"In the early hours of Monday morning, four #ambulances belonging to #Hatzalah – the volunteer #Jewish #emergencyservice that provides medical care to #Jews and non-Jews alike, whose name literally translates to ‘rescue’ or ‘relief’ – were set on fire outside a #synagogue in #GoldersGreen.

Nobody was killed, though.

That is a fact that will be noted often, as a form of reassurance for the Jewish community of #London, to which I belong. But that argument must not be allowed to carry too much weight.

The issue is that ambulances are functional objects: they exist to close the gap between #medical crisis and subsequent medical care. To target them is an act of interference – a deliberate degradation of the Jews’ capacity to respond to #emergencies."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/britain-is-failing-its-jewish-communities-again/