Rob Rinder makes devastating five-word statement after Manchester terror attack

Rob Rinder has issued a desperate plea to Brits following the tragic Manchester synagogue attack. On Thursday (October 2), two people were killed and four others were hospitalised in a serious condition after a car and knife attack outside a synagogue in Manchester. The attack came on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

Greater Manchester Police said officers were called to the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue at 9.30am. It is understood a vehicle drove into pedestrians and one person was stabbed. Armed police declared a major incident and opened fire minutes later, killing the suspect.

Clips shared on social media showed police with guns pointed at a person on the tarmac as a bystander could be heard saying the man had a bomb and was trying to push a button.

Police have since declared the attack a terrorist incident and have made two further arrests. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has arrived at Downing Street to chair a Cobra committee emergency meeting.

The tragic incident has sparked nationwide backlash, and now Good Morning Britain presenter Rob Rinder has spoken out online. Taking to X - formerly known as Twitter - the broadcaster issued an urgent plea to Brits up and down the country.

He wrote: "On the holiest day of the year, we are attacked at a Manchester synagogue. Our children walk to school behind barbed wire protected by guns. Yet some still answer this atrocity with 'what about...'

"This is my country, the sanctuary my grandfather found after surviving the Holocaust, promising freedom under the rule of law. Today I pray for the victims, thank the brave who responded, and wonder if that promise is fading."

The TV presenter concluded: "A community this small cannot stand alone. If you believe in Britain (wherever you're from & whatever your faith) you must stand with us. Many Jews cannot imagine a future here, and history tells us what follows when that happens."

It didn't take long before fans flooded to the comments to pass on words of support and condolences online. One user penned: "Rob, we DO stand with you. It's a minority that stands against, they will be put back in their box as we have voted a government in that actually stands with the people of this country. Until then, please take heart & know the vast majority of people in the UK stand with you."

Another added: "I am so sorry and ashamed. My father and my uncles fought for this country, they never came to terms with the hatred that the Jews had endured. If they could see what this country has become they would be spinning in their graves. My prayers are with you all, believe me, so many of us stand with you."

A third fumed: "I stand with our Jewish community and condemn this horrendous attack on the synagogue in Manchester. The antisemitism in this country has been rising and rising and our Govt has done nothing to stop it. It has ignored it and focused on other areas."