#Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Jihad Al-Shamie Kills Two on Yom Kippur - What Media Won't Tell You. Published: October 3, 2025, 14:30 GMT | Updated: 16:59
Police Reveal Victim Killed by Friendly Fire in Yom Kippur Massacre | EXCLUSIVE: Father's Deleted Post Warned "Bad News for Israel" Five Days Before Attack.
BREAKING: MANCHESTER TERROR ATTACK - Two British Jews, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were murdered outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall on October 2, 2025—Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.
Police cordon outside Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, Crumpsall, Manchester - Credit: BBC.
“Bad news for Israel in the next few days.” — Faraj Al-Shamie, father of the terrorist, Facebook post, September 27, 2025 (deleted)
Greater Manchester Police confirmed Friday that one victim died after being accidentally shot by armed officers responding to the terrorist attack—a tragic consequence of the chaotic seven-minute response that also saw the attacker killed.
The attacker, 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, rammed his vehicle into worshippers before launching a knife attack outside the synagogue on Middleton Road. Four others were seriously injured in what authorities declared a terrorist incident.
LATEST UPDATES:
14:30 GMT: Three suspects remain in custody on terrorism charges
11:48 GMT: Deputy PM David Lammy heckled at vigil for victims
09:15 GMT: GMP confirms one victim killed by police gunfire
Thursday 9:38 am: Jihad Al-Shamie shot dead by armed officers
The Attack: A Seven-Minute Nightmare.At 9:30 am Thursday—during Yom Kippur prayers—Al-Shamie drove directly at Jewish worshippers gathered outside Heaton Park Synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester.
After ramming the crowd, Al-Shamie exited his vehicle and began stabbing victims. He wore what appeared to be a suicide vest, later confirmed to be fake.
Synagogue security and worshippers prevented the terrorist from entering the building, locking doors as children as young as six hid under pews inside. Armed Greater Manchester Police officers shot Al-Shamie dead within seven minutes of the first 999 call.
The Victims: Friendly Fire Tragedy.
On Friday morning, GMP Chief Constable Stephen Watson revealed that one victim—either Adrian Daulby or Melvin Cravitz—suffered fatal gunshot wounds during the police response. A fourth victim also sustained non-life-threatening gunshot injuries.
“It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad Al-Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm,” Watson stated. “Subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers.”
Both Daulby and Cravitz were members of Crumpsall’s Jewish community, murdered for no reason other than their faith.
The Attacker: 30 Years in Britain.
Jihad Al-Shamie was 35 years old, a British citizen since 2006, and his family had lived in Greater Manchester for at least 30 years. He worked as a tutor teaching English and computer programming. He was a father.
His father, Faraj Al-Shamie, worked as a trauma surgeon for NGOs in warzones, including with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Greater Manchester Police confirmed Al-Shamie had no previous Prevent referrals—UK authorities had no indication he was at risk of radicalisation.
EXCLUSIVE: The Deleted Facebook Post.
Five days before the attack, on September 27, Faraj Al-Shamie posted on Facebook: “Bad news for Israel in the next few days.”
The post has since been deleted, but was captured and verified by multiple sources.
On Friday, after his son murdered Daulby and Cravitz, Faraj issued a statement condemning the “heinous act” and claiming the Al-Shamie family was in “profound shock.”
Questions remain: Did he know? What was the “bad news” he referenced just five days before Yom Kippur?
Three suspects remain in custody—two men in their 30s and a woman in their 60s—arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences. Counter-terrorism police are investigating whether this was a coordinated plot.
A Name That Raises Questions.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood admitted she was “surprised” by the attacker’s name: “Actually, as a Muslim, I’ve never heard someone being called Jihad, but it is the name that he was born with.”
The name “Jihad” translates as “struggle” or “holy war.” Combined with “Al-Shamie” (”of Syria”), the symbolism is unavoidable. For 35 years, someone with a name translating roughly as “Syrian Holy War” lived in Britain without raising concerns.
Protests Hours After the Massacre.
Within hours of the attack—while Daulby and Cravitz’s bodies still lay in the morgue—pro-Palestine protesters took to London’s streets.
Forty people were arrested after clashes with police outside Downing Street. One protester was filmed saying she didn’t “give a f*** about the Jewish community.”
Metropolitan Police pleaded with organisers to postpone Saturday’s Trafalgar Square protest, citing the need to deploy officers to protect Jewish communities. Home Secretary Mahmood called proceeding “fundamentally un-British.”
The organisers’ response? “Don’t arrest us then.” The protests went ahead.
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis stated: “You cannot separate the words on our streets, the actions of people in this way, and what inevitably results, which was yesterday’s terrorist attack. The two are directly linked.”
Two British men are dead. Their community is grieving. And protesters couldn’t pause for one weekend.
Deputy PM Heckled at Vigil.
Friday, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy attended a vigil for the victims in Crumpsall. As he was introduced, hecklers shouted “shame on you,” “you’re not welcome here,” and “Go to Palestine.”
This was a vigil for murdered Jews. Yet even here—at the site where blood was spilled—political rage couldn’t be contained. Mark Adlestone, chairman of the Jewish Representative Council, had to intervene: “All right, we’ve heard enough.”
The Political Reckoning.
The timing is catastrophic for Labour. Keir Starmer has become the most unpopular British Prime Minister on record, with just 13% satisfaction. Reform UK now leads Labour by 12 points (34% vs 22%).
The Campaign Against Antisemitism blamed the attack on “appeasement of extremists” by successive governments, particularly “those of the far-left and radical Islamists.”
Labour faces an impossible squeeze: Muslim voters furious about Gaza, Jewish voters questioning their security credentials, and Reform voters seeing this as proof immigration has failed.
Pollster James Crouch warned that Starmer’s premiership could be “fatally wounded.” Labour has suffered “the worst-ever fall in support for a newly elected government,” according to polling expert Sir John Curtice.
British Jews: A Tiny, Targeted Minority.
This is 21st-century Britain. Yet Jewish schools require armed guards. Synagogues like Heaton Park need metal detectors. Jewish neighbourhoods are patrolled by Community Security Trust teams funded by Jews themselves.
Britain’s Jewish community numbers approximately 300,000 people—just 0.5% of the UK’s population. Despite being such a tiny minority, they face disproportionate targeting.
Over 83% of British Jews were born in the UK. They have no connection to Israel beyond shared heritage. They don’t make Israeli policy. Many have never visited. Yet they’re targeted and murdered for actions over which they have zero control.
Daulby and Cravitz weren’t Israeli politicians. They were British men attending their local synagogue on Yom Kippur. What did they have to do with Middle Eastern geopolitics? Nothing.
The attack comes against a backdrop of soaring antisemitic incidents. Over 3,500 hate crimes were recorded in 2024, with more than 1,500 in just the first six months of 2025.
Prime Minister Starmer addressed the nation: “A vile individual committed a terrorist attack that attacked Jews because they are Jews, and attacked Britain because of our values.”
But words ring hollow when Jews have been warning about escalating antisemitism for two years—and it took a Yom Kippur massacre for the government to listen.
The Copycat Threat.
UK security services are on highest alert. The methodology was simple: a car, a knife, targeting a vulnerable synagogue during Yom Kippur. No sophisticated explosives. No complex planning. Just hatred and opportunity.
With three suspects in custody on terrorism charges, investigators are racing to determine if this was part of a wider network.
When was the last time a Jew was murdered in Britain simply for being Jewish? You’d have to go back centuries—to medieval pogroms and the 1190 massacre at Clifford’s Tower in York—to find comparable religiously-motivated killings on British soil.
Thursday’s attack shatters decades, possibly centuries, of relative safety. It proves what the Jewish community feared has become a deadly reality.
This isn’t history repeating after 800 years. This is British history being rewritten in Jewish blood on the streets of Crumpsall, Manchester.
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