Manchester England: Two Killed, Three Hospitalized 

Last week, in Manchester, England, a man named Jihad al-Shamie attacked people outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Two were killed. Another three were hospitalized.

Writing about the incident in The Free Press, the British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore said this:

This was the inevitable result of two wild years of anti-Jewish racism and radicalism, dehumanizing anti-Jewish slogans and images, blood libels, support for terror, calls to “globalize the intifada” and “decolonize Israel now,” unleashed on the streets and in the media.

These were barely policed by policemen who stood by; nor by politicians who swung between crowd-pleasing Manichaean hyperbole and sensible, balanced reassurance; nor by the television anchors who disgraced the noble vocation of journalism with irresponsible exaggerations and mistakes that were never corrected; nor by the National Health Service doctors openly keening to kill Jews who are still working in hospitals, despite condemnations from Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting.

This is a country where British citizens are arrested for praying quietly in front of an abortion clinic or a woman standing quietly with a sign in front of a hospital. And where people are thrown in jail for criticizing ten years of unpoliced rape of young British girls by Pakistani Muslim men, and others are put in jail for protesting the murders of innocent children.

And get this: When he carried out the attack, al-Shamie was on bail for an alleged rape.

The Free Press continues:

So today we want to explain how we arrived here and where Britain might go next.

We begin with an eyewitness account of the atrocity, courtesy of a team of reporters at The Mill, a start-up local newspaper in Manchester. They describe the awful events that made this Yom Kippur “the darkest of days” for the city’s 300-year-old Jewish community. Read their report here.

This attack did not happen in a vacuum. It happened, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali, because Britain has been subverted. By that she means that the country has been transformed from within. “To look at Britain today is to see subversion in action,” she writes. “The lesson of Manchester is stark. When we appease, the subversion grows. And with it comes terror.” Why has Britain allowed this to happen? And what can be done to fix it? Read her essay here to find out.

Simon Sebag Montefiore says that the intifada has come to the UK. And the scale of the problem was made clear not just by the terror attack yesterday morning, but also by what he calls the “bloodthirsty fiestas” that followed in the streets of London and Manchester. Britain, he writes, “tossed helplessly on a storm partly of its own making.” Can its leaders steady the ship?