Jewish community feared attack like Manchester amid rise in antisemitic incidents
The members of the Jewish community say that they have been in fear of a great attack for almost two years.
Synagogues, schools and other Jewish areas in the country increased security as it encountered an increase in anti -Semitic events after the war in Gaza.
On Thursday, Hamas became a fact of a knife, which was suspected of worshiping outside the Manchester synagogue of a knife wearing a suicide vest, almost two years after starting the attacks on October 7, 2023.
Two members of the Jewish community in Heaton Park were killed in a car and knife attack declared a terrorist incident in Crumpsall. Three of them were heavily injured.
Yom Kippur, who had more points gathered to mark the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, bariced themselves in the synagogue until he was killed by the attacker police.
When a phone call that said it was an incident this morning, a worshiper going to the synagogue said that the Jewish community knew that this would happen.
Raphi Bloom, co -chairman of friends of friends of Israel, said that the event was the “climax of the Jewish hatred of the Jewish community.
“We knew it would happen,” he said BBC Radio 4’s World. “We were afraid that this would happen.
“This hatred was allowed to be uncontrolled for a very long time, and this is the tragic and terrible climax of people who want to target the Jewish community in the UK for a conflict 2,500 miles.”
According to the Community Security Foundation (CST), a charity that works to protect Jews from terrorism and anti -Semitism, an average of 161 antisemitic events per month before October 7, 2023.
In the first six months of 2025, this monthly an average of 254 events – an increase of 58 percent.
In total, he recorded 4,296 antisemitic events in CST 2023 and 3,528 in 2024 and two points in the record.
In February, the government promised £ 70 million for four years to finance measures of Jewish community sites such as “security guards, CCTV and alarm systems”.
According to local deputy Graham Stringer, a Jewish school near the crumpsall synagogue is among those who require “heavy security ..
Speaking to the world of BBC Radio 4, Blackley and Middleton South deputy said that it thinks it was “internal depressing” and “terrible ,, and that these children feel that these children are under threat as safety should be paid in their schools.
Former Minister of Interior Minister Yette Cooper, who discussed the abuse of Jewish communities in March this year, said: “The threats of killing to the synagogues. Individuals spit on the street or attacked on the street. Graffiti was scared in religious areas. Antisemitic bullying in schools.
“We all know that fear has grown since Hamas’s Barbarian terrorist attack on 7 October 2023.”
Nick Aldworth, a former national coordinator for anti -terrorist policing, said that he was “not surprised içinde about the attack on the synagogue in Yom Kippur, because the holy days brought an additional anxiety”.
He said BBC Radio 4: Im I wasn’t surprised that this happened. Yesterday, on the way home, there was a feature on the radio 4, today it was Yom Kippur.
“And we have noticed that the reason I said this brought high sacred days to the Jewish community and those who were responsible for protecting these communities.
“And in London, I was probably responsible for a major operation for the new year or notting Hill carnival to protect these communities during the high sacred day.
“So I know that the same thing is reflected in Manchester, which can explain why it is such a quick response today. But no, I wasn’t surprised.”
The authority added that the British threat level is now “important ,, but an attack is likely, in fact,“ We often see that our communities are at higher threat levels of their sectors, and often the Jewish community is at a higher threat level than significant ”.
Deputy Commissioner Laurence Taylor, against the President of Terror Policing, said that the police “took action quickly” to protect the Jewish communities after the attack.
“An attack on our Jewish community today on Yom Kippur today,” he said.
“Communities throughout England are normally worried about grief and security of this sacred day, and I want to be open, England is acting and moving quickly.
“Police forces increase patrols throughout the country in Synagogues and Jewish areas to provide assurance to all communities affected by this incident.”
