30mago 13.48 BST
Labour MP Graham Stringer has said there is a Jewish school with “heavy
security” near the synagogue that has been attacked in Manchester.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s World at One, the Blackley and Middleton South
MP said he thinks it is “depressing” and “appalling” that it is felt those
children are under such a threat that security has to be paid for at their
school.
He added that despite an increase in attacks on Jewish people, that
“shouldn’t distort the fact that actually the vast majority of people in the
Jewish community, the Muslim community, other communities, there is a
real level of tolerance and a determination to get along with each other”.
He insisted there is a “determination between the communities to not let
those extremist, evil people wind things up”.
Stringer also said he is “particularly upset” by an attack on the synagogue,
which is in his constituency, because he knows some of the congregation “by
first name”.