Jewish leaders in Manchester have called for an Irish anti-Israel rock group to be banned from performing less than a mile from the synagogue where two men were killed in a terror attack last year.
Fontaines DC, which last July projected the words ‘Israel is committing genocide’, and ‘free Palestine’, to an audience of 45,000 in London, is set to play on Shabbat at Heaton Park next July.
In 2024, the band’s guitarist Carlos O’Connell used his acceptance speech at the Rolling Stones Awards for best album to say: “F*** Netanyahu. F*** Zionism. Free Palestine.”
Heaton Park Synagogue, a three-minute drive from the park, was the scene of October 2025’s Yom Kippur terrorist attack which left Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz dead.
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