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On 29 April 2026, Essa Suleiman attacked three people in separate incidents on the same day. The CPS and police record that two Jewish men, Shlome Rand (34) and Moshe/Norman Shine (76), were stabbed in Golders Green, where the stabbings were declared a terrorist incident. A third victim, the Muslim man Ishmael Hussein, was attacked first, earlier that day in South London. The CPS has charged Suleiman with three counts of attempted murder and one count of possessing a bladed article.

 

The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have repeatedly framed the case only as a terror attack on “two Jewish men” and an “antisemitic national security emergency,” while failing to name or centre Ishmael Hussein in their public statements. This is not a minor omission. It creates a racially and religiously biased hierarchy of victimhood, in which Jewish victims are elevated to the level of a national security crisis while the Muslim victim in the same case is treated as background detail.

 

Ministers have then used this selective framing to justify raising the national terrorism threat level to “severe,” announcing a £25 million fund specifically for Jewish-community security, and linking the case to wider moves against pro-Palestinian protest. The CPS, however, presents a legally neutral picture of three attempted murders by one individual, not a broader terror campaign.

 

THIS DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT STRONGLY SUGGESTS RELIGIOUS BIAS AMOUNTING TO INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN PUBLIC POLICY.

 

The Government and the Metropolitan Police first linked the attack on the two Jewish men to the 16 May Nakba‑Day march, with the head of counter‑terrorism saying police were “reviewing whether to ban pro‑Palestine marches” after the national terrorism threat level was raised to “severe” following the Golders Green stabbing, ignoring the Muslim attack entirely, and the psychiatric background of the individual involved.

 

I ask you to press the Government to:

 

1.⁠ ⁠Publicly name Ishmael Hussein as the first of the three victims in all future ministerial statements and correct the “two Jewish victims only” framing.

2.⁠ ⁠Confirm in writing that the attack on the Muslim victim will be treated as fully equivalent under hate-crime and counter-terrorism frameworks.

3.⁠ ⁠Issue a public apology to the Muslim community for the selective handling of this case.

4.⁠ ⁠Ensure security and policing measures are based on objective evidence, not politicised narrative.

5.⁠ ⁠Demonstrate how funding and public recognition are distributed according to documented need, not political prominence. 

6.⁠ Ensure any implied reprimand affecting protests based on clear public bias is corrected before Muslims are vilified - otherwise there MUST BE RESIGNATIONS FOR MINISTERS AND POLICE ALIKE.

 

This is a matter not only of accuracy, but of equal treatment under public authority.

 

Please address this issue as a matter of urgency.

Yours,

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