"‘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.”"
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