ALEX BRUMMER: My father was a Holocaust refugee – I thank the Lord he’s not here to see this in Britain

On Wednesday evening, my son Gabriel was in the route of volunteers who preserved the developing local synagogue in Richmond-Upon-Thams to mark the Jewish Holy Day of Yom Kippur, the beginning of Fasting and Prayer.

It was his job to protect the entrance out of the glass by wearing a ‘knife vest’ with a yellow hi-viz jacket and radio.

Fortunately, 45 minutes were in charge, but when I first heard the terrible events that took place in Manchester on Thursday morning, I couldn’t help reflect the fragility of my son and his brave colleagues on the security route of the synagogue.

And my thoughts immediately went to the families of volunteers who did the same job as Gabriel in the Heaton Park Synagogue.

Kol Nidrei – The only day of the Jewish year in which synagogues are filled into the beams.

In our community, the first word of the terrible attack in Manchester was filtered from the supervisor of the Security Rota, one of the leading experts in the world in the afternoon airport security.

He received a message from Community Security (CST), a Jewish charity, which is a Jewish charity (CST), a Jewish charity.

Rabbi and Honorary Officers decided to serve normally with special prayers, including the Psalm 121, including the ‘I raise my eyes to the mountains’ in honor of the victims and the wounded. At the end of the services, special arrangements were made to safely exit from the synagogue at 19:00. People left in small groups and metropolitan police officers were standing at the front door and on the main road.

It blocks the White House Boulevard near the knives scene in Manchester

Until Thursday, the worst thing that has been in the settlement of the civilian suburban suburban suburban suburban suburban London in the settlement of the Hamas on October 7, 2023 was the bullshit of the swastika crosses on an external wall. It was a worrying event, but it was quickly handled with the help of non -neighboring Jewish friends.

However, after the anger of Thursday, there is an acute awareness that our security volunteers represent the last line of defense not only for the demonstration but also against the Semites.

In my Richmond Shul, Philip Spencer, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide at the University of Kingston, launched a question-answer session on genocide.

Spencer, a respected member of our community, reflected that most of the generations that emerged after the Holocaust thought that the industrialized murder of six million Jews served as a kind of protection against anti-Semitism. It was such a terrible barbarism that it could not be again.

However, when many victims were separated, disintegrated or raped, more than 1,000 Israeli (some British) died on October 7, he answered the Israeli forces rather than left -leaning newspapers, UN Human Rights Organizations and a number of politicians.

In fact, the members of the Israeli defense forces are soldiers in the war, and if there are extremes, this is not a matter of genocide, but about the violations of experts’ violations of war rules.

Nevertheless, in the heart of London, Manchester, Leeds, Brightton and other cities with the great Jewish population are the oldest hatred of the anti-Semitism-world. It was foment by jihadist groups, but was supported by ordinary British citizens. Neighbors, friends and women who were once in school with my wife bought a harmful narrative.

For me, the first generation sconion of a gas and burned family, which was exploited in the furnaces of Auschwitz-Birkenau, could not be more disturbing and sad. As I grew up in Brighton, I occasionally encountered anti-Semitism. For example, there was an art master who shouted ‘Jewish children cannot paint’. I wish I had known Chagall, Pissarro, Kandinsky and all other Jewish masters.

However, prejudice against the Jews was not more threatening than what Roman Catholics Schoolkids faced. How different today. London Pro-Palestinian marches in the Jewish Sabit, which deliberately passed the doors of the synagogues, could take place in Germany in the 1920s or 1930s.

As a member of the Western Marble Arch synagogue adjacent to Hyde Park, where a Brummer family celebrated earlier this year, I was horrified to hear the struggles of the community’s bright rabbi Daniel Epstein.

During the breakfast on a Sunday morning, a leading lawyer has to make a leading lawyer company to convince the metropolitan police and local authorities to remove them from the synagogue gates. If the anti-Israel emotion is not anti-Semitism, why should such a hostile regiment on earth go through the places where Jews pray?

When I returned from the synagogue on Thursday evening, I opened the BBC and Sky News channels. None of the publishers have made any connection between the events in Manchester and the Gaza and Palestinians National Dialogue.

In an e-mail, the Cruel Real, who attracted my attention by a non-Jewish colleague, justified terrorist attacks when he knew the Palestinian province in his previous role as Keir Starmer and David Lammy’s external secretary. In fact, despite the ordeal of the 42 hostages (many of them are already dead), they declared that Hamas terrorism was acceptable.

Hamas advocates erasing Israel, which is home to six million Jews and two million Palestinians Israel. My dear late father, a brave refugee of the genocide, was an unshakable patriotic belief in the tolerance of the British people.

I would like to thank his Lord that he did not witness this belief in a deadly way today.