The New Statesman

Hello, I'm Tangel Rashid and this is the New Statesman podcast.

Two years ago on October the 7th,

2023, Hamas militants committed a series of atrocities in southern Israel.

1,195 people were killed in the attacks.

251 people were taken hostage by Hamas.

47 remain in captivity, some alive, some dead.

Since then, war has ravaged the Gaza Strip

and in the form of escalating settler violence spread to the West Bank.

Israel has inflicted famine on Garzans.

Over 60,000 Palestinians have been reportedly killed in the conflict,

and a third of them are children.

And this war has rippled far beyond Palestine, Israel,

and the wider Middle East, affecting communities and politics around the world.

In Britain, protesters have filled the streets every week,

and questions are asked about why our government has supported Israel

with weaponry and intelligence used in the Gaza Strip.

Then on Thursday, on Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar's most holy day, two worshippers were

killed outside a synagogue in Manchester.

I'll be joined shortly by my colleague Rachel Cunliff, who writes in this week's New

Statesman magazine about the way the Hamas attacks have changed what it means to be Jewish in Britain.

That issue went to print on Tuesday prior to the Manchester Synagogue attack.

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