Manchester attack

Restaurant owner sold business to purchase guns for attack on UK Jewry, court told

Inspired by ISIS, Saadoui had reportedly planned to purchase four AK-47 rifles, two handguns and 1,200 rounds of ammunition to carry out a mass shooting on Jewish targets in the city. 

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A forensic technician and police officers work at the scene after a man drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard in an attack at a synagogue where worshippers were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, according to the British police, in north Manchester, Brita
A person crouches next to floral tributes left near the Manchester synagogue, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur, in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, October 4, 2025.

Netanyahu has ‘Jewish blood on his hands’ over Manchester attack, TV star Bushra Shaikh claims

In a video statement published on X, Shaikh claimed there was a “direct link” between Israel’s “crimes” in the war on Hamas in Gaza and the “atrocity” against British Jewry.

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Jihad al-Shamie

Abuse, rape and manipulation: Second wife of Manchester synagogue terrorist speaks out

The second of three of Jihad al-Shamie's wives told British media that he emotionally abused her, lied about being unmarried and raped her.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the site of the Manchester synagogue attack, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, October 3, 2025.

Terrorism suspect related to Manchester synagogue attack rearrested in airport

The suspect was rearrested under suspicion of failing to disclose information that could have stopped the Yom Kippur terror attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

UK gov. ministers set to launch antisemitism crackdown

In the wake of the Manchester antisemitic attack, new measures are being put in place in the academic and medical fields

OCTOBER 12, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
A VIGIL, organized by the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, is held to honor victims of the synagogue attack last week. Two years after the October 7 massacre in Israel, the same hatred has claimed lives in Europe, the writer laments.

How the media's slander of Netanyahu leads to the slaughter of Diaspora Jews - opinion

The attack on Yom Kippur should surprise no one, but it should terrify us all.

OCTOBER 12, 2025ByHAYIM LEITER
JOHN OLIVER and Kate Norley attend the HBO and Max post-Emmy reception in Hollywood last year. The question that remains is whether figures like Oliver will still champion hatred when those same forces come for them, says the writer.

Appeasement in real time: Britain’s costume drama of courage - opinion

Lawful protest is a jewel in the crown of British liberty, but a protest is not a permit to menace.

OCTOBER 8, 2025ByCATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM
PEOPLE DINE at Palestine House in London. Since October 7, 2023, there has been a creeping tolerance for placards and slogans that would, not long ago, have prompted a collective inhalation of horror, the writer maintains.

From October 7 to Manchester: Jewish blood is spilled again in Europe - opinion

Antisemitism does not begin with bullets; it begins with words.

OCTOBER 8, 2025ByMOSHE KANTOR
A VIGIL, organized by the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, is held to honor victims of the synagogue attack last week. Two years after the October 7 massacre in Israel, the same hatred has claimed lives in Europe, the writer laments.

Attack at the Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur was an English pogrom - opinion

The congregation gathered in Manchester Heaton Park synagogue when the pogrom of the 2nd October began, culminating in two dead congregants.

OCTOBER 6, 2025ByNIGEL LITHMAN
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria Starmer visit the site of the Manchester synagogue attack, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, October 3, 2025.

Manchester Jews rally to remember October 7 in wake of synagogue attack

"We are not Jews with trembling knees. Stand with us!" reads the promotional poster for the event, which is expected to have an even larger turnout following the synagogue terror attack.

OCTOBER 5, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR
OCTOBER 11: Members of the Jewish community attend a vigil for the victims of the recent attacks in Israel at Central Library, St Peter's Square, on October 11, 2023 in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Nearly 500 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for supporting terror org., PM calls for sensitivity

UK PM Keir Starmer called for pro-Palestinian protesters to be sensitive to Jewish grief after the Manchester synagogue attack and ahead of the anniversary of October 7.

OCTOBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
Police officers surround a pro-Israel supporter during a protest in London in July 2025.

Three more arrested in Manchester synagogue terror attack

A man and two women aged between 18 and mid-40s were detained after the deadly Yom Kippur attack.

OCTOBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
People attend a vigil organised by the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region to honour the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack, in Manchester, Britain, October 3, 2025.

What I saw as a British rabbi after the Manchester synagogue attack punctured Yom Kippur - opinion

After attacks on Jewish shops, schools and synagogues across Europe, it felt like a matter of time before something would come to our shores in the United Kingdom.

OCTOBER 4, 2025ByRABBI MIRIAM LORIE/JTA
People gather near the scene, after a report of an incident in which a car was driven at pedestrians and a stabbing attack, near a synagogue in north Manchester, Britain, October 2, 2025.

Manchester synagogue attacker's father praised Hamas's Oct.7 attack, worked for ICRC

Faraj al-Shamie allegedly wrote that Hamas’s invasion into southern Israel in 2023 “proved beyond a shadow of a doubt” that Israel would be destroyed eventually.

OCTOBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
People walk past tents at The University of Manchester campus, as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, May 7, 2024.

Manchester terrorist Shamie was out on bail for rape, could be behind death threats to MP

Jihad al-Shamie might have also been behind the death threats sent to a Tory MP in 2012.

OCTOBER 3, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A bomb disposal technician secures evidence at the scene, after a report of an incident in which a car was driven at pedestrians and a stabbing attack outside a synagogue, in north Manchester, Britain, October 2, 2025