We are outraged by the violent assault carried out by Jewish far-right extremists on the Reform Beit Samueli Synagogue in Ra’anana, Israel, yesterday.

The attack took place during a screening of a joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day ceremony – a powerful and deeply human event that brings together bereaved families from both communities to mourn and to hope for a different future.

As hundreds of Israeli far-right activists screamed hate and incitement outside, those inside the synagogue were participating in a quiet, courageous act of remembrance and coexistence. The attackers escalated to violence: breaking into the synagogue, throwing stones and firecrackers, shouting racist abuse and physically threatening attendees.

Orly Erez-Likhovski was one of those injured in the attack

We send our solidarity to all those targeted, including our friend and colleague Orly Erez-Likhovski, Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC) of the Progressive Movement in Israel, who was injured when a rock shattered her car windshield. Her strength and leadership in the face of such hatred is a source of inspiration to us all.

This was not simply a protest – it was an attack on sacred space, on a Jewish community, and on the very values at the heart of our faith: peace, justice, and shared humanity. Ra’anana Synagogue, where this happened, was founded by British Rabbi Mickey Boyden after he made aliyah in 1985. In 2002 he then founded Kehillat Yonatan in Hod HaSharon in memory of his son, IDF paratrooper Yonatan Boyden, who was killed in 1993 during a rescue operation in southern Lebanon.

This assault must be condemned by all who claim to stand for democracy and decency. Today we are speaking to the Israeli Embassy in the UK – and our partners across the UK Jewish community – requesting they also issue clear and public condemnations of this violence.

We must speak clearly: violence has no place in our Jewish life, nor in the future we are building for Israel and its neighbours.

We are proud to stand with Orly and with our Progressive partners in Israel who are leading the work of peace and moral clarity. We will not be intimidated. We will continue to stand up for hope, for coexistence, and for the kind of Jewish future that dares to dream of something better.

• Statement from Progressive (Liberal/Reform) Judaism in the UK