Keir Starmer condemns ‘horrific antisemitic attack’ after arson attack on Jewish community ambulances – latest updates

By Tom Ambrose · The Guardian World

CCTV showed three people setting light to an ambulance in Golders Green in the early hours of Monday morning The British Medical Association (BMA) criticised “deliberate attacks on healthcare services” as “reprehensible” after Jewish community ambulances were set on fire in London. BMA council chairman Tom Dolphin said: We are appalled to see this attack on ambulances that provide an important service to people in north London. Antisemitism is abhorrent, and deliberate attacks on healthcare services are reprehensible, and this horrendous incident involves both. It is a relief that no-one was injured, but this makes the attack no less sickening. But when it comes to our response today, to support our friends in the community with the ambulance service, with London Ambulance Service, will today be providing additional support to make sure that the charity is supported to respond to anyone in need. So the important message to the local Jewish community, indeed, to Londoners more widely, if you need help from the ambulance service, that they seek it, we will be there for you, but the Jewish community should not be left footing the bill for this despicable attack, which is why tomorrow morning, at the latest, we will have four ambulances in place to replace those that have been destroyed, and we’ll be working to replace those ambulances on a permanent basis, and we will fund the replacement of those ambulances. Continue reading...