The Manchester synagogue attack is a test of Britain’s traditional tolerance

FThe ROM can be gathered so far, the Heaton Park Hebrew Synagogue attack in Manchester was undoubtedly anti -Semitic. Yom Kippur, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar, could not be a coincidence, and on October 7, 2023, at a music festival in Israel, he carries a terrible echo of the persecution committed by Hamas.

In a sacred place of worship, three people died on the day of serious atonement, including the perpetrator, and three more in the hospital. The police response was rapid and deadly, and undoubtedly, especially as the subject, he saved more people from damage. The synagogue was full of children – a terrible thought.

At a time when we reminded the grave defects of some forces, the Great Manchester police showed the best professionalism.

The Prime Minister was right to visit Denmark and mobilize the Cobra Emergency apparatus and find out what happened and discover closer threats. For the already strict synagogues and other Jewish centers, security has been accelerated and both community security trust and all the resources and protection of Jewish communities need to be provided.

Even the secret intelligence service does not know whether it is a one -time “lonely wolf” attack or whether it is part of a campaign or whether or not to follow the imitator attacks. Defense should be strengthened. Sir Keir Starmer and the Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, the Great Manchester, will do their best to protect the Jewish communities and this is a little assurance.

For the northern city, it is a reminder of this kind of terror threat by mixing the memories of Manchester Arena in 2017 by a extremist who claims 22 lives and demands hundreds of lives. There is no evidence of the fact that this is a clearly anti -Semitic attack and should be handled in this way.

For the Jewish community in the UK and around the world, it clearly comes as a shock – a terrible, cowardly, lethal terrorist attack – but the terrible truth is that many Jews in England felt that they will come at the end of a day.

In a tragic way, their fears have come true and they have made painful questions about the protection of the authorities in recent years. To give an example, only last month, an individual found feces on Synagoges and other Jewish centers around Golders Green in London. It was relatively small -scale violence, but it took too long to capture a suspect, and the Jewish people caused it to feel that it was not taken seriously enough. This is a complaint that makes people feel frightening and vulnerable – and if it is performed with unpunished, it can invite more serious actions.

All kinds of Jewish-Nefret events have been increasing for several years, and the tendency has accelerated since the October 7 attacks and the war in Gaza. The facts must face. Some social media platforms landed in embarrassing digital antisemitic propaganda channels, inferior blood libel and antisemitic conspiracy theories of old and newly spread.

Some of this material is produced by racial superiorists on the right, and most, unfortunately, unfortunately, a period of time, including a period of time, and sometimes the Jewish community is 2,000 miles away from the Jewish community to take into account the actions of the Israeli government.

It is wrong that some Jewish people were afraid to enter the center of London during pro -Palestinian protests, frightened by the allegations of a new Holocaust given by the “Nazi” Israeli state. Physical attacks on synagogues and Jewish schools increased. None of this is unacceptable because it will not be for another group.

Every police force should look again from this last Manchester attack which courses can be learned. Security services will have to explain how this private land has been kidnapped, which will allow much more to be prevented and it is impossible to have the full supervision of every possible threat.

In vain, British authorities should look back to social media companies such as X to control and restrict incentives open to racial hatred. It will definitely be a complete investigation into what happened.

In the last few weeks, he has seen open racism and a violent language, and it is using a more dangerous political culture. What happened in Manchester was, above all, a bad attack on the Jewish people. It is also another test of England’s traditionally tolerant, multicultural democracy.