Posted on 10/02/2025 6:41:09 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Jews across the UK have been urged to lock their doors and not to congregate in groups as police patrols are stepped up outside synagogues and in areas with large Jewish populations after the Manchester attack.
Sir Keir Starmer told the Jewish community that he would do “everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve” as he announced additional police officers and assets would be deployed to all Jewish communities.
Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, said that she would “do whatever is required” to keep the Jewish community safe as she visited the site of the attack on Thursday evening.
Laurence Taylor, the head of counter-terrorism policing in Britain, said that policing was “mobilising and is mobilising fast”.
He said: “Police forces are stepping up patrols across the country, at synagogues and Jewish sites and more widely, to provide reassurance to all communities who are affected.”
Across the country, police officers were seen stationed outside synagogues throughout Thursday.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a group that provides private security measures outside synagogues and Jewish institutions, issued guidance to help the community to feel safe.
It said: “Everyone attending synagogue or any other Jewish premises must follow all instructions from security guards and police officers. In particular, we urge people not to congregate outside communal premises and synagogues and to keep their doors closed at all times.”
It said that it was working closely with police forces across the country to ensure that security around synagogues and in the wider Jewish community was “as strong as it can be” over the coming days and weeks.
In a statement aimed directly at the Jewish community delivered from inside No 10, Starmer said: “To every Jewish person in this country, I also want to say this: I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you. I really do. And so on behalf of our country, I express my solidarity, but also my sadness that you still have to live with these fears. Nobody should have to do that — nobody. And so I promise you that I will do everything in my power to guarantee you the security you deserve, starting with a more visible police presence, protecting your community.”
Earlier this year the CST was promised a £70 million security funding guarantee for the next four years to help its work protecting Jewish community sites and government sources said that this was likely to be increased following the attack in Crumpsall, Manchester.
The money funds measures such as security guards, CCTV and alarm systems.
Each synagogue typically has its own security detail drawn from its own congregation, who work in conjunction with an external security guard from an agency who is specially trained. The security guard stands guard at the main gates of the synagogue while the two members of the synagogue are stationed near the entrance to the synagogue.
The two members typically wear a high-vis jacket and often a stab-proof vest. The Heaton Park synagogue, where the attack unfolded on Thursday, always equips them with the vests, a member of the congregation said.
The security team usually recognises most of those attending regular services but on holy days, such as Yom Kippur, there will be many unfamiliar faces. This poses an added security risk.
Mayor Andy Burnham, Secretary of State Shabana Mahmood, and Chief Constable Sir Stephen Watson visit the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue after a stabbing and car attack.
Burnham and Mahmood with Sir Stephen Watson, the chief constable of Manchester Nigel Tobias, a board member of the Jewish Representative Council in Manchester, urged Starmer and other political leaders in the UK to “tone down” the government’s rhetoric about Israel’s actions in Gaza, which he said had contributed to the rising threat against Jews in the UK.
He told The Times: “The prime minister has come out and said that he wants to increase the security around synagogues. But what I would like to see him do is enable that security to be lowered because the tone is lowered so that it can be respectful and people can hold opposing opinions genuinely respectfully without resorting to violence.
“I think there’s more to be done on that so that Jews need less security. Why should it be that Jews have to have security guards to go and pray?”
Vandalism to synagogues and antisemitic abuse in the street and online have risen sharply in Britain since the October 7 terror attack of 2023, and spurred fears of a fatal attack in this country. Those fears have now been realised.
Some Jewish people are likely to have heard nothing about the attack because it is customary to turn off phones and other electronic devices for Yom Kippur, a day on which Jews pray and fast to seek forgiveness for the sins of the past year and reconciliation with God.
The CST recorded 4,296 antisemitic incidents in 2023 and 3,528 in 2024, the two highest numbers on record.
Violent incidents against Jewish people and synagogues abroad had heightened fears in the UK. Only this week three suspected members of Hamas were arrested in Germany for allegedly planning attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in the country.
Sarah Lynn Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, a young couple who worked at the Israeli embassy in Washington, were shot dead outside a Jewish museum in the US capital in May by a man shouting “free Palestine”.
Two petrol bombs were thrown at a synagogue in Berlin in October 2023. In the French city of La Grande-Motte, a car believed to contain a bottle of gas was parked and set on fire last August outside a synagogue; the doors of the building were burnt.
There were arson attacks on synagogues in Vienna and Armenia in November 2023, in Oldenburg in Germany in April 2024, in Rouen in France in May 2024, in Athens in June 2024 and in Melbourne last December.
Synagogues and a children’s nursery in Golders Green, an area of north London with a large Jewish population, were smeared with faeces last month. There have also been several incidents of Nazi imagery and swastikas being painted on synagogues around the world.
The article has different headlines depending on at what level you view it. I am using the one that originally caught my eye.
If you don’t live in a place where you can carry a 10mm, move to a place where you can.
The words “muslim”, “islam”, and “jihad”, do not appear in this article
Same thing they said in Nuremberg. Stay indoors and no Jewish crowds.
EVIL!!
It’s like Dearborn
Exactly.
Or is that a problem in the liturgy?
Jews don’t have much choice the Starmer Troopers are busy rounding up social media posters no time to help them.
They need to tell Jews to RECONSIDER their political choices.
Bet Trump offers asylum to British Jews.
Not to say if it’s good or bad, but it’s likely he will.
In the US, we’re armed, don’t need to hide.
This is unfortunate, but there are opinion polls indicating that self-identified Jewish voters in the UK mostly support Labour and largely reject Farage’s Reform party which is the only party trying to do anything about unrestrained Muslim immigration. Only 6% of self-identified Jews support Reform, comparted to 15-20% of Brits in general. In short, when you vote for the open-borders left, don’t come crying when it bites you in the ass.
There’s a YouTube video of a Muslim protest march on a London street. A Jewish man (wearing a yarmulke) happened to be standing on the sidewalk.
He was approached by some British cops. To protect him? No. The cops told the Jewish man to leave the area because his presence might upset the Muslim marchers.
Here’s the video:
https://youtu.be/mZBHgRRi8CM?si=1XBNQWLBbCKy_GhY
I’m considering going to SeaTac airport to pick up a friend on October 7th (Tuesday) outfitted with:
My IDF T-shirt
My IDF Yarmulke (Kippah)
My big silver Magen David (Jewish Star) necklace
A big Israeli flag strapped to the back of my new Tacoma truck
My 9mm Sig legally concealed carry
Might get noticed.
No mention of Islam or Muslims, the main sources of hostility to Jews. We all know it.
Sorry, Winnie, but it looks increasingly as if those "few" made their sacrifices in vain.
How long before they start rounding them up and putting them in crematoriums.
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