Terror Attack in London: Jewish Men Stabbed

0:00It's May 1st. Welcome to Canada News Today, powered by AI. A 45-year-old man named S.A. Suleiman faces attempted murder charges after stabbing two Jewish men in North London's Golders Green, neighborhood. Police are calling it a terrorist act, the latest hit on the area's tight-knit Jewish community. He also got hit with a third count from an earlier clash that left someone with minor wounds. Suleiman, a Somalia-born British citizen living in London, first went after a friend he known for 20 years in South London, then hopped a train north to target the victims. 34-year-old Shloim Rand took a chest stab that punctured his lung but got released from the hospital. 76-year-old Norman Shine stabbed in the neck at a bus stop is stable now. He showed up in court but didn't enter a plea in his case heads to Central Criminal Court on May 15th. This attack has folks in Britain's Jewish community on edge, especially after recent arson's at synagogues and other sites.

1:00It's stirring up real fear and outrage across the board. Turns out Suleiman was flagged for the government's pre-vin program back in 2020 to curb extremism but they closed his file later that year. Officials bumped the national terror threat to severe. The second-highest level, citing risks from Islamist and far-right groups, not just this one, incident. Minister Keir Starmer vowed to beef up security and crush this anti-Semitism wave promising the full force of the law. As the case moves forward, everyone's watching how the UK tackles this rising tide of hate.