Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain Friday for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur.
Standing behind the police cordon that still surrounds the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in the city’s Crumpsall neighborhood, the mourners said they felt forgotten by a society that has allowed antisemitism in the UK to grow unchallenged over the last two years.
Politicians and other leaders have failed to reject anti-Jewish speech or protect Jews from hate crimes, they said.
The UK was lost years ago
ReplyDeleteThis is a country where 30 people are arrested daily for social media posts that the police receive complaints about as "hate speech", yet Muslims can march through the streets shouting "Death to Israel! Death to the Jews!" and the police to stand guard to ensure no one tries to stop them. Where a popular comedy writer is arrested at the airport for "hate speech" posts but Muslim rape gangs operate with impunity in multiple cities.
The Jews are thinking in an obsolete fashion.
Before 1948, when things like this happened, the Jewish community had two choices - grin and bear it or move. Often it was the former because, let's face it, where else was really better? But now there is a choice - Israel. Get out now before the government brings in a law that penalizes anyone making aliyah with a 100% exit tax.