"‘What Israel is doing is anti-Jewish’: UK scholar on Manchester synagogue attack

Haim Bresheeth, a prominent Israeli retired scholar living in the United Kingdom, has drawn a link between Israel’s war on Gaza and the Manchester synagogue attack.

“What Israel is doing is not Jewish – it’s anti-Jewish – and we have warned time and again that these activities will bring a rise in anti-Semitic hatred,” Bresheeth told Al Jazeera.

As we’ve been reporting, two men were killed on Thursday when a British man of Syrian descent rammed a vehicle into pedestrians and stabbed people outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in what police have called a “terrorist” incident.

Bresheeth, founder of the UK-based advocacy group Jewish Network for Palestine, said people who are already “marginally unbalanced” may see footage of Israel’s “very disturbing war crimes and start terror activities”.

He called on Jews and allies to stand against Israel and against anti-Semitism.

“We are asking time and again for Jewish communities to stand with the Palestinians against genocide,” Bresheeth said. “Jews supporting genocide? Jews doing genocide? This is sick, this is mad. We shouldn’t be doing this.”"

https://aje.io/6liwt3?update=4005846

#israel #antijewish #antisemitism #warcrimes #genocide #gaza

"‘What Israel is doing is anti-Jewish’: UK scholar on Manchester synagogue attack

Haim Bresheeth, a prominent Israeli retired scholar living in the United Kingdom, has drawn a link between Israel’s war on Gaza and the Manchester synagogue attack.

“What Israel is doing is not Jewish – it’s anti-Jewish – and we have warned time and again that these activities will bring a rise in anti-Semitic hatred,” Bresheeth told Al Jazeera.

As we’ve been reporting, two men were killed on Thursday when a British man of Syrian descent rammed a vehicle into pedestrians and stabbed people outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in what police have called a “terrorist” incident.

Bresheeth, founder of the UK-based advocacy group Jewish Network for Palestine, said people who are already “marginally unbalanced” may see footage of Israel’s “very disturbing war crimes and start terror activities”.

He called on Jews and allies to stand against Israel and against anti-Semitism.

“We are asking time and again for Jewish communities to stand with the Palestinians against genocide,” Bresheeth said. “Jews supporting genocide? Jews doing genocide? This is sick, this is mad. We shouldn’t be doing this.”"

https://aje.io/6liwt3?update=4005846

#israel #antijewish #antisemitism #warcrimes #genocide #gaza

Searchlight: **A knife at the heart of Manchester**

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/a-knife-at-the-heart-of-manchester/

Yesterday came news of a horrendous and violent attack here in Manchester. The Heaton Park Synagogue, the target for a cowardly and appalling incident featuring a knife, a possible bomb, and a car driven into the premises. It makes me feel physically sick. As the fog of confusion lifted somewhat, it became clear that this […]

#News #Antisemitism

Attacking those of the Jewish faith for the crimes of the Government of Israel is as wrong as the Government of Israel treating all Palestinian citizens as if they were members of Hamas. #TwoAssholesDontMakeTheCauseRighteous #Manchester #Antisemitism

I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead

2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-respond-incident-outside-synagogue-manchester-2025-10-02/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Attacking those of the Jewish faith for the crimes of the Government of Israel is as wrong as the Government of Israel treating all Palestinian citizens as if they were members of Hamas. #TwoAssholesDontMakeTheCauseRighteous #Manchester #Antisemitism

If you follow me, you probably don't need any further evidence that the once aptly named "Anti-Defamation League" has completely transformed into the "Genocide and Fascism Apologist League", but just in case, here it is:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anti-defamation-league-removes-extremism-research
#ADL #ElonMusk #antisemitism #politics #Israel #Zionism

I am starting to blame #Netanyahu for these types of attacks. His government has created more #antisemitism due to their #CrimesAgainstHumanity.

2 dead in attack at #UK #synagogue on #YomKippur, suspect shot dead

2 people were killed Thursday when a man drove a car into pedestrians & stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue in #England where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the #Jewish calendar, British police said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-police-respond-incident-outside-synagogue-manchester-2025-10-02/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

4 people injured,
[?] terrorist down
#antisemitism #manchester

[update]
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has told BBC Radio Manchester that “it is believed” that the attacker is dead.
However, he says this “is not confirmed” yet.
[\]

„Police were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, on Middleton Road, Crumpsall, at 9.31am by a member of the public, stating he had witnessed a car being driven towards members of the public, and one man had been stabbed.

GMP declared PLATO and a major incident at 9.37am. Shots were fired by Greater Manchester Police firearms officers at 9.38am. One man has been shot, believed to be the offender.

Paramedics arrived at the scene at 9.41am and are tending to members of the public, currently four members of the public with injuries caused by both the vehicle and stab wounds.

Members of the public are asked to avoid the area while the police continue to deal with the incident.“

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/oct/02/police-reports-stabbing-synagogue-greater-manchester-live?filterKeyEvents=false&page=with%3Ablock-68de49fb8f08f91f2eb5e0d2#block-68de49fb8f08f91f2eb5e0d2

If you follow me, you probably don't need any further evidence that the once aptly named "Anti-Defamation League" has completely transformed into the "Genocide and Fascism Apologist League", but just in case, here it is:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anti-defamation-league-removes-extremism-research
#ADL #ElonMusk #antisemitism #politics #Israel #Zionism

How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right

"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.

With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid

How Germany’s fight against anti-Semitism is empowering the far right

"Prominent #Jewish #Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein returns to his ancestral home, #Germany, to investigate how the country’s impulse never to repeat the horrendous anti-Semitism that led to the #Holocaust has resulted in the suppression of any criticism of Israel and its actions in #Gaza.

With critics of Israel being sacked, cancelled, silenced, arrested and banned from Germany, one Jewish philosopher has called this a “McCarthyism” for the 21st century. We’ll see how in today's Germany, a nation that killed most of his family but granted him citizenship in 2011, Loewenstein is told, as a Jew, what is acceptable to say about Israel. To find out why the German authorities are so committed to stifling any criticism of Israeli actions and what it means for #democracy and #humanrights in the country, he will meet those being arrested and suffering job losses for criticising Israel, the people enforcing these laws and those on the far right claiming to support #Israel. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfK10unkiGw
#farright #extremeright #fascism #antisemitism #zionism #antimuslism #racism #StateRepression
@palestine @israel @EndIsraeliApartheid

Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.

"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."

https://firstthings.com/no-chosen-no-almost-chosen/

Liel Leibovitz is kind of a rightwing kook, and this article is no different than usual. But I'm sharing it for this paragraph here where he says something interesting and worthwhile. The rest of the essay is dumb AF.

"#AntiSemitism works best when #Jews are treated as both anti-matter and matter: They’re the Marxist fiends who plot communist uprisings and also the capitalist pigs who own all the factories; they’re effeminate little creeps who can never achieve true and noble masculinity and also libidinous sexual predators who seduce the women and corrupt the young; they’re pathetic because they’re so powerless and dangerous because they’re all-powerful. These blatant contradictions aren’t a bug—they’re a feature, allowing the haters to cast the Jews as the ultimate shapeshifting villain. It’s a convenient illusion, excusing the Jew-haters from the hard task of fighting their real, and far more formidable, enemies."

https://firstthings.com/no-chosen-no-almost-chosen/

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

@dukepaaron

We are really afraid of Trump's antisemitic attacks on academia, such as the recent targeting of Jewish academics who criticize Israel (i.e. UC Berkeley's Judith Butler, Columbia's Katherine Franke). Trump's latest rants against Soros (threatening to jail him) confirm that we are not safe in this country. #antisemitism

@dukepaaron

We are really afraid of Trump's antisemitic attacks on academia, such as the recent targeting of Jewish academics who criticize Israel (i.e. UC Berkeley's Judith Butler, Columbia's Katherine Franke). Trump's latest rants against Soros (threatening to jail him) confirm that we are not safe in this country. #antisemitism

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

"A strong majority of #Jewish #Americans said they are concerned about #antisemitism on #college campuses but disagree with President #Trump’s approach to combating it, a national #poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, #American #Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an “excuse” to “penalize and tax college campuses,” according to the poll released Tuesday by Ipsos in collaboration with social and political scientists at UC Berkeley and the #University of Rochester."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-16/jewish-americans-trump-poll

The antisemites in power in DC are singling out Jewish scholars at Berkeley for harassment because they are critical of Israel. This is one reason Jews do not feel secure in this country right now.

#antisemitism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/12/uc-berkeley-trump-administration-antisemitism?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other