Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack

Pod Save the UK

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News Commentary, News, Government, Politics

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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“Shocking... but not surprising” - the words of Stephen Bush, Associate Editor at the Financial Times and Chair of the Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community for the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 2020. Stephen joins Nish and Coco to discuss the fallout from the shocking attack on a synagogue in Manchester last week. The trio discuss solidarity and protest, and why the government’s response to the Manchester attack is not making all British Jews feel safer. Stephen has also spent the weekend in an all-but empty exhibition hall, at Tory conference in Manchester. It’s a land of misspelt chocolate bars and retro racism - have the Tories given up the ghost? Later - Coco and Nish try their hand at some data analysis - introducing Pod Save the UK’s brand-spanking-new diarrhoea index - before checking in on a bold new idea straight out of the Green’s conference - abolishing landlords. CHECK OUT THIS DEAL FROM OUR SPONSOR https://www.shopify.co.uk/podsavetheuk GUESTS Stephen Bush CLIP CREDITS ITV The Green Party of England & Wales BBC The Guardian Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: [email protected] BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/podsavetheuk.crooked.com Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheuk Twitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheuk TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheuk Facebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@PodSavetheUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Cocoa Khan. Coming up on today's show,
0:07.5	we're joined by political journalist Stephen Bush to discuss the horrific anti-Semitic attack
0:11.9	at a Manchester synagogue on Yon Kruppur and new measures to further restrict pro-Palestine
0:17.4	protests. And after weeks of hearing nothing from the main party of opposition,
0:21.3	the Tory party conference
0:22.5	didn't turn out to be the boost
0:23.8	that they needed.
0:24.7	It turns out they can't even spell
0:26.3	the name of the country they want to run.
0:28.2	Meanwhile, at their conference,
0:29.9	the Green Party membership
0:31.2	have voted to abolish landlords.
0:33.7	So what would that mean for the UK?
0:43.2	So look, last week brought the awful news of an attack on a synagogue in Manchester while worshippers marked Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish
0:48.4	calendar. Two people were killed, one of them accidentally by the police, and three were seriously
0:53.5	injured. The attacker was shot dead at the scene, and three was seriously injured. The attacker
0:54.8	was shot dead at the scene. It's truly horrific news. The Board of Deputies and the Jewish Leadership
0:59.6	Council has issued a joint statement which ends at a time of rising anti-Semitism in the UK.
1:04.7	This attack was sadly something we feared was coming. We call on all those in positions of power
1:09.8	and influence to take the required
1:11.2	action to combat hatred against Jewish people. Since the 7th of October attack by Hamas,
1:16.6	actually two years ago this week and Israel's subsequent assault on Gaza, there has been a sharp
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