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Published on: 04/30/2026 - 07:42 Modified on: 04/30/2026 - 10:22

In the headlines on Thursday: reactions to the knife attack on Wednesday in the Jewish district of Golders Green in London, which left two people injured; the cold snap between the United States and Germany; the controversy in France around May 1; proposals to defend journalists and creators against AI; and perhaps the end of the “summer body” diktat.

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In the headlines of the press, Thursday April 30: reactions to the knife attack on Wednesday in the Jewish district of Golders Green in London, which left two people injured. The alleged perpetrator of this stabbing attack, then his neutralization by two police officers and a passer-by, made the front page of the Daily Mirror, which denounced a "disgusting anti-Semitic attack", revolting. An attack described as a “terrorist act” by the London police, cited by the Guardian. “An attack on the United Kingdom itself,” responded Golders Green MP Sarah Sackman, according to The Daily Express.

“How many more?”: The Sun reports a “rise” in anti-Semitic attacks in the United Kingdom, particularly in London, where a series of anti-Semitic fires have occurred in recent weeks. The Daily Telegraph cites the reaction of the Israeli Prime Minister. According to Benjamin Netanyahu, anti-Semitic acts are “out of control” in the United Kingdom and Keir Starmer should do more to “protect the Jews of England”.

The British government is also accused by part of the Jewish community. Jewish Chronicle, the oldest Jewish publication in the world, which has experienced quite a bit of turmoil linked to its coverage of the war in Gaza, accuses the executive of having "failed in its mission towards British Jews". “The Labor Party has spent two years portraying Israel as an evil country and rewarding Hamas for its October 7 massacre by recognizing a Palestinian state, asserts the British weekly. What did it expect for our community?”

The Guardian specifies that the attack was claimed by a group called Hayi, an acronym which can be translated as “the Movement of the Companions of the Islamic Right Hand”. This group has claimed responsibility for other anti-Semitic attacks across Europe, notably in France, but the newspaper believes that this latest claim could be more "opportunistic rather than controlled by a state", Iran in this case.

Nothing is going well between Trump and Merz

The United Kingdom is not the only one to be affected by the increase in anti-Semitic attacks since October 7. Haaretz reports that the words "kill all Jews" were spray-painted on a Berlin building last weekend, while a synagogue near the German capital was also vandalized twice in four days. The Israeli daily cites figures from the European Jewish Council, according to which anti-Semitic acts are increasing across the Rhine, with more than 2,200 cases recorded in 2025, an increase of 24% compared to 2024.

Germany, which President Trump is threatening with a reduction in American troops stationed on its soil. Die Zeit notes that this announcement "comes in a context of tensions between Trump and the German chancellor over the war in Iran", after Friedrich Merz accused the United States of allowing itself to be "humiliated" by Tehran. Between Trump and Merz, nothing is going well, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung regrets that there is no “golden mean” with the American president. Because if the newspaper considers that it is saying "absurdity" when it claims that the German chancellor "approves the fact that Iran possesses nuclear weapons", it is "true", according to the newspaper, that Berlin "does not have a better strategy (than Washington) to face the threatening regime of Tehran".

Faced with these tensions, Germany is pursuing its rearmament strategy, the consequences of which The Financial Times attempts to measure for Europe. The British daily notably reports France's concerns for its arms industry and for "the sovereignty of the continent", "the rapid strengthening of Berlin's defense capabilities" risks increasing its "dependence" on its American suppliers.

May 1st, “a sprig of lily of the valley in a field of anger”

In France, the controversy over May 1st has not died down. Les Échos indicates that the government validated on Wednesday the bill on the possibility for craftsmen to have their employees work on this traditionally public holiday, and that while waiting for its entry into force, it calls for "collective intelligence".

A formula that is far too vague, according to Le Figaro, which explains that "this choice of confusion has an essential virtue for the government: to avoid confrontation with the unions and the left, braced on the totem of May 1st". L'Humanité recalls that May 1 "embodies the history of the labor movement", a "symbol of social struggles": "The reactionaries have made it a target, we will continue to make it a symbol. Like a sprig of lily of the valley in a field of anger".

The world of work faces the rise of artificial intelligence in 2026. Le Figaro publishes a column from the General Information Press Alliance, which brings together all French daily newspapers, calling for support for a proposed law whose aim is to create a “presumption of use of journalistic and cultural content” by artificial intelligence providers.

A text to protect the work of journalists and creators. Still on this subject, to find on the side of Courrier International, the dump of the South African Minister of Communication who was forced to withdraw a bill aiming to regulate, again, the use of artificial intelligence, after a media revealed that its text had undoubtedly been written... with the help of AI.

“Body positivism” rather than “summer body”

We end this press review with good news, at least for those who are lucky enough to be going on vacation and who may have pushed a little too hard on raclette and tartiflette this winter: Le Parisien/heure en France assures us, the pressure of the "summer body", the dream body for swimming trunks or the bikini, is over - well not quite in reality.

The journal reports on the progress of "body positivism", which invites us to detach ourselves from distressing injunctions, to accept our body as it is. The important thing, of course, is to have a healthy mind in a healthy body.

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