UK Police Say They Foiled Attack Plot on Manchester's Jewish Community

UK Police Say They Foiled Attack Plot on Manchester's Jewish Community

the Guardian·22 September 2026

British counter-terrorism police arrested two men in their 30s on the eve of Yom Kippur and say they disrupted a months-long plot to attack Jewish communities in Manchester. The announcement comes almost exactly a year after an Islamist-linked attack killed two people at a Manchester synagogue on the same holy day, with investigators still working to confirm a motive as further High Holy Days approach. The renewed targeting of a Jewish community during its most sacred festival period reflects a persistent pattern of hostility toward Jewish people that Scripture repeatedly anticipates and warns against.