On Wednesday morning, a terror stabbing attack in the heart of London’s most heavily Jewish neighborhood, Golders Green, shook the city. It was the latest in a series of attacks in April, including two attempted firebombings at synagogues in north London. The recent attacks targeting Jewish institutions in the city are now being investigated by authorities as part of a sustained campaign of intimidation rather than a series of isolated incidents. British counterterrorism police are investigating potential links to Iranian-backed networks, with officials warning that some attackers may be acting as “proxies” or “thugs for hire.”
The recent surge in antisemitism worldwide is often described as a spontaneous social eruption. It is framed as ugly and alarming, yet diffuse in origin and difficult to trace with precision. That description is not simply incomplete; it actually obscures more than it reveals. It allows institutions and policymakers to treat the problem as ambient rather than organized, reactive rather than cultivated. The reality is more structured and far less comfortable: Antisemitism today operates through systems as much as sentiment. One of its principal architects is the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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