The government and the police of the United Kingdom penetrated the organizers on a planned anti-Israel protest to cancel the event after this week’s deadly synagogue attack, saying that demonstrators “should respect the grief of British Jews”.
“I know that planned protests in the weekend, just a few days before the birthday of the attacks of 7 October, as well as in the shadow of the Manchester attack, will cause suffering,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in an opinion piece for The Jewish chronicle. He called on the protest organizers to reconsider and ‘respect’ the grief of British Jews this week.
“This is a moment of mourning. It is not time to heat tension and cause further pain,” Starmer added.
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British Prime Minister Kier Starmer insisted on Anti-Israël demonstrators to reconsider their demonstration planned for Saturday after the deadly Yom Kippur Synagogue attack in Manchester. (James Manning/Pool via Reuters; Jack Taylor/Reuters)
Anti-Israeli demonstrators in the UK continued their demonstration and ignored supplications of the government and the police to cancel the event after this week’s deadly synagogue attack.
London Metropolitan Police, often the one mentioned, not only urged organizers to trace the protest to cancel or postpone, but also sent a warning that there would be arrests.
“By deliberately choosing to encourage mass legislation on this scale, we defend our juries valuable resources away from the London communities at a time they are most needed,” said Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley with commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in a statement.
Rowley said that if Defend our juries Have not paid attention to warnings to postpone or cancel the protest, the group must be aware that its activities would be confronted with the reaction of the police. He said that with “the support of forces in the United Kingdom would call” to manage the protest if necessary.
The police arrest an activist on Trafalgar Square for the defendation of the Palestine promotion on October 4, 2025 in London, England. (Guy Smallman/Getty images)
Hundreds of anti-Israeli demonstrators who have been arrested in London for the supporting group forbidden under the fight against terrorism
Defend our juries Remained challenging and refused to cancel the protest. While demonstrators gathered on Saturday at the iconic Trafalgar Square in London, they held plates with the text: “I am against genocide. I support Palestine Action.”
Parliament in the UK Increased to prohibit Palestine campaign in July, and said that the “orchestration and and action of the group of aggressive and intimidating attacks” has adopted the thresholds in the Terrorism ACT 2000.
However, defend our jury’s, the organization behind Saturday’s protest, requires that the prohibition must be lifted. Defend our jurys that Palestinian action was labeled as a terror group “for trying to stop crimes against humanity and to expose the complicity of the British government in genocide.”
The scene on Trafalgar Square on Saturday as “print” and said that officers have made various arrests in the area. The police have noted on X That “quite a few people in the crowd seem to observe/support, but do not wear places themselves.”
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The police remove demonstrators who participate in a demonstration organized by defending our juries to support Palestina action in Trafalgar Square, London, on October 4, 2025. (Maja Smiejkowska/PA images via Getty Images)
On Thursday, while Jews marked the holiest day on their calendar, Yom Kippur, an attacker focused on worshipers in Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. The attack was injured two dead and four others.
Melvin Cravitz, 66, and Adrian Daulby, 53, were killed when the 35-year-old British burger Jihad Al Shamie, who was born in Syria, plowed his car in pedestrians and stabbed at least one other victim. The British police shot and killed Shamie on the spot. Officials said on Friday that it seemed that one of the victims was accidentally shot when the police tried to subdue the attacker.
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Members of the Jewish community comfort each other near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, in Crumpsall, Manchester, England, on Thursday 2 October 2025, after the police reported that two people were being killed. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
Gideon Falter, Chief Executive of campaign against anti -Semitism, denied the attack and criticized the lack of action by government officials and police before the deadly incident.
“This is the Intifada Globalized. What do you think it was?” Globalizing the Intifada “means Jews on the ground in a puddle of blood, death outside a synagogue on the holiest day of the Jewish year,” Falter said inside Posted a video on X. “Where are our institutions that must ensure that this healthy, tolerant, decent place is the Great -Britain that we know and what we love?”
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The families of Cravitz and Daulby have released a tribute to their deceased loved ones.
“Melvin would do anything to help someone. He was so friendly, caring and always wanted to chat and get to know people. He was dedicated to his wife, family and loved his food. He will be seriously missed by his wife, family, friends and community,” ” Said the Cravitz family.
“Adrian Daulby was a hero and tragically lost his life in the act of courage to save others. He was a beloved brother, loved his four nieces and a cousin and a beloved cousin. The family is shocked by the tragic, sudden death of such a beautiful, down-to-orarth man,” ” Said the family of daulby.
The police said that Daulby was one of the worshipers who prevented Shamie from entering the synagogue.
