3 d. ago Campaign Against Antisemitism announce Downing Street protest on anniversary of Manchester synagogue attack

'Britain must show that it truly wants to keep its Jews safe'

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4 d. ago Wife of synagogue terrorist says he showed no signs of extremism

Exclusive: Wife of Jihad al-Shamie says he was ‘intimidating, aggressive and controlling’ but did not seem radicalisedThe Manchester synagogue terrorist was “intimidating, aggressive and controlling” but showed no sign of extremism before carrying out his lethal antisemitic attack, one of his wives has said.The woman, who married Jihad al-Shamie in an Islamic ceremony in 2021, said the 35-year-old was “glued to his phone” watching Arabic news channels but did not appear to be on the path to terror. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Wife of synagogue attacker says he showed no signs of extremism

Exclusive: Wife of Jihad al-Shamie says he was ‘intimidating, aggressive and controlling’ but did not seem radicalisedThe Manchester synagogue attacker was “intimidating, aggressive and controlling” but showed no sign of extremism before carrying out his lethal antisemitic attack, one of his wives has said.The woman, who married Jihad al-Shamie in an Islamic ceremony in 2021, said the 35-year-old was “glued to his phone” watching Arabic news channels but did not appear to be on the path to terror. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Bob Vylan's Manchester gig should be cancelled following synagogue attack, Jewish leaders say

A Jewish organisation has called for the cancellation of a Bob Vylan gig in Manchester.

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6 d. ago It starts with Palestine protests. But where will the crackdown on Britain’s democratic freedoms end? | Owen Jones

In making dissent a privilege, not a right, Labour is crafting a repressive toolkit. Imagine it in the hands of a Farage governmentIn Britain, protest is no longer a right. Instead, it is a privilege that is granted – or withheld – at the whim of those in power. This is the implication of new rules that the Labour government is proposing, which would dictate the time and place that protests are permitted to occur, and carry the risk of prison time for those who defy orders. Successive governments had already chipped away at this right: the last Conservative administration granted the police sweeping new powers, which the United Nations’ human rights chief condemned as “serious and undue restrictions” on democratic freedoms. Taken together, these incremental assaults on freedom have effectively abolished the hard-won right to freedom of protest.The latest assault is justified by last week’s heinous antisemitic attack on a mosque in Manchester. There should be universal agreement that...

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8 d. ago Kemi Badenoch says we cannot fight antisemitism 'with nice words' as she visits scene of synagogue terror attack

The Tory leader visited Crumpsall today in the wake of the Heaton Park synagogue attack

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9 d. ago In a time of hate and rancour, two Jews sought to pray – and were killed. Let Manchester be a turning point | Jonathan Freedland

This was a horror but amid rising antisemitism, no one can say it was a surprise. There are lessons to learn, and that must start nowIt was the Jewish New Year last week, when the traditional greeting is shana tova: a good year. This time around, you’d often hear it in adapted form, as Jews wished each other something more modest: “A better year.” As if, given the times we live in, “good” would be too much to ask for; as if we ought to scale down expectations. It turns out we didn’t scale them down enough.I was in synagogue when word spread of the murderous attack at Heaton Park in north Manchester that left two people dead, along with the killer. Yom Kippur is rightly described as the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, but it is also a moment of vulnerability. Those who follow tradition, and that includes plenty who wouldn’t describe themselves as believers in God, do not eat or drink for 25 hours; many switch off their phones, and don’t watch TV or listen to the radio; they engag...

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9 d. ago ‘We’ve been waiting for this’: Rabbi speaks of antisemitism fears after Manchester attack

A Rabbi has said the Jewish community in Manchester had been expecting an attack to happen, as he reacted to the terror attack on a synagogue which killed two people.

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1 week ago 'Blood of British Jews is on your hands': Campaign Against Antisemitism boss blames 'virtue

Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, described today's attack as an 'inevitable result' of the 'radicalisation' that has been allowed to spread up across the country.

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1 week ago Manchester synagogue latest: Starmer warns UK faces ‘rising tide’ of antisemitism after two killed in terror attack

Police have confirmed two members of the Jewish community have died following car and knife attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar

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

Editorial: The car and knife attack on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, was an explicitly antisemitic attack – but now is a time to come together and not sow division

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1 week ago President of Israel makes unprecedented plea to King Charles over rising antisemitism

Three days before today's Manchester terror attack, the Israeli President Issac Herzog pointed to a spike in antisemitism cases and called on the King to raise it with leaders.

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1 week ago Synagogue attacker who killed two was a ‘terrorist targeting Jews because they are Jews’, says Starmer – latest updates

Britain must defeat rising antisemitism, says PM, following attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur Full story: two killed and suspect shot deadPolice have shot a suspect after several people were stabbed and a car was driven at members of the public at the Heaton Park Hebrew congregation synagogue in Crumpsall, Greater Manchester Police said.The force posted on X saying police were called to the synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public and one man had been stabbed.Police said four people have suffered injuries caused by a vehicle and stabbings at a synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester.A cordon has been set up after the incident, and a major road had been closed while officers attended. Paramedics are at the scene.Greater Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, said the “immediate danger appears to be over” after reports of a “serious incident”.Burnham has told BBC Radio Mancheste...

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1 week ago Israel warns Labour must end 'toxic wave of antisemitism' in Britain after Manchester synagogue attack

Gideon Sa'ar condemned the 'murderous attack' which took place earlier this morning outside the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester and claimed the lives of two Jewish people.

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1 week ago Jewish community feared attack like Manchester amid rise in antisemitic incidents

One worshipper at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue said the attack was the ‘culmination’ of a ‘tsunami of Jew hatred’ since 7 October 2023

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1 week ago Rabbi Assaulted With Chicken Bones in Antisemitic Attack in London

Rabbi Assaulted With Chicken Bones in Antisemitic Attack in London  Combat Antisemitism Movement

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2 w. ago WATCH: London Rabbi Assaulted with Chicken Bones in Antisemitic Attack

WATCH: London Rabbi Assaulted with Chicken Bones in Antisemitic Attack  VINnews

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2 w. ago Rabbi, 77, 'verbally abused and pelted with chicken bones' outside London Boots in apparent antisemitic attack

Shomrim said they are currently supporting the Jewish man who was left ‘shaken and traumatised’ in Hackney

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3 w. ago Welsh gardeners urged to put chicken bones in gardens this autumn

A popular content creator has revealed a useful hack for gardeners this autumn - and it involves chicken bones

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