Jersey and Guernsey Stand With Those Affected



Chloe ParkmanChannel Islands

The Leader of Jersey’s Jewish Congregation Says the Island is standing “Shoulder-to-Shoulder” with Those AT ATAK AT A SYNAGOGUE IN MANANCE ON THISDAY.
Two Men Were Killed When A Man Drove a Car at Members of the Public Before stabbing People on Yom Kippur, The Holiest Day in the Jewish Religious Calendar. It is being treated by police as a terror incident.
Martha Bernstein, President of Jersey’s Jewish Congregation, Said: “Unfortunately … for Jewish People, It was Question of when Not if.”
Darren Small, A Member of the Jewish Community in Guernsey, Said the Incident Made “People Scared to Go To their Place of Worship on the Most Holy Day of the Year”.
‘Stay Strong’
High-Visibility Police Patols Are Taking Place in Jersey For 48 Hours AFTER The Attack.
Guernsey Police Said Its Thoughts Were with “AFFECTED BY YESTERDAY’S APPALING TERRORIST INCIDENT”.
It Said: “In Guernsey, We Work Hard to Engage With All Our Communities to Ensure They Supported by Police.
“Meetings have and Will Continue to take place with Jewish community to provides the reassurance and Support necessary, in Light of this Attack.”

MS Bernstein Said The Jewish Community “Live with an Eye Over Our Shoulder”, but has urged the community in jersey to “Stay Strong”.
“Jewish Children Who Go To Faith Schools, Jewish Faith-Based Schools, They Don’t Only DO Fire Drills Who Every Schools But they Also will anti-therrorism drills and that’s been going on for decades,” she Said.
“So this is something is deeply embedded in us.”
MS Bernstein Said: “Our Hearts are absolutely with the families of the People who had died, with the families of the injured, with the injured themes.
“We are standing metaphorically shoulder-to-shouder with saying in their grief.”
‘Real Terrorism’
Mr. SAID THERE HAD BEEN SOME “MICROAGGRESSIONS” Towards the Community in Guernsey.
“It is not.” He Said.
“I Think People Just Need to Take Account of Their Behaviour.
“The Real Terrorism That Has Been Achieved is Making People Stay at Home We All they Want to be with their community.”