That morning in Golders Green, one of London’s most visibly Jewish neighborhoods, a man ran through the streets with a knife looking for Jews to stab. He found them. A 70-year-old man. Another in his 30s. Both were attacked outside a synagogue.

By then, the response had become predictable. “Deeply concerning.” A line so worn it had lost all meaning. The next day, the U.K. government raised the national threat level “from substantial, meaning an attack is likely, to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely in the next 6 months,” the last time it was at that level was in November 2021.

In the weeks leading up to it, a Jewish charity’s ambulances had been firebombed in the same neighborhood. A memorial to the victims of the Oct. 7 attacks was burned. Across the country, antisemitic violence has been rising in plain sight. This was not random. It was not isolated. It was a pattern.

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Police officers work by cordon at the junction of Golders Green Road and the North Circular Road, in the Golders Green neighborhood of north London, on April 29, 2026. (Justin Tallis / AFP via Getty Images)

And the response from the British government — statements, candles, patrols — had ceased to be serious. It had become theater.

Two weeks earlier, Shurat HaDin had filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court against Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez for enabling terror through material support to Iran. The principle was simple: responsibility did not end with the attacker. It extended to those who made the attack possible.

That principle did not stop in Spain.

Britain may not have exported detonators. But it had allowed something else: a climate where calls to “globalize the intifada” echoed through its streets, where incitement was tolerated, and where Jewish life was increasingly treated as expendable.

When a government repeatedly failed to protect a minority from foreseeable, escalating violence, the question was no longer political. It was legal.

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Antisemitic hate was displayed at an anti-Israel protest in London amid record levels of antisemitism in the U.K. following the Hamas terror attacks on Oct. 7. (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

British Jews have already begun rendering their own answer. A growing number of families are quietly making plans to leave for Israel — not in panic, but with clarity. The absolute numbers remain small relative to the size of the community, and most British Jews are determined to stay and fight for the country they love. But the direction matters. Families that two years ago would never have considered emigrating are now weighing it seriously. They have seen this before. They know how it ends.

After Oct. 7, we had been told not to overreact. Marches were just marches. Words were just words.

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Former Conservative cabinet minister Michael Gove, Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis lead a march against antisemitism in central London on Sept. 7, 2025. (Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images)

When a government repeatedly failed to protect a minority from foreseeable, escalating violence, the question was no longer political. It was legal.

The marches had become arson. The rhetoric had become violence. And that morning, it had become a man with a knife hunting Jews outside a synagogue in Golders Green.

The attacker has since been arrested and faces charges. Prime Minister Starmer, after years of treating antisemitism as a public-relations problem, is at last confronting it as the security emergency it has become. He has raised the national threat level. He has promised concrete measures to combat antisemitism. He himself has acknowledged that the era of indifference must end.

London, UK, Dec 9 2023, Pro-Palestinian protesters hold a banner and chant at at anti-Israel protest (Photo by: Andy Soloman/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) (Getty Images)

That recognition is overdue — and welcome. But recognition is not enforcement.

The test now is not what the British government says, but what it does. Statements without arrests are theater. Threat-level upgrades without prosecutions are paperwork. Promises of action without deportations of the foreign agitators leading these marches are promises broken in advance. If the rhetoric is not matched by results — quickly, visibly, and at scale — the fanatics will have learned the only lesson that matters to them: that Britain will flinch, and that Jewish safety can be traded away to keep the peace with those who threaten it.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer visits the Hatzola Northwest independent ambulance base after yesterday’s terrorist incident, on April 30, 2026 in Golders Green, England. A 45-year-old British-Somali man was arrested yesterday, after stabbing two Jewish men, Shloime Rand and Moshe Shine, in a terrorist attack in Golders Green. Both victims are in stable condition, and the suspect was caught by police after being tasered. The government has since pledged £25 million to improve security for the Jewish community following the incident. (James Smith/Sam Snap/Getty Images)

Shurat HaDin did not file the Sánchez complaint as a gesture. We filed it because we have spent two decades building a body of law — in American courts, in European courts and now at The Hague — that holds governments, banks and enablers financially and criminally accountable when they grease the machinery of terror against Jews. We have frozen the assets of terror financiers. We have won judgments against state sponsors. We have made the cost of looking away real.

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The principle behind the Sánchez complaint is straightforward: governments that knowingly create the conditions for attacks on Jews bear legal responsibility for the violence that follows. Spain enabled Iran. The United Kingdom has enabled something different but no less dangerous — a domestic climate in which “globalize the intifada” is chanted in the streets, in which ambulances are firebombed in which Oct. 7 memorials are torched, and in which the official response, until this week, was a candle and a press release.

Protesters hold up flags and placards during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in London, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.  (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

We are already mapping the chain — from the permits issued for the marches, to the speech that crossed the line into incitement, to the warnings ignored, to the attacks that followed. The same legal architecture that put Pedro Sánchez on notice can be turned on Westminster. Sovereignty is not a shield when a government is repeatedly warned of foreseeable, escalating violence against an identifiable minority and chooses, again and again, to do nothing.

The era of indifference is ending — one way or another. Either the British government ends it through enforcement, or we will end it through the courts.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez arrives to attend a press conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on March 20, 2026.  (Pierre-Philippe Marcou / AFP via Getty Images)

To the Jews of Britain: your instincts were right. Your fears were not paranoia. And you are not alone. You have a government that, however belatedly, is beginning to move. You have legal allies prepared to act in every courtroom that will hear us if it does not. And — unlike every Jewish generation before the modern era — you have a Jewish state with an open door. Whether you choose to stay and fight for the Britain you love, or to come home to Israel, you will be defended either way.

This is what “Never Again” looks like when it is not a slogan. It looks like prosecutors. It looks like filings. It looks like the people who tried to make Jewish life unlivable in London discovering that the law has a longer memory than they do.

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We are not finished finding antisemitism and Jew-hatred wherever they hide — in governments, in institutions, in the streets — and we will not stop prosecuting those who enable them. Not in Madrid. Not in London. Not anywhere. We will keep building the cases. We will keep filing the complaints. We will keep dragging the enablers into court until the cost of looking away becomes greater than the cost of standing up.

That is the promise. And we intend to keep it.

China’s military activities around Taiwan seem to be intensifying once again. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry (MND) informed on Wednesday that seven Chinese naval ships and one official ship were found active in its vicinity. This development has once again underlined the increasing tension in the Indo-Pacific region.

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry posted on social media platform

7 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship operating around #Taiwan Detected up until 6 am (UTC+8) today. #ROCArmedForces Have monitored the situation and responded. No flight path illustration is provided, as we did not detect #PLA aircraft operating around Taiwan during this… pic.twitter.com/cbSaSQ8sbZ

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) May 6, 2026

That is, this time no activity of the Chinese Air Force was recorded, but movement was clearly visible on the maritime front.

Activity increased for the second consecutive day

This is not an isolated incident. A day before this, on Tuesday, Taiwan had also recorded China’s military activities. That day, one Chinese military aircraft, six naval ships and one government vessel were found active around Taiwan.

The MND then said, “As of 6 a.m. today (UTC+8), activity of 1 PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN ships, and 1 official vessel was detected in the vicinity of Taiwan. 1 of the 1 aircraft entered Taiwan’s northern ADIZ area. The ROC Armed Forces monitored the situation and responded.”

1 sorties of PLA aircraft, 6 PLAN vessels and 1 official ship operating around Taiwan detected up until 6 am (UTC+8) today. 1 out of 1 sorties entered Taiwan’s northern part ADIZ. #ROCArmedForces Have monitored the situation and responded. pic.twitter.com/Y3D9larU05

— 國防部 Ministry of National Defense, ROC(Taiwan) 🇹🇼 (@MoNDefense) May 5, 2026

The special thing is that the Chinese aircraft also entered the northern part of Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), which is generally considered a sign of increasing tension.

Maritime pressure strategy?

Experts believe that China is now increasingly using “gray zone tactics” to put pressure on Taiwan—that is, a sustained military presence without direct war. This time the absence of air activity and presence of only naval ships is being considered a part of this strategy. This allows China to demonstrate its power without open confrontation and forces Taiwan to remain alert.

Taiwan’s military said it monitored the situation and took necessary countermeasures. However, the nature of this “retaliatory action” was not made public. The increase in Chinese naval activities for two consecutive days is a clear indication that Beijing is continuing its policy of pressure. Although these activities are currently “low-intensity”, but if this pattern continues, larger military exercises or more aggressive steps may be seen in the future. For Taiwan, this is not just a question of security, but an issue of survival and identity.

Taiwan–China dispute: history and present

The dispute between Taiwan and China is not new, but its roots go deep in history. China claims that Taiwan is its integral part. This claim is part of its official policy and is repeated from domestic laws to international forums. Taiwan, on the other hand, considers itself a region with a separate identity. It has its own democratic government, army and strong economy. If we look at history, the Qing dynasty captured Taiwan in 1683. After the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Taiwan came under the control of Japan and remained a Japanese colony for about 50 years. Taiwan returned to Chinese control after World War II, but a formal determination of its sovereignty was never made clear.

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There’s a new playbook in blue state taxation, and it’s not being explained clearly to the people paying the bill.

It’s called the surtax.

And if you think it’s just another tax bracket, you’re already missing the point.

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What is a surtax?

A surtax is a tax layered on top of an existing income tax, not a replacement for it.

In plain English, here’s how it works: You pay your normal state income tax, and then once your income crosses a certain threshold, the state adds an extra percentage on top of that same income.

Surtaxes aren’t just about taxing the rich. They’re about engineering revenue from high-value moments.

It’s the difference between climbing a ladder and having someone add another rung above you just when you think you’ve reached the top and hit success. But why should you be penalized for being successful? It’s anti-capitalist.

Why blue states use surtaxes

States use surtaxes for one simple reason: Targeted revenue without broad backlash.

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Instead of raising taxes on everyone, these states can:

• Focus on high earners, who are often business owners creating jobs.
• They can capture revenue from one-time windfalls, such as business sales and stock gains.
• They can sell it politically as “fairness,” even when you pay seven figures in taxes.
• And it works because only a small percentage of taxpayers are directly affected, but they generate a disproportionate share of revenue.

How the surtax actually works in each state

Let’s walk through the five states leading this surtax movement and look at what they’re really doing.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts is the cleanest example.

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Base income tax: 5% flat rate. Surtax: 4% on income over about $1 million.

That means income above the threshold is taxed at 9% total.

If you sell a business or have a liquidity event, that extra 4% applies directly to the gain, not your entire income, but everything above the line. What a pleasure to build a business, employ hundreds of people, and then pay even more when you sell it.

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California

California takes a slightly different approach.

Base top rate: 12.3% Surtax: 1% on income over $1 million

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That pushes the effective top rate to 13.3%.

This surcharge was originally tied to mental health funding, but make no mistake: It’s a permanent layer for high earners.

New Jersey

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New Jersey operates more like a stepped surtax system.

Income over $1 million is taxed at 10.75%.

This isn’t labeled as a “surtax,” but functionally, it acts like one because once you cross the threshold, your marginal tax rate jumps significantly.

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It’s effectively a millionaire surcharge baked into the rate structure.

New York

New York has one of the most aggressive systems.

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Top state rate: up to 10.9% on very high incomes Add New York City tax, and top earners can exceed 13% combined.

While technically structured as brackets, the “millionaire tax” functions like a surtax because of how sharply rates rise at the top.

Hawaii

Hawaii flies under the radar, but it shouldn’t.

Aerial view of Kauai, Hawaii sunny day. (iStock)

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Top rate: around 11%. Recent adjustments added higher brackets for top earners.

It’s not always labeled as a surtax, but the effect is the same: a premium tax layer on higher income levels.

The sinister part they don’t tell you

Here’s what doesn’t make the political talking points:

Surtaxes are not just about income. Instead, they’re about timing.

They hit hardest when:

• You sell a business 
• You exercise stock options 
• You have a one-time capital gain

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In other words, they target moments of success, not just steady earnings. And if you are successful, you are likely to acquire more property and pay more real estate taxes and consumption taxes where they exist. You can end up keeping barely 50 cents of every dollar you make.

The real-world impact

Cross that threshold, and your marginal tax rate jumps fast.

In Massachusetts, that extra 4% can mean:

$40,000 on every additional $1 million and hundreds of thousands, potentially millions, lost on a business exit

And once you stack federal taxes on top, the total tax bite becomes very real.

The Bottom line

Surtaxes aren’t just about taxing the rich. They’re about engineering revenue from high-value moments.

They’re precise. They’re targeted. And they’re expanding.

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My advice for all Americans: Be careful that this doesn’t become a path for the federal government in the future.

Because once a state figures out it can quietly add another layer at the top, it’s very hard to take it away.

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