❓WHAT HAPPENED: Reform Party leader Nigel Farage responded to a radical Islamic terror attack targeting Jews in Manchester, England, yesterday.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Reform Party leader Nigel Farage, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the governing Labour Party, and British Jews.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The attack was carried out on Thursday, October 2, in Manchester, England; Farage responded on Friday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “The scenes of Jewish people being butchered on the streets of Manchester yesterday have shocked many of us deeply to the core.” – Nigel Farage
🎯IMPACT: The Jewish community in Britain is now deeply fearful, with Farage stressing concerns about societal breakdown in the United Kingdom.
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage has responded to the radical Islamic terror attack targeting Jews at a synagogue in Manchester on October 2, perpetrated by Syrian immigrant Jihad al-Shamie. “The scenes of Jewish people being butchered on the streets of Manchester yesterday have shocked many of us deeply to the core,” he said, extending condolences on behalf of his party—but warned that the situation is even worse than it first appears.
“Within hours of this horrific incident, we saw pro-Palestinian flags on the streets in London, Glasgow, and elsewhere, with people demonstrating in what were not planned protests. The truth is, they weren’t demonstrating—they were celebrating,” he said, adding: “I can’t imagine we’ve ever seen such vile scenes on our streets, certainly not in my lifetime.”
Farage criticized the governing Labour Party and senior party figures such as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, noting that they “emboldened these people by recognizing ‘Palestine’ two weeks ago.”
Notably, a major pro-Palestinian march is still planned in London this weekend, despite calls for it to be canceled or postponed, with Farage describing it as a “hate march.”
“[W]e’re a country that allows peaceful protest, but not one that permits the celebration of murder,” he said, confessing: “I must admit, as I speak to you today, I am more worried about the state of broken Britain than ever before.”
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