Thanks. Not really a special day for me as I went to the football the night before and did none of the things a nice Jewish boy is meant to do on the holiest night/day of the year. One of the few arguments I had with my mum growing up was over going to QPR on the Jewish new year which turned out to be a good decision as we beat Leicester 3-2 from 2-0 down.
But as far as I know the people I know in that part of Manchester either weren’t there at the time or are ok which is the main thing. I’m at a wedding at the weekend where half the crowd will be Mancs so expect quite a few will have been there.
But back to the point, I don’t think this element in this country can be de-radicalised. They can be monitored if known (this guy wasn’t, and we can’t know how many aren’t) but the simple fact is there is a minority of Muslims brought up to despise Jews and often The West. I don’t doubt the perfectly normal majority of Muslims detest them for the impact they have on their own lives. There’s also a growing minority of radical, West-hating non-religious people but they’re mostly less serious and while there’s an antisemitism problem in that group it’s not one that would go to the lengths seen yesterday.
I woke up angry at those who have let this happen and have either stood by when they could have helped or actively encouraged antisemitism to fester. Bonus points for those of them with their copy and paste faux-outrage tweets.
I doubt it’ll be too long before someone tries something similar whether it be a synagogue, school, hospital or whatever. The police reacted admirably and have stopped similar happening entirely in the recent past but you only need 1 in 100 to slip through the net.