{"id":475058,"date":"2025-10-05T04:16:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475058\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T04:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T04:16:32","slug":"pro-palestine-rally-held-in-manchester-days-after-synagogue-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/475058\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine rally held in Manchester days after synagogue terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to 100 people gatheredThe rally in Manchester(Image: Joel Goodman)<\/p>\n

A pro-Palestine rally was held in Manchester city centre today, Saturday, after the terrorist attack at a synagogue in Crumpsall.<\/p>\n

Crowds were pictured gathering outside Manchester Cathedral in the rain ahead of a planned march. Supporters grew to around 100 before speeches began outside.<\/p>\n

The first speaker told those gathered not to engage with the media. A second spoke of those who have lost their lives in the Gaza conflict.<\/p>\n

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As a third speaker began, counter-protesters approached, with one holding a Union flag. Police officers quickly intervened to get between the two sides.<\/p>\n

Pro-Palestine marches – of far more than 100 – have been held in Manchester on Saturdays for many months now, but the organisers of today’s protest faced calls to postpone in the wake of the terrorist atrocity on Thursday – Yom Kippur – at Heaton Park<\/a> synagogue on Middleton<\/a> Road in Crumpsall.<\/p>\n

It’s thought that, and the rain, led to smaller numbers in Manchester on Saturday.<\/p>\n

At St Peter’s Square, where Saturday’s protest was due to conclude, a smaller group gathered, with photographs of casualties in Gaza laid out on the floor.<\/p>\n

The crowds in Manchester(Image: Joel Goodman)<\/p>\n

Two men – 53-year-old Adrian Daulby and 66-year-old Melvin Cravitz, both from Crumpsall – died after terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, launched a knife and car attack at the synagogue. Others were injured.<\/p>\n

Al-Shamie was shot dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

After a vigil for the victims was held at the scene on Friday evening, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police<\/a>, Sir Stephen Watson, and Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, called for organisers of protest marches in Manchester and London to reconsider in the wake of the attack.<\/p>\n

The PM urged groups behind the demonstrations and attendees to ‘respect the grief of British Jews’ as he said demonstrations could cause further pain to mourners.<\/p>\n

But a protest in central London, campaigning against the proscription of Palestine Action, will go ahead. The organisers, Defend Our Juries, said: “Cancelling peaceful protests lets terror win.”<\/p>\n

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The Metropolitan Police said on Saturday it had begun making arrests at a Defend Our Juries protest in Trafalgar Square. The force said people displaying placards in support of Palestine Action are being detained.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Twitter<\/a>, the Met said: \u201cOfficers have begun making arrests in Trafalgar Square where people are displaying placards in support of Palestine Action. The square is busy, but quite a few people in the crowd appear to be observing\/supporting but not carrying placards themselves.”<\/p>\n

Police forces have deployed extra officers to synagogues and other Jewish buildings to offer protection and reassurance in the aftermath of the attack.<\/p>\n

Sir Stephen urged would-be attendees at the Manchester protest to ‘consider whether this is really the right time’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Up to 100 people gatheredThe rally in Manchester(Image: Joel Goodman) A pro-Palestine rally was held in Manchester city…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8086,156254,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-475058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-city-centre","13":"tag-manchester-synagogue-attack","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115319628368014812","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}