The British synagogue attack against Yom Kippur Kills 2, raises fears of anti -Semitism

The persistent threat of anti -Semitism was highlighted Thursday after at least two people were killed in a British synagogue attack. The violence took place while millions of Jews marked Yom Kippur, the most holy day of their faith, and while world efforts continued to release 46 Israeli hostages held by Hamas.

The details of the aggressor, who attacked the Heaton Park Hebrew congregation in the northeast of Manchester in England, making his car smash before stabbing at least one person, remain unknown.

British police pulled and killed the suspect and the authorities declared the attack on a terrorist incident.

“Attacks like that today in the United Kingdom unfortunately normalize,” Fox News Digital Jonathan Ruhe, director of foreign policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America told Fox News.

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The Rabbi Daniel Walker, third on the left, stands with armed police outside the synagogue of the Heaton Park Hebrew congregation in Manchester on October 2, 2025, after the attack. (Paul Currie / AFP via Getty Images)

The Community Security Trust (CST), Which Tracks Antisemitic Attacks in the UK, Found that “Incidents” Against the Jewish Community Across Brittically Escalated Following The Hamas Attacks On Israel On Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent war in the Gaza Strip 4,103 events recorded that year – A summit of all time.

In October 2023 alone, 1,330 cases of anti -Semitism were reported by the CST, which includes attacks, damage or profanations, threats and abusive behavior against Jews.

The incidents reported in November and December of the same year, with 931 and 477 incidents respectively, made these months the second and fourth month for anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom recorded by the group.

2024 also saw 3,528 additional incidents reported – more than a double of the 1,652 incidents reported the year preceding the October 7 attacks in Hamas against Israel.

CST noted that the sharp increase in attacks was linked to ideologically or politically motivated feelings linked to the current conflict in the Gaza Strip.

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People walk with signs showing photos of Israeli hostages while British Jewish groups mark the first anniversary of the attacks on October 7, 2024 in Manchester, England. (Christopher Furlong / Getty Images)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to X to offer his condolences to the victims of the attack and said: “Israel cried the Jewish community in the United Kingdom after the Barbaric terrorist attack in Manchester.

“As I warned the UN: weakness in the face of terrorism no longer brings terrorism. Only strength and unity can defeat it,” he added.

While the reason behind Thursday’s attack remains unknown, Ruhe argued that the failure of European leaders to use “their diplomatic weight to support a viable post-Hamas future for Gazans” and instead of “punishing” Israel contributed to the increase in anti-Semitic feeling.

The attack on Manchester’s synagogue comes just two weeks after the United Kingdom and other European leaders agreed to recognize a Palestinian state after refusing to do so.

But anti-Semitism is also increasing in the United States, which, according to Ruhe, is perhaps even more about the history of Europe to fight against the problem.

Jewish targeted attacks in the United Kingdom have increased by 282% in the past decade, according to data collected by the CST. But in the United States, anti-Semitic attacks jumped 893% in the same period of 10 years, according to the Anti-Diffamation LeagueWith some 9,354 incidents reported last year.

“The rise in open and violent anti-Semitism in America is more recent than in a large part of Europe, but perhaps all the more worrying because of this,” said Ruhe. “Part of the solution is that the colleges close the” protests “of the far left campus which intend to intimidate the Jews and anyone who calls politicians at the end of the existence of Israel.

“It was very revealing that these” demonstrators “use militarized language as” camps “to describe their presence and their activities on the campus,” he added.

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But Ruhe stressed that anti -Semitism is an increasing concern through the extremes of the political spectrum, leading to a story on the far left and the far right.

“There is also somewhat subtle normalization of anti -Semitism in the extreme right, for example, major influencers asking if we need more context to talk about Adolf Hitler and Nazism,” said Ruhe. “There must be a more serious and clear step back from our political leaders on stories like these.”