A somber vigil for the victims of the Yom Kippur terror attack at a British synagogue turned sour when Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy was heckled by mourners.
Lammy was overwhelmed by shouts and boos from the crowd before he could even stand at the microphone at a memorial for the two people killed during the horrifying Thursday attack at Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester, the BBC reported.
“Go to Palestine! Go to Palestine,” one person shouted over the chorus of boos. “Shame on you.”
“You have blood on your hands,” another citizen shouted.
A third heckler held a banner that said “No More Words” and let loose on the Labour Party official as the crowd applauded the excoriation.
“You’ve allowed it! You’ve allowed it! You are all guilty,” the man said. “You are all guilty. You allowed Jew hatred in Manchester, on the streets. You are all guilty. We do not want you speaking here today.”
After the fiery invective, the entire crowd broke out into a chant of “shame on you,” footage from the BBC showed.
When Lammy began to speak the crowd further scoffed and laughed at his appeals, the BBC reported.
“We stand in solidarity with the Jewish people, because an attack like this is never felt alone,” the Deputy Prime Minister eventually said.
“Wherever you are in our country, Jewish people, our friends, our neighbours, our loved ones are terrified by the events of yesterday – of becoming targets, victims of antisemitic hate, simply for who they are,” said Lammy.
Heckling continued when his comments ended, with one man referencing the regular pro-Palestine marches throughout England by shouting, “you enabled it, every Saturday.”
Another pro-Palestine protest is planned for Manchester on Saturday, Al Jazeera reported, just two days after the terrifying terror attack carried out by Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen born in Syria.
Al-Shamie, 35, drove his car into the Yom Kippur crowd on Friday morning and then stabbed a security guard to death before being gunned down by British police.
He was not previously known to the UK’s anti-terror program “Prevent.”
