Overview
- Four ambulances used by Hatzola, a Jewish volunteer emergency service in north London, were destroyed in an arson attack that ignited gas canisters and led to nearby home evacuations.
- Police detained two British men, aged 47 and 45, on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life and released them on bail until April as inquiries continue.
- The Metropolitan Police say they are testing whether an Islamist group with possible Iranian state links directed the attack, a line of inquiry that has not produced confirmed findings.
- Former prime minister Tony Blair, writing in The Free Press, argues that parts of the political left have aligned with Islamist movements in ways that make antisemitism more acceptable.
- Blair points to more than 3,700 antisemitic incidents recorded in the UK last year and similar spikes in France and Germany after October 7, placing the London attack in a wider European trend.