Manchester attack underlines Europe's antisemitic terrorism challenge

A terrorist killed two Jewish worshippers in a car-ramming and stabbing attack outside the Heaton Park Hebrew synagogue in Manchester, England, on Thursday. The attack came on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur.

The response of the synagogue’s security team in preventing the terrorist from accessing the facility and the swift response of armed police eight minutes after the attack began (most police in Britain are unarmed) appears to have prevented a far greater loss of life. Video shows the responding officers shoot the attacker dead after he refused to surrender. The attacker is believed to have carried a fake explosives belt, a tactic previously employed by the 2017 London Bridge terrorist perpetrators.