Thursday’s incident came as the community observed Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar
Police said they had shot a man suspected in a stabbing and car-ramming that injured four people at a synagogue Thursday in the northern English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Greater Manchester Police said in a series of posts on X that a major incident was declared after a member of the public reported that they had “witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public” and that one “man had been stabbed” near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, an area known for its large Jewish community.
Mods removed my comment for saying I don’t have the emotional energy left to care about attacks on pro-genocide groups.
Not that I supported killing them, or that I endorsed this attack, but that it’s hard for me expend emotional energy caring about an in-group actively engaged in a genocide.
I also went out of my way to explain how Israel’s role in conflating Judaism with Zionism is a key reason why I feel that way.
And let me be clear: this attack was wrong and it is 100% counterproductive to bringing an end to the genocide.
I do not support or condone this violence, but I will not be guilted into having a different emotional response just because others find it more acceptable
And while I strongly feel that my own background should have no bearing on the conversation, I will point out that I was raised in a Jewish Zionist household. So please don’t tell me how I’m a self-hating Jew, anti-semitic, or otherwise racially prejudiced against myself.
With all of that out of the way, let’s take a closer look at the target of this attack:
Rabbi Daniel Walker serves as co-chair of the community and interfaith committees of the JRC and has been the Rabbi of the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation since 2008.
How does Rabbi Walkers JRC organization view the conflict? Would it shock to learn that oppose Palistinain self-determination, and do not consider the conflict to be a genocide?
This is an Orthodox Zionist organization helmed by an yeshiva educated conservatives. They are explicitly against Palestinian self-determination and who don’t express an ounce of sympathy or concern for the Palestinians being slaughtered.
For a final time, this attack was wrong. Violence is wrong. This should not be supported, celebrated, or sanctified.
But please don’t censor people who are expressing valid feelings about how they emotionally process attacks against organizations of unashamedly racial supremacists, who are actively part of the in group currently perpetrating a genocide.
This is also relevant discussion to this topic because it speaks to a larger issue facing the Jewish community and public sentiment and opinions that are only getting worse, whether they express themselves through inexcusable violence like today, or by people having tragically apathetic emotional responses to violence.
Sorry you got censored.
In time, we’ll have communities and instances that take moderation seriously and don’t remove posts just because they feel like it.
I can’t speak to the motivations for its removal.
For all I know a bunch of users reported my comment and a mod removed it accidentally because they’re overworked or tired.
I’m not trying to denigrate the work they do, just highlighting a small issue that I personally had.
And to be fair, my original comment was less articulate and more to the point, so perhaps the fault was mine for not providing the proper disclaimers about my positions regarding the rejection of violence. I thought I had, but I can accept that others may have interpreted it in ways that I did not intend.