Terrible Scenes At Heaton Park Synagogue

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Absolutely shocking attack at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall North Manchester. My heart goes out to all those hurt and affected by this terrible atrocity.

Who else was it going to be, those pesky Sikhs? 🙄

Agree

This is awful

No, it’s not bad that you wished that, but I will be honest, the vacuum where utter condemnation should be in the Muslim community when these things happen will be noted

That’s disgusting and I weep for what my country has become.

It's all so depressing.

I hear you. This helps none of us from either of our communities who only want peace and to live side by side in harmony. Thank you for your post.

It's not religion, its extremists using religion.

What action? Driving cars into Jews maybe?

Absolutely horrific but sadly I am not surprised. Anti-Semitic is growing rapidly with the Palestine/ Israeli war and people appear unable to distinguish between everyday Jewish people and the state of Israel and what they are doing.

The same action they very much didn’t want when we waded into other conflicts?

It’s heartbreaking - they were just going to synagogue.

No, not buying this whitewashing of the situation.

Same could be said of the people marching and protesting about immigration. Dont conflate racism with politics. People expressing that politicians need to be held to account about how our population is increasing, services and resources being used (or not being increased to manage the increase in need), etc etc

Those people are marching and protesting simply because they dont like brown people and 'foreigners'.

What you do and how you signal your views says a lot about you. You join a march shouting down Israelis and using phrases like 'from the river to the sea'. You're anti semitic, end of.

I am so sorry . That is unforgivable. Just try and keep in your mind that most people are tolerant and peaceful. For some reasons the extremes of hard right and hard left seem to attract a certain type of person. Who always think they are right.

Unfortunately the anti-Israel and pro-Palestine rhetoric has emboldened the extremist idiots who now think anti-semitism is acceptable.

It is shameful that so many have stood back and allowed this to happen

I well remember, just after the Hamas attack, seeing footage of people both here and in Gaza, openly celebrating the attack by Hamas

So do I, @GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER, just as I remember celebrations after 9/11 and other atrocities - and doubtless there'll be others after this

Any normal person's heart goes out to those who suffer this kind of focused hatred, but there was no action taken against those who drove through jewwish areas yelling obscenities and threats and I don't kid myself this will change

@Uggbootsforever

I have already read about at least one muslim leader who have already spoken out against the attack and declared antisemitism in all forms as abhorrent. There will be others and their voices should be amplified. It’s important not to tar all muslims as extremists.

Muslim Council of Britain have put out a statement condemning the attack. I guess such statements are of themselves not newsworthy,

This is an horrendous attack. On a day where we should be looking to tackle division in our society, we are instead seeing more of it on here.

Thank you.

Abd the right encouraging it.

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Right wing people are to blame when a likely Muslim murders Jews? Ohhhhh no you don’t

This is a hate crime, and I feel like Jewish people are no longer safe in the UK.

The first I heard of it was on news posts of the media and people were still writing “free Palestine” on the bloody posts.

I’m sick of it! I’m heartbroken for these people

I'm deeply wsorry you had to experience this, Jujujudo, and unfortunately it's where deep seated antisemitism, inappropriate tolerance and rationalising this kind of hate has brought us

Sadly, though, it won't make any difference to those who try to pretend such marches are "for peace", and I'm only waiting for one of them to insist you're making it up

But Israel is not defending itself. It's committing genocide as now recognised by most countries in the world.

As I said my my first post this is not the day for the world politics and conflating two separate issues-government and religion. Its about giving strength and support to the Jewish community who no doubt will be in mourning following the attack on a synagogue.