The slaughter at Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Yom Kippur, October 2, 2025, is a searing indictment of Labour’s cowardice.
Two Jewish worshippers were killed, three more critically injured, when a terrorist drove a car into pedestrians, leapt out with a knife, and stabbed a security guard before police ended him.
A fake suicide vest, reeking of jihadist tactics, sparked Operation Plato and a controlled detonation. Trapped inside on Judaism’s holiest day, Manchester’s 30,000 Jews — the UK’s largest community outside London — faced a nightmare.
Keir Starmer, scrambling back from Copenhagen for a COBR meeting, mumbles about “more police patrols”. King Charles calls it “heartbreaking”.
As an American of Jewish heritage, watching this outrage, I’m furious: Labour’s long-standing pandering to extremists has blood on its hands.
This wasn’t random — it’s the bitter harvest of a government that’s let antisemitism fester over many decades to appease its base.
Britain’s 280,000 Jews, a mere 0.4 per cent of the population, live in dread. They hide religious garb, shun Hebrew in public, and fear for their kids at school.
The Community Security Trust counted 3,528 antisemitic incidents in 2024, the second-worst year on record, with synagogue vandalism (223 cases), assaults (up 41 per cent), and online hate (1,240 cases) exploding after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel. The first half of 2025 added 1,521 more, a 58 per cent monthly surge, with 76 per cent linked to anti-Israel venom.
On X, the pain is palpable: “Jewish lives are worthless”, one user raged, another slamming Labour’s “open-door for terrorists”.
The Hindu Forum stands in solidarity; Ed Davey decries the “horrific” timing.
Manchester’s mayor, Andy Burnham, admits this “despicable” attack stems from unchecked extremism. Yet Labour offers empty gestures while the rot spreads from the top down.
Starmer’s government has poured fuel on the fire. Recognising Palestine while Hamas slaughters Israelis rewards terrorism, spitting in the face of Britain’s Jews.
The Medical Council letting a doctor off for inciting anti-Jewish violence? Appalling. Police standing by as pro-Hamas marches glorify terror in London? Gutless.
The BBC, propped up by taxpayers, dismisses antisemitism as a sideshow, equating it with “Islamophobia” despite no comparable Muslim massacres. Labour’s pro-Muslim tilt and porous immigration policies—welcoming extremists who preach hate—have turned Britain into a powder keg. A Manchester rabbi’s words cut deep: “We saw this coming.”
Labour’s historic tolerance of antisemitism in its ranks, chasing votes, created fertile ground for this terrorist attack on British citizens. Jews are the warning bell—when they’re unsafe, everyone is.
In America, President Donald Trump didn’t sit idly by as Antisemitism grew alarmingly under his leftist predecessors, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
On January 29, 2025, he signed Executive Order 14188, building on his 2019 order to confront the “vile wave” of antisemitism post-October 7.
Days later, on February 3, his Justice Department formed a Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, led by Senior Counsel Leo Terrell, rallying Civil Rights, Education, and Health and Human Services to stamp out hate.
“Antisemitism betrays our values,” Terrell vowed, targeting schools and campuses where Jewish students face daily threats.
Every agency had 60 days to detail all legal tools—civil and criminal—to crush antisemitism, auditing civil rights complaints and court cases. Trump ordered his Attorney General to prosecute “threats, vandalism, and violence” against Jews with full force.
Investigations hit 60 campuses, securing $200 million for Jewish safety at schools like Columbia. Visas for Hamas supporters? Revoked fast, with universities now tracking extremist students under immigration laws. “We’ll find and deport you,” Trump warned, cutting campus assaults 20 per cent despite 9,354 incidents in 2024.
His Abraham Accords, uniting Israel with Arab nations, choked off extremist lifelines. Jewish leaders call him their “fiercest ally” in these dark times, with record Jewish support in 2020 and beyond.
Labour’s response? A pitiful £18million for CST grants when synagogues need bunkers. Starmer’s promises ring hollow while hate preachers roam free, and only 10 per cent of hate crimes see justice.
Britain, take Trump’s lead—not blindly, but boldly. You’ve adopted the IHRA antisemitism definition; enforce it in schools and universities, like Trump’s civil rights crackdowns, to stop harassment posing as “protest” Overhaul Prevent with a dedicated antisemitism squad, mirroring
Trump’s multi-agency task force, to hunt threats, not just monitor them. Pump £50 million into CST for armed guards at every Jewish site—patrols didn’t save those worshippers.
Tighten visa laws to deport terror cheerleaders, as Trump does, without targeting communities; pair it with interfaith efforts to unite Muslims and Jews against hate.
Starmer’s COBR should forge a “Manchester Protocol”: a cross-party pledge for ironclad security, Terrorism Act prosecutions, and an end to Labour’s terrorist-coddling.
Critics will scream “free speech” or “Islamophobia”. Rubbish. This targets violence—cars crashing into worshippers, knives at throats—not opinions.
Your ECHR laws support it, as U.S. courts backed Trump’s order.
Ordinary Britons aren’t antisemitic; they’re sick of Labour’s appeasement. X posts roar: “No more terrorists welcome!” The Board of Deputies demands “real action”. Trump’s probes, deportations, and diplomatic wins prove what guts can do.
Labour’s failures have left Jews bleeding. Britain, match Trump’s resolve. Honour the fallen with action, not another candlelit vigil.
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