide by Israel of tens of thousands of people in Gaza.

He didn’t stop there, however. Starmer criticised people for slogans and signs by association, and even called for prosecutions of anyone saying “globalise the intifada.” Once again, supposed antisemitism is being weaponised to suit Zionist interests:

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Starmer's already made uttering the phrase "I support Palestine Action" punishable by up to 14 years in prison

Then he banned "repeat protests"

Now he wants to prosecute anyone saying "globalise the intifada"

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He is most authoritarian PM since WW2. Our freedoms are evaporating https://t.co/Ixmyhbco41

— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) April 30, 2026

Please note that the 1987–93 First Intifada was an entirely peaceful, civil society movement across Palestine. That is, until the IOF violently repressed the movement by killing 1,300–1,600 Palestinians.

There’s no evidence for any link between such attacks and peaceful protests. Generally, in fact, peaceful protest is considered the only viable, positive alternative to political violence. This fact is, of course, wasted on the IOF and their many British bootlickers.

Yet that obvious and even righteous fact hasn’t stopped so-called human rights lawyer Keir Starmer and his Labour government from arresting over 3,000 protestors for peacefully holding signs reading:

I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action.

Hello double standards

Soon a COBRA meeting was called, unlike for the roughly 50,000 stabbings that occur in Britain annually. People shared online the striking disparity in value seemingly placed on the lives of stabbing victims:

Victorian relic Jacob Rees-Mogg MP even held a ‘vigil’ for the two living Jewish victims of Suleiman — not, we must stress, for the Muslim victim. Nor for all those other victims, often poorer and Black and brown people, who suffer from knife-crimes daily across London.

Even Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley stepped into politics now, in a barefaced breach of his duties of supposed impartiality. He wrote a direct letter to criticise Zack Polanski over an online re-post:

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The Metropolitan Police denouncing a party leader a week before elections – over a retweet.

This is outrageous.

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Forget what you think about the retweet.

If you accept this sort of police interference in our democracy, you legitimise a deeply disturbing precedent. https://t.co/BYdpDneQpF

— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) April 30, 2026

Anybody watching this outside the delirium of SW1 and Fleet Street is left with the bitter taste of double standards. One of the three immediate victims overlooked, presumably on an account of his race, religion, or failure to fit neatly into a preformed narrative.

But, worse still, so are the pundits and politicians willingly ignoring thousands of other victims. It begs the question: is there a hierarchy of racial and religious victimisation in Britain?

Antisemitism is a real and present threat — predominantly on the political right. But it’s not the only prominent hate crime, and there should be no hierarchy between it and racialised attacks.

Politicians and the media must be honest about such key facts, and apply their moral outrage evenly. Otherwise, their blatant racist and anti-Muslim hypocrisy betrays itself.

Dubious ‘terror’ connections

Nonetheless, officials soon raised Britain’s ‘terror threat’ level from ‘likely’ to ‘severe’. That’s second on a five-point scale, making intelligence services more vigilant in coming months. Why? Because the world’s newest “Iran-linked terror group” took credit.

That’s right, Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia (HAYI) — a supposedly Iran-linked, European-based Islamist group — quickly claimed the Golders Green attacks as their doing.

The so-called terror group appears mainly to be a poorly run Telegram channel. It has supposedly claimed credit for all recent attacks on Jewish people or sites across Europe. It “mysteriously” appeared two weeks before the illegal US-Zionist war on Iran.

Linguists assess that the group uses Israeli state-coded language, such as referring to Occupied Palestine as ‘the Land of Israel’. They also identified misspellings in Arabic and an aversion to well-written Farsi, the dominant language of Iran, alongside giveaways that much of their output is likely AI-generated.

This new-level ‘terror’ designation came despite knowledge that the man left a psychiatric hospital shortly before the attack. This indicates that he was likely suffering a mental health episode. Most likely, then, he was not part of a well-planned or coordinated attack.

It beggars belief that we’re being told to seriously consider that any actual terrorist group would employ such a man. He was already known to Prevent, and apparently suffers from psychotic breaks — not a dependable ally. Especially one who attacks other Muslims, rather than presumed Jewish targets.

Iran, at this stage of the war, has absolutely nothing to gain from harming Europeans, Jewish people, or otherwise. Their obviously best policy is just watching the US-Zionist imperial regime terrorise the global economy. Meanwhile their foolish European, Gulf, and East-Asian erstwhile “allies” begin to wake up.

The reality

There’s only one global actor with a shining record for unchecked attacks on and murder of civilians. It also stands to benefit from terrorising Britain’s Jewish people into a fearful Stockholm syndrome.

To be clear, Zionists aren’t guilty of orchestrating the Golders Green attack. But with the bogus HAYI group claiming such incidents — and politicians eager to amplify their one-sided picture — they are by default guilty as sin:

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There was 3 counts of attempted murder.

They ignore this and falsely report 2.

Why?

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Because the third person was Muslim and that doesn't fit the script.

Dystopian stuff. https://t.co/kNMcwmKZvi

— Daniel Lambert (@dlLambo) May 1, 2026

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Why doesn't the tweet mention the Muslim man that he stabbed earlier in the day? He's been charged with three counts of attempted murder. https://t.co/aAeRJOwNyo

— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) May 1, 2026

Featured image via Westminster Magistrate’s Court

By Cameron Baillie

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