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Manchester’s Yom Kippur terror attack highlights that Britain failed its Jewish community
Mackenzie France
October 3, 2025

The crisis of antisemitism in Britain has reached a devastating new low. British Jews have been attacked on the holiest day of their religious calendar. For Jews and their allies in Britain, this attack hardly comes as a surprise. Many of those reacting with shock to these antisemitic murders do not realise that they represent the latest in a string of incidents where British Jews have been attacked and intimidated. In schools, hospitals, and now even synagogues, Britain has thoroughly failed to protect its Jewish community. It is time for all of us outside the Jewish community to reckon with this failure and urge our leaders to take antisemitism seriously. Many in the Jewish community have taken time after this heinous attack to stress that it did not come from out of the blue. READ MORE

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