Fatal attack outside Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur

This morning, a car ramming and stabbing attack took place outside Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester.

It is understood that two were killed in the attack, with four in hospital with serious injuries.

The attacker is believed to be dead, after being shot by police.

The attack happened during Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. Other synagogues in the area cancelled Yom Kippur services following the news.

Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism, said: “Today’s attack was made inevitable by the radicalisation and Islamist extremism that have been allowed to spread by successive governments, which have ignored every warning and done practically nothing to tackle it. Now, the blood of British Jews cries out from the ground.

“Those who were murdered today were simply going to synagogue to pray on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. It has been a long time since British Jews had faith in our politicians, police and institutions. Their appeasement of extremists — especially those of the far-left and radical Islamists — is what has made today’s attack inevitable. The eyes of the Jewish people worldwide and decent Britons across the country now turn to Downing Street, not for thoughts and prayers or empty declarations that antisemitism has no place in Britain, but to hear what concrete, forceful measures will now be enacted.

“Today, the blood of British Jews is on the hands of virtue-signalling politicians who have poured fuel on the fire of extremism with their posturing and appeasement, police forces and police chiefs who have failed to tackle the mobs on our streets, universities and schools that have tolerated incitement, the BBC whose bias and moral collapse has essentially turned them into spokespeople for Hamas, whom they still refuse to call terrorists, and regulators like the Charity Commission that has failed abjectly to address dangerous rhetoric at mosques. We need firm and urgent action on each of these fronts, otherwise it is inevitable that yet more innocents will be murdered on our streets.”