Netanyahu suggests ‘weakness on terrorism’ led to UK synagogue attack

People outside Heaton Park shul in Crumpsall, Manchester after the terror attack. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “barbaric attack” on a British synagogue on Thursday, saying that “weakness in the face of terrorism only brings more terrorism. Only strength and unity can defeat it.”

The Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, accused the UK of failing to act against antisemitism in his response to the attack in Manchester, which killed two people.