{"id":37016,"date":"2017-06-19T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=37016"},"modified":"2017-06-19T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:23:49","slug":"after-london-mosque-attack-jewish-groups-express-solidarity-with-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/after-london-mosque-attack-jewish-groups-express-solidarity-with-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"After London mosque attack, Jewish groups express solidarity with Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (JNS.org) &#8212; Several British Jewish groups expressed solidarity with the U.K.\u2019s Muslim community following an attack outside London\u2019s Finsbury Park Mosque Monday, where a van plowed into a crowd of Muslim worshipers as they left prayer services just after midnight.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37017\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37017\" class=\"wp-image-37017 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FINSBURY\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/225;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37017\" class=\"wp-image-37017 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"FINSBURY\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FINSBURY.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-37017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of London&#8217;s Finsbury Park subway station. An attack outside the city&#8217;s mosque June 19 left one man dead and 10 wounded. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One man was killed and 10 were wounded in the attack, which British authorities are investigating as a potential terrorist incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn this attack and its attempt to escalate tensions in the U.K. and we stand firmly besides our Muslim brothers and sisters in the aftermath of this attack,\u201d said European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our heartfelt sympathy, thoughts and prayers are with the victims,\u201d the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jonathan Arkush, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s Jewish Leadership Council and Jewish security organization Community Security Trust (CST) also condemned the attack and issued condolences.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s incident follows three Islamic terror attacks in the U.K. this year.<\/p>\n<p>In early June, seven people were killed and 50 were injured in London, when Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists drove a van into crowds of pedestrians, before carrying out a stabbing rampage.<\/p>\n<p>Daesh also claimed responsibility for the May 22 suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena, which killed 22 people and injured 59.<\/p>\n<p>In March, a British convert to Islam rammed into pedestrians on London\u2019s Westminster Bridge, killing four, and then fatally stabbed a policeman.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"After%20London%20mosque%20attack%2C%20Jewish%20groups%20express%20solidarity%20with%20Muslims\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2069,8578,8790,8795,89,6185,430,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37018,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37016\/revisions\/37018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}