A Syrian-born man named Jihad staged a terror attack at a Manchester synagogue. Two were killed and three injured. In response, the pro-Palestinian contingent staged a protest outside Prime Minister Keir Starmer's 10 Downing Street home in London.
The large crowd was waving Palestinian flags and signs about Gaza while police tried to prevent the chaos from becoming violent. LBC reported that many people were arrested during the demonstration and that officers were trying to move the crowd down Whitehall, away from the residence.
Additional footage showed a rowdy scene of protesters cheering, with the sounds of banging drums. "The people united will never be defeated," they chanted, waving keffiyehs in apparent jubilation over the attack carried out by Syrian-born Jihad Al-Shamie. Al-Shamie was brought to the UK as a child and later attained citizenship.
Other protesters shouted through a megaphone calling for the "rape" of the daughters and mothers of Israelis and Jews. The protester claimed this was to "send a message."
Jack Hadfield shared footage, showing protesters chanting "We are the people, we won’t be silenced, stop the fascists now now now." Others in the group blocked Parliament Square.
On Liverpool Street, too, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered to speak out in favor of Hamas and Palestinians after the Islamic terror attack on their Jewish countrymen in Manchester.
This response to an attack on Jews mirrors those that sprang up across the West following the Hamas terror attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. In response to the massacre of 1,200 in Israel, many protesters took to the streets to essentially praise Hamas and to encourage Israel to leave Gaza—they'd left in 2005.
Attacks on Jews are routinely celebrated in Western nations, even in those nations that have already given their allegiance to a Palestinian state, as the UK has. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in September that the UK would recognize a Palestinian state.
However, protesters chanted, "Keir Starmer shame on you, your hands are bloody too."
And many arrests were made.
The United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, has been attempting to bring a ceasefire or even a cessation of hostilities to the region, but Hamas leaders routinely decline to accept any terms.
Hamas, and those who protest globally on their behalf, call for the eradication of Israel.
