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Terror in Golders Green

New Statesman·Anoosh Chakelian·about 1 month ago
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Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images Golders Green is where the original Jews of London’s East End discovered suburbia. Handsome semis, kosher bakeries, kids huffing up hilly streets on scooters, space to park the family estate. The British dream. Now, it is in a constant state of emergency. All the arms of the state that are supposed to wrap around citizens are doubled up here – in the Shomrim volunteer officers with their hi-vis jackets and quasi-police badges, the local volunteer Hatzola ambulances – four of which were set alight by arsonists a month ago – and the security services provided by the charity Community Security Trust. I was shown inside the entrance of one popular local Jewish primary school, with its complex system of code-pads and gates, CCTV and four guards on duty. The kids shrieked and laughed, tearing around the playground, not far from a sentry post occupied by a man all in black, with barrel arms and lines shaved through his eyebrows, who was watching on.…

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