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2025-10-03 Britain
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Organizers spurn UK police’s plea to shelve anti-Israel rally after synagogue attack
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[IsraelTimes] Organizers of a protest against the UK’s ban on the Palestine Action group have rejected London police’s plea to shelve their rally in the wake of a deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue over Yom Kippur, The Guardian reports.
Postponing the planned Saturday rally would allow law enforcement to focus on protecting Jewish and Muslim communities in wake of the attack, police said in their letter to the organizers.
But organizers nevertheless reject the police’s request and say they will go ahead with the weekend demonstration, which is expected to draw a massive crowd.
In a letter to the Metropolitan police, the organizing group Defend Our Juries reportedly urges officers to “prioritize protecting the community rather than arresting those peacefully holding signs in opposition to the absurd and draconian ban of a domestic direct action group.”
While condemning the Manchester synagogue attack that left two dead and four seriously injured, the activist group insists that it is up to law enforcement whether it wants to dispatch police to secure the protest.
“It appears the political oversight in proscribing Palestine Action, which aimed to save lives in Palestine, is taking away from the police protecting the community from those who seek to take lives,” their letter continues, as quoted by UK outlets.
… suddenly interrupted. A synagogue security official went up to the bimah and said there had been a “major incident” in the north and they were locking down the synagogue. There was a buzz of fear. Children’s services were canceled. We were not to leave.
My friend looked at me, and said, “You see what I mean. 10 years.”
In 2025, two Jews were murdered for the crime of praying in a synagogue in Britain.
Truth is, I don’t know a single Jewish family in London who doesn’t speak openly and often about leaving. These are dyed in the wool Brits, who love this country. But they are watching the England they know disintegrate around them.
British Jews have lost the right to security and safety. The response by authorities to this attack is to pledge more security at Jewish schools and synagogues. They’re just restating the problem.
Why should Jewish kids go to school in London or Manchester under a phalanx of security guards? Why do synagogues need a rotation of specially trained guards at every event? (For what it’s worth not a single police officer showed up at our synagogue after the attack in Manchester. Guess they were busy.)
Jewish parents who pass by secular and non-Jewish parochial schools might gaze in wonder - perhaps envy - at the sight of children entering their schools without six or seven men in stab vests standing guard. And Keir Starmer comes out with his valiant statement “We will defeat antisemitism.” No. They will tolerate it, ally with it, reward its most virulent proponents.
And the most insane part is that I write this with full knowledge that it’s me who might get the knock on my door from the police to ask me about this very tweet, which they find “concerning.”
Tell me how to make sense of it.
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