"There were bodies which I didn't want to look at. It was just like something that you imagine in the movies. When she was eventually evacuated to safety more than 12 hours later, she recalled a scene of dystopia, it was a scene of chaos."
"I was abandoned by the British government at a time of total vulnerability. The British government is allowing what's going on ever since, in demonstrations and in antisemitism running riot, students in universities suffering Jewish students, communities affected every day since and that's been allowed to happen."
"I still live under threat. I cannot feel safe in a country that normalises this kind of behaviour. I had no recognition. I came back to the UK."
Anat Ron-Kendall, a British-Israeli dual national and sole known UK-based survivor of the October 7 attack, has provided testimony for an updated parliamentary report on the assault. Her father was killed during the attack while she was visiting the Nahal Oz kibbutz with her son. She endured over 12 hours sheltering in a safe room amid gunfire before evacuation. Ron-Kendall describes witnessing scenes of chaos and dystopia with bodies scattered throughout. More than two years later, she expresses feeling unsafe in the UK, citing normalized antisemitism, university discrimination against Jewish students, and ongoing demonstrations. She claims the British government abandoned her during her vulnerability and continues to allow antisemitic behavior to flourish without intervention.
Read at www.independent.co.uk
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