The father of a Jewish man who was stabbed in an antisemitic attack in north London said his son was “obviously targeted” because of how he was dressed.

Two Jewish men – 34-year-old Shloime Rand and 76-year-old Moshe Ben Baila, named locally as Moshe Shine – were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a suspected terror attack in Golders Green on Wednesday.

A 45-year-old man, said by police to be a Somali-born British national, was arrested following the incident.

The Metropolitan Police said he was known to the government ’s counter-extremism programme Prevent, and that a referral had been made in 2020 which was closed in the same year.

The stabbings are the latest in a series of attacks on the Jewish community in north-west London in recent weeks and have prompted calls for urgent action, as well as accusations the government has not done enough to tackle antisemitism.

Two Jewish men were taken to hospital after being stabbed in a suspected terror attack in Golders Green on Wednesday…