Upon arrival, when Border Patrol noticed they were traveling with Israeli passports, they were asked why they had come to Manchester,” the group said.
“They responded that as survivors of the Nova music festival, they had been invited to share their experiences with the Jewish community in Manchester.
“They were informed that they would need to be questioned.”
The council added: “The only reason for their detention and interrogation was because they are Israeli.”
One of the officials is said to have spoken in “aggressive terms” to the two Israeli nationals — and to have told them, upon release, that “they had to make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over here.”
“The comment upon their release proves beyond any doubt that this individual was motivated by antisemitic intent,” the Jewish Representative Council statement said.
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