❓WHAT HAPPENED: The United Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, was heckled at a vigil for victims of a jihadist terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, England.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and mourners.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The vigil took place in Manchester, following the attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue on Thursday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “You have blood on your hands,” said one heckler.
🎯IMPACT: The deadly synagogue attack has drawn intense criticism of the Labour government and its failure to curb mass migration and the growth of radical Islam.
David Lammy, the United Kingdom’s Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, encountered a hostile reception at a vigil held for the victims of the recent synagogue attack in Manchester. Mourners expressed their anger with the Labour government’s lack of action on mass immigration and increasing Islamic radicalism, shouting phrases such as “Shame on you,” and “You have blood on your hands,” and “Go to Palestine” at Lammy.
The vigil took place a day after the deadly attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, which resulted in the deaths of Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, and left three others seriously injured. The attack occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, and was perpetrated by Syrian immigrant Jihad al-Shamie.
‘Shame on you!’
BREAKING: Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy shouted at by the crowd in attendance at the vigil for the attack on a Synangogue in Manchester. pic.twitter.com/NoFUk8UaVW
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Lammy tried to emphasize a need for unity, stating, “We must stand in grief, in solidarity, and in defiance.” However, he has not previously been a unifying politician, emphasizing his black racial background, defending a comparison he made between Brexit supporters and Nazis as “[not] strong enough,” and describing the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement as a “cult of white supremacists.”
Reform Party leader Nigel Farage criticized the governing Labour Party and senior party figures such as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood in the wake of the Manchester attack, noting that they “emboldened these people by recognizing ‘Palestine’ two weeks ago.”
“I must admit, as I speak to you today, I am more worried about the state of broken Britain than ever before,” he said.
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