2026年5月5日 / 美国东部时间上午7:56 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
伦敦——伦敦大都会警方在一份声明中表示，周二早些时候东伦敦一座前犹太会堂发生纵火事件后，英国反恐警方已针对针对首都犹太社区的最新纵火袭击展开调查。
声明称，监控视频显示“火灾系人为蓄意引发……该事件已被认定为纵火案”。目前尚无人员受伤，也无人被捕。
此次事件发生之际，英国首相基尔·斯塔默周二会见了社区团体、政府大臣和警察局长，讨论如何应对伦敦反犹太主义暴力的“危机”。
2026年5月5日周二，警察和消防人员在伦敦东部怀特查佩尔纳尔逊街的前东伦敦中央犹太会堂外，伦敦反恐警方正在此处调查一起纵火案。
上周，伦敦北部有两名犹太男子被刺伤，自3月以来，伦敦已有多座犹太会堂和犹太场所成为一系列反犹太袭击的目标。
斯塔默在周二的集会中表示：“调查方向之一是，是否有外国国家幕后策划了这些事件中的一部分。”
一个被认为与伊朗有关联的组织“正义伙伴伊斯兰运动”（Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia）声称对过去几个月来英国以及其他欧洲国家发生的多起反犹太袭击负责。
首相表示：“我们向伊朗或任何试图在社会中宣扬暴力、仇恨或分裂的国家传递的信息是，这种行为绝不能被容忍。”
英国首相基尔·斯塔默（中）与首席拉比以法莲·米尔维斯（右二）一同坐在拉比耶胡达·布莱克（左四）身旁，他们正在访问肯顿联合犹太会堂，该会堂曾在2026年4月23日遭遇纵火未遂袭击。
他周二还警告称，如果有证据证明伊朗与这些事件有关，伊朗将面临“后果”，并表示针对“恶意威胁”的新立法将加快推进。
今年3月，“正义伙伴伊斯兰运动”的一名代表告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，该组织将继续针对“全球的美国和以色列利益”，直到“我们为加沙、伊朗、黎巴嫩以及抵抗阵线国家的每一名儿童复仇”。
负责该地区警务的侦探总警司布列塔尼·克拉克在纵火案调查结果公布后于周二表示：“这座被作为目标的建筑已经多年没有作为犹太会堂投入使用了，但这对塔哈姆雷特、哈克尼以及其他地区的犹太社区来说，恐怕难以带来多少慰藉，今早我首先想到的就是他们。”
U.K. counter-terror police investigate arson at former London synagogue as prime minister issues warning to Iran
May 5, 2026 / 7:56 AM EDT / CBS News
London – British counter-terror police have launched a probe into the latest arson attack targeting the capital’s Jewish community after a fire was started at a former east London synagogue early Tuesday, the Metropolitan police said in a statement.
Surveillance video shows that “the fire was started intentionally … and the incident is being treated as arson,” the statement read. There were no injuries and no one has been arrested.
The incident came as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with community groups, government ministers and police chiefs Tuesday to discuss ways to respond to the “crisis” of antisemitic violence in London.
Police and fire officers outside the former East London Central Synagogue on Nelson Street in Whitechapel, east London, on Tuesday May 5, 2026, where Counter Terrorism Policing London are investigating an arson incident Lucy North/PA Images via Getty Images
Last week, two Jewish men were stabbed in the north of the capital, while several synagogues and Jewish sites have been the target of a string of antisemitic attacks in London since March.
“One of the lines of inquiry is whether a foreign state has been behind some of these incidents,” Starmer told the gathering Tuesday.
A group believed to be linked to Iran called Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia, or The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Righteous, has claimed responsibility for the recent antisemitic attacks in Britain – and several more in other European countries – over the past few months.
“Our message to Iran or to any other country that might seek to promote violence, hatred or division in society is that it will not be tolerated,” the prime minister said.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, center, and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, second from right, sit alongside Rabbi Yehuda Black (fourth from left) during a visit to Kenton United Synagogue, which was the target of an attempted arson on April 23, 2026. Dan Kitwood / POOL /AFP via Getty Images
He also warned Tuesday that there would be “consequences” if Iran is proven to be behind the incidents, and said new legislation targeting “malign threats” would be fast-tracked.
In March, a representative of the Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia group told CBS News that it would continue to target “U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide until we’ve avenged every child in Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and the resistance nations.”
Speaking Tuesday after the announcement of the investigation into the arson attack, Detective Chief Superintendent Brittany Clarke, who leads policing in the area, said: “The building targeted has not been operational as a synagogue for some years but that will be of little comfort to the Jewish community in Tower Hamlets, Hackney and beyond, who are first in my thoughts this morning.”
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