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.

Not in this climate. No. Absolutely not. We need to calm the temperature across the board.

Another non Jew here who has been motivated by the events of the past two years to do all I can to show solidarity with Jewish people. I’ve become active in the Campaign against anti-Semitism and made it my personal mission to speak out again anti-Semitism whenever I encounter it.

I don't know what to say. We all saw this coming.

It's horrendous and will also play into the hands of Reform.

I’m assuming.

I may be wrong.

I don’t think I am.

That’s your first concern is it

Please know the venom on the citme threads does not represent the majority ❤️. There is a vocal minority granted but most intelligent people do not fall for the propaganda.

I haven’t watched the video people are mentioning but yes they did a good job. He didn’t get inside.

Sadly, I agree. There was an inevitability

It's not our war. Let the middle east sort it out. We're dragged into it mainly due to an increasing number of people living or settling here who are trying to make it our war. There are hundreds of wars and genocide happening in the world. Let's not cherry pick which ones people want to force us to get involved with.

He was heard shouting alloha akbar so I think we can presume he is.

Agreed; there comes a point when there's just no point arguing with idiots.

Reform is the least of our worries, but unless the government really steps up and gets a grip this is going to be placed squarely on the shoulders of the Labour Party for not doing enough to stamp out this growing danger much faster. They have been too slow to respond to the growing crisis.

Absolutely Muslim. The description tells us that.

I’m speechless. There’s a real lack of humanity atm.

I saw a clip of it, it amazes me that someone is standing by videoing it. Absolutely horrific all round. I know the world is a mad place but Manchester really doesn't need this after what happened at the arena :(

Yep, they might also now be off work for a while reducing their income. Not that this should matter but it will affect them so we need to be so so grateful for the officers who put themselves in this position to keep people safe.

The BBC will probably send in a journalist undercover to win their trust, get them drunk and run a grossly biased programme on this stating how badly the knife attacker was treated.

I really hope that if any good comes out of those is that the people waving Palestinian flags realises they’re waving the flag of a group who have not only done this to thousands already but would happily do it to millions more.

hugs - don't know what to say, it's so awful.

The attack is shocking but also shocking is the behaviour of the knobjobs who stood around filming the victims rather than try and help them.

I’ve even seen footage of a bystander shouting instructions at the armed police, whilst filming on his phone. “You wanna shoot mate, he’s got a bomb on him there” must be up there with the most unhelpful phrase yelled at a trained professional by a feckwit ever!

“Palestine” grandstanding.
Really?! And you are an expert on these marches are you? Have you actually attended one? By and large they are peaceful and objecting of Israeli politics not Jewish people. If anything you have ill informed political views. I have Jewish friends who have attended as they oppose the politics of Israel and also proudly Jewish.

My thoughts are with anyone affected by today's tragedy. It's absolutely disgusting that this happened today of all days and antisemitism should be called out as should the complicity of UKs role in the genocide happening in Gaza.

Me and my children were caught up in a “peaceful” protest in London one Saturday. We encountered a burning doll of a hook nosed rabbi with people dancing around it. We heard chants like: we we are all Hamas! And a group of girls started hissing when I walked past (I have a small Star of David necklace) which I later found out was meant to be the sound of the gas chambers. My kids were terrified and I’m too short to be able to see over people so my teenage son had to lead us to safety. I felt threatened, unsafe and intimidated and eff of if you proclaim to give a shit about Palestinians. These people hate Jews. That’s all.

I am Muslim, is it bad to say i was hoping the attacker wasn't Muslim. Most of us British Muslims do not condone such acts on our fellow brits regardless of their background.

My sincere condolences to the Jewish community x

I mean ‘by and large’ the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ marches are peaceful and objecting of immigration policy, not brown people.

But I’m guessing you disagree with that because it doesn’t fit a narrative

yes this