A doctor has claimed the decision to temporarily restrict access to A&E services in Manchester to prioritise victims from the Manchester synagogue attack is evidence of “exceptionalism for Jews”.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a trauma and orthopaedics doctor of British-Palestinian descent, also shared posts on her social media that suggested the media’s focus on the terror attack was an example of “Jewish supremacism”.
Yesterday’s attack outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, which was rapidly declared a terrorist incident by the police, had all the outward signs of a jihadi attack. The perpetrator, Jihad Al-Shamie, rammed a vehicle into pedestrians before launching a marauding knife rampage. Two worshippers were killed, and three others were seriously injured, though the picture has now been complicated by reports that one of the victims died after being accidentally shot by armed police. Al-Shamie was wearing a fake suicide belt and very likely intended to die in the attack, knowing that the police wouldn’t take any chances once they saw it. As it happened, he was right.
Muslims vandalized the Uncommon Church in Euless TX with obscene anti-Israel graffiti. Leftists and the Islamist group CAIR quickly came to their defense, complaining that vandalizing churches is really protected by the First Amendment.
After Raunaq Alam, Afsheen Khan and Julia Venzor vandalized the church, the Dallas Observer claimed that prosecuting them “erodes the First Amendment rights of protesters and critics of the nation of Israel.”
WTF? @fancypants_s https://t.co/430X2hn0Pn
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) October 3, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Because of the swirling cross-currents of Middle Eastern affairs and the tumultuous state of international relations with two long-standing wars raging in Europe and the Middle East, it is easy not to notice the great achievement of the comprehensive Gaza peace plan now under intense consideration by the parties. Finally, and chiefly by the efforts of the much- reviled president of the United States, all of the powers, and all of the principal Muslim countries except the defeated and despised, belligerent, pseudo-theocracy of Iran, have been united on a plan that unambiguously recognizes the right of Israel to exist and flourish as a Jewish state, and requires the complete demilitarization of Gaza and the expulsion from any political influence of the Hamas terrorist organization.
I do not think lasting peace is possible in the ME.
At least 355 people have been arrested in central London during protests in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action the Metropolitan Police has said.
Organisers Defend Our Juries said around 1,000 took part in demonstrations backing Palestine Action – a group which was proscribed by the government in July making it illegal to show any support or affiliation to them.
Demonstrations went ahead despite calls from ministers and police who called for protests to be postponed following Thursday’s deadly synagogue attack in Manchester.
UK pro-Palestinian protests went ahead Saturday despite a plea from Prime Minister Keir Starmer, two days after a deadly car-ramming and knife attack on a synagogue.
➡️ https://t.co/rYScjjvZOn pic.twitter.com/S4zgJdtEq2— AFP News Agency (@AFP) October 4, 2025
People in Gaza have reacted with shock after US President Donald Trump appeared to welcome Hamas’s response to his peace plan for the territory.
Hundreds of Palestinians flooded my social media accounts and messaging apps with questions like: “Has the war ended?” and “Is this a dream or reality?”
The pace of developments overnight has left many struggling to grasp what comes next.
The movement’s carefully crafted statement – thought to have been drafted with the help of mediators – stopped short of outright rejection and instead offered a qualified “yes”
A group of current and former Toronto Metropolitan University law students who signed a controversial letter expressing unequivocal support for Palestinians after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians has filed a lawsuit against the university.
The statement of claim, which has not been tested in court, alleges TMU defamed the signatories by publicly condemning the letter as antisemitic and intolerant.
As I sit in synagogue this Yom Kippur, the holiest day in our calendar, my heart is heavy with fear and sadness. The sanctuary, usually a place of solace and reflection, now feels like a fragile bubble in a world increasingly hostile to Jews. Today, once again, that bubble was violently pierced.
There are no longer gray areas in the implied intent of major Western nations, such as France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, the UK, Australia and others, to isolate or destroy Israel.
US President Donald Trump has given Hamas a deadline to accept a US peace plan for Gaza or face “all hell”.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Friday that an agreement must be reached by 18:00 Washington time (22:00 GMT) on Sunday.
The plan proposes an immediate end to fighting and the release within 72 hours of 20 living Israeli hostages held by Hamas – as well as the remains of hostages thought to be dead – in exchange for hundreds of detained Gazans.
BREAKING: Trump puts Hamas on notice, giving terror group until Sunday at 6pm ET to accept Gaza peace deal or else 'all HELL' will break out pic.twitter.com/DLAnZLk4ZP
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 3, 2025
One of the victims killed at the Manchester synagogue attack appears to have been shot dead by armed police officers.
In a statement, the Greater Manchester police chief constable, Sir Stephen Watson, said the Home Office pathologist had provisionally determined that the man had died of a gunshot wound.
The suspect, Jihad al-Shamie, did not have a firearm and the only shots fired were by the police officers at the scene. It is believed that the victim was among those behind the synagogue door seeking to prevent the attacker from gaining entry.
Update – British police may have shot 2 of the Manchester synagogue attack victims, one fatally, officials say
Was the “officer” Muslim by chance?
A synagogue in Manchester. Two dead at the hands of a suspected terrorist.
The response from Labour’s mayors, Burnham and Khan? Let the pro-Palestine marches fill the streets of both cities on the very same day.
While one community is in mourning, another is committing acts of… pic.twitter.com/Fd0mH9nGHK
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) October 2, 2025
J’accuse: Britain’s political and cultural establishment has blood on its hands over the Manchester synagogue Yom Kippur attack pic.twitter.com/7QBGsQx3Pn
— Melanie Phillips (@MelanieLatest) October 2, 2025
OTTAWA — Israel’s envoy to Canada says dialogue between his government and Ottawa has “deteriorated” since Prime Minister Mark Carney took office — and suggests his “hard line” on Gaza explains why Carney still hasn’t spoken by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Since the government of Carney came into place, the level of dialogue between the two countries slowly but surely deteriorated,” Israel Ambassador Iddo Moed told The Canadian Press on Monday.
The knife-wielding terrorist accused of killing two people outside a UK synagogue on Thursday is believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, officials announced.
Al-Shamie allegedly carried out the carnage at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Manchester, which was celebrating Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
A terror attack on a synagogue. Hours later, Manchester Police are "facilitating" a pro-Palestine march in the same city. The authorities haven't just lost the plot; they've surrendered it. pic.twitter.com/9ipnoIZJzT
— Darren Grimes (@darrengrimes_) October 2, 2025
“Zionism is a crime. Shut it down for Palestine”
This is tonight – HOURS after the terrorist attack on a Zionist synagogue in Manchester. This was allowed to happen.
It's also how I know the UK doesn't give a shit about Jewish lives at all.
— ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) October 2, 2025
The BBC understands that mediators have made contact with the head of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, who indicated he does not agree to new US ceasefire plan.
Izz al-Din al-Haddad is thought to believe the plan was designed to finish Hamas, whether the group accepts it or not, and so is determined to fight on.
US President Donald Trump’s 20-point framework to end the war – which has already been accepted by Israel – stipulates that Hamas disarm and have no future role in governing Gaza.
I’m shocked.
Israel’s navy intercepted the large flotilla attempting to break its maritime blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, after the military issued a final warning for the pro-Palestinian fleet to change course.
The Israeli Navy operation, which came as the country marked Yom Kippur, began on Wednesday evening and continued overnight and into Thursday.
Greta Thunberg’s Falestine Flotilla has landed on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Because nothing says “Human Rights” like dancing on a Hamas funded party boat for a month and then forcing fasting Israelis to break their indigenous holy day to deal with you and your bullshit. pic.twitter.com/L9l0gRhpVH
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) October 1, 2025
The flotilla participants are taken into custody at the port of Ashdod and from there are deported from Israel. The Foreign Ministry publishes photos of them and writes: "The passengers are healthy and safe."
You can see Greta Thunberg and Thiago Avila, organizers of the… pic.twitter.com/dC1JiHSrzS
— Iris (@streetwize) October 2, 2025
