The article explores the transformation of Golders Green, a once-safe haven for Jewish life in Britain, into a vulnerable area following a series of anti-Semitic attacks. It delves into the history of the community, its size and concentration in London and Greater Manchester, and the increased security measures in place to protect it.
All around me are memories. The station’s flat-roofed suburban banality; the grubby cafe where I once bought cans of coke for 30p and which – in a sign of the times – is now a vape shop.
The McDonald’s (now a Sainsbury’s Local) where I would meet friends before we went off to smoke, try to buy alcohol and hang around pretending to be streetwise. It was here, every Tuesday and Thursday, that I lugged my oversized games bag, stuffed with mouldy rugby kit, mud-encrusted boots poking out of the top, as I transited through the station from school up the road in Hampstead to its playing fields down the road in Cricklewood.
North London’s Golders Green looms large in the story of my life. But, following a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in recent months, Golders Green now plays an outsize role in our national story. The area that has long been regarded as perhaps the safest centre of Jewish life in Britain might now be turning into its greatest vulnerability. I am here, a Jewish Londoner, to find out just how bad it is
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