The Community Security Trust issued the warning on Tuesday in a security bulletin that outlined nine instructions to Jewish institutions, including a call to “ensure visible external security patrols take place to deter and detect hostile activity” and immediate reporting to police officials of any suspicious behavior.
As reported by the JTA, the instructions were issued in response to Tuesday’s Jerusalem attack that left four rabbis and one Druze police officer dead, but “also following the stabbing of a Jewish man on his way to synagogue in Antwerp on Saturday,” the bulletin stated. “CST is not aware of any specific threat to the Jewish community in the UK. However, we urge everyone to remain vigilant and to report and challenge suspicious activity immediately to Police and CST.”
CST noted that Eric Pickles, Britain’s secretary of state for communities and local government, called CST chief executive David Delew to discuss the Jerusalem attack and express his full support.
Jewish communities throughout Europe expressed shock and outrage at the horrific attack.
CRIF, the umbrella group of French Jewish communities and organizations, expressed its “horror.” CRIF’s president, Roger Cukierman, emphasized that the presence of Hamas, which lauded the attack, in the government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would “disqualify [the legitimacy] of initiatives for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.”
The Consistoire, the outfit that is responsible for providing religious services to numerous Jewish communities in France, convened its council for a session on the synagogue attack. The religious body stated that the attack “reached a new level of barbarism” and offered its condolences to the families of the victims.
“Jewish communities around the world are united this morning in immeasurable grief,” declared Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis.
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