Britain has abandoned Jews to this savagery
The writing was on the wall long before the horror in Manchester.
TOM SLATER
Six minutes. That is all it took for Britain to descend to a new low of infamy, in which Jews are slaughtered at synagogues. A nation whose entire postwar sense of self is bound up with the fight against the Nazis – against militarised anti-Semitism – is now a place where Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has become stained in the blood of British Jews, brutally murdered by an assailant dressed all in black.
The attack this morning at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, at the heart of the Jewish community in the north of Manchester, is by turns horrific and horrifically predictable. A car rammed into congregants, a scumbag emerged and stabbed two dead, before being ‘neutralised’ by armed police as he tried to smash his way through a window, while wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest but may well have been a grotesque prop to his barbarous performance.
Words fail me. Because we have failed Jews. The horror in Crumpsall comes after years of anti-Semitism bubbling up from the depths, while the great and good did little more than spray some air freshener, offering warm words about standing with the Jewish community, while doing naff all else. In which Labour continues to prattle on about ‘Islamophobia’ or the ‘racism’ of Nigel Farage’s visa proposals, while the world’s oldest hatred has staged a barbaric comeback on our streets.
Even before 7 October in Israel – the most deadly assault on Jews since the Holocaust, two years ago this week – British Jews could see what was coming. Even before Hamas sent its killers and rapists into kibbutzim and dance parties, even before Western capitals erupted in jubilation about those apocalyptic incursions, British Jews made up 0.5 per cent of the population and a quarter of the victims of religious hate crimes. Jewish pensioners would be suckerpunched in north London. A Jewish cemetery in Kent was desecrated eight times in 10 years. Security around schools and synagogues became a grim fact of British Jewish life. Meanwhile, we had TV debates about whether it was racist for Boris Johnson to mock the burqa, or Adele to wear her hair in braids and wave a Jamaican flag during Notting Hill Carnival. It shames us.
Then came the pogrom, and the reins came off. Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain hit a 40-year high. Assaults on Jews surged by almost 100 per cent. Islamic activists chanted Arabic war slogans about the murder of Jews on London demonstrations, while Israelophobic leftists pretended not to notice. And this post-7 October 2023 carnival of Jew hatred peaked before the IDF rolled into Gaza, to destroy the jihadists and retrieve Israel’s stolen citizens. This was a bigoted, violent celebration of the murder of Jews. And it isn’t abating, either. The Community Security Trust recorded 1,521 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2025, the second-highest number… since 2024.
We wait to learn more about the killer and his motives. Counter-terror police believe they know his identity, but aren’t letting on just yet. Investigations are ongoing. Two further arrests have been made. But I dare say we need not wait to conclude that Crumpsall is where years – nay, decades – of a growing, ambient Jew hatred leaves us. In which the age-old blood libels have been repackaged for the ‘pro-Palestine’ idiots. In which Israel is cast as the killer of babies and the grand puppeteer of geopolitical affairs. In which British Jews – a tiny, embattled minority smaller in number than British Sikhs – are once again cast as the eternal scapegoat for all of society’s and the world’s ills. As the great, sinister, ‘privileged’ bogeymen of the intersectional pyramid.
After Crumpsall, we must stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters. And we must do so much more than that. Any gentile who has ever talked publicly or written about the scourge of anti-Semitism – even just occasionally, as I have – will have had this experience: British Jews offering their heartfelt gratitude, for what we all know should be the bare minimum. And yet far too many struggle even to do that. We have let this happen. It is our cancer to remove. And remove it we must.
Tom Slater is editor of spiked. Follow him on X: @Tom_Slater
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Politics: national renewal
RICHARD NORTH
It is very difficult to offer anything which can make a useful contribution to the torrent of words written and spoken in the wake was what was quite evidently an attempt at mass slaughter in the Heaton Park Synagogue yesterday morning.
While two males were murdered and others were seriously injured, a greater number of deaths was avoided by the quick thinking of security staff, the bravery of Rabbi Daniel Walker and the rapid intervention of the Greater Manchester Police armed response unit.
The police presence culminating in the perpetrator, 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, being shot dead on the scene – seven minutes after the first 999 call – after fears that he was carrying a bomb which he was about to detonate.
Prime minister Starmer has been almost as quick to make a statement but no text version seems to have been posted, with no attempt as yet (at the time of writing) to place his words on the official No.10 Downing Street website.
Relying on the BBC reportage, Starmer condemned the “vile individual” who carried out the “horrific” attack on the holiest Jewish day of Yom Kippur. He offered his condolences to the victims and their families and then thanked the first responders.
In what is then described as a recorded message to Jewish people, Starmer then went on to declare: “I know how much fear you will be holding inside of you. I really do… Nobody should have to do that. Nobody”. Thus, he promised that he would “do everything in my power to guarantee you the security that you deserve, starting with a more visible police presence, protecting your community”.
Continuing on in this vein, he then promised that, “over the coming days, you will see the other Britain, the Britain of compassion, of decency, of love”, adding that hatred against Jews “is rising once again, and Britain must defeat it once again”, as he reflected on the history of Jews seeking refuge in the UK.
By no means everyone was impressed with Starmer’s words – not by a long chalk. With Israeli commentator Liza Rosen reminding us of Muslims chanting: “Khayber Khayber Ya Yehud, jaish Mohammad sauf ya’ud”, a call for the beheading of Jews on the streets of Britain – apparently without any intervention from the police, we have forthright statements from Col. Richard Kemp who sets the tone for many.
The British government, he says, “has blood on its hands in Manchester, repeatedly fuelling Jew hate in the UK by constantly amplifying Hamas propaganda and vilifying Israel in words and actions”. They have, he adds, “abrogated their responsibility to protect British Jews by allowing hate filled propaganda to prevail”.
Kemp is equally critical of others, saying: “The same goes for the BBC, Sky News and other media who constantly and wilfully distort events in Israel and, like the government, amplify Hamas propaganda. All of this amounts to incitement against Jews in the UK and elsewhere and today we saw the outcome in Manchester”.
Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, seems to echo these sentiments, saying that the incident was “the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come”, adding that “for so long we have witnessed an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred on our streets, campuses, on social media and elsewhere – this is the tragic result”.
The BBC, however, gives space to Imam Qari Asim, co-chairman of the British Muslim Network. He declares that the scenes in Manchester had “no place in our society” and “antisemitism in all its forms is totally unacceptable”. Adding that, “The bloodshed and violence in the Middle East – which is excruciatingly painful to witness for all of us – must not be allowed to poison our streets in Britain”.
Some of us a less inclined to take lectures from Muslim clerics, not least in this case because the Middle East has dominated street protests throughout the UK ever since 7 October, with the clear approval of Muslim leaders who have been directly involved in Gaza demonstrations, for whom the British Muslim Network does not speak.
Singularly unimpressed is Pete who, writing on his Substack blog, echoes Col. Kemp with his heading: “Starmer has blood on his hands”.
He recalls that a certain Shabana Mahmood was in August 2014 accused of encouraging mob rule last night after she boasted of taking part in an anti-Israel protest that forced a supermarket to close. She lay in the street outside a Sainsbury’s store in Birmingham alongside dozens of pro-Palestine campaigners, protesting against the fact that it was “stocking goods from illegal settlements”.
Her “direct action”, she claimed, forced the supermarket to close for several hours on a busy Saturday. She then used YouTube to brag about her actions, calling for a boycott of Israeli goods – in direct contravention of Labour policy.
This is the woman who abstained from several key votes on issues related to the war in Gaza, including a call for a ceasefire in Gaza in November 2023 and a call to suspend arms sales to Israel in March 2024. She also chose to abstain from proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Now our home secretary, she has been happy in the past to rub shoulders with those who chant genocidal slogans such as “Globalise the Intifada” and, says Pete, today she got her wish. Mahmood, however, is unlikely to experience a “gentle knock on the door” from Mr Plod.
But then, he says, if the plod had to arrest all the people who’ve incited violence against Jews over the last two years, there would be no room in the prisons for anybody else. At this scale, the responsibility ultimately rests with Starmer’s government which has appeased Islamists at every turn – even to the extent of recognising Palestine. Starmer has blood on his hands.
Adding insult to injury and death, he notes, we have seen yet more hate marches popping up in Glasgow, Leicester, London, and most sickeningly, Manchester itself.
As to the individual who carried out the attack – now officially designated as a terror attack – he has been identified as a Syrian immigrant who entered the UK as a young child and was awarded British citizenship in 2006.
One can imagine that Mahmood would insist that he was English and, should you say or imply that he cannot be English, Starmer and his Labour Regime will fight you with everything they have “because you are the enemy of national renewal”.
Doubtless, the Jews of Manchester and elsewhere will be heartily reassured by Starmer’s determination to root out the enemies of national renewal. Certainly, we cannot expect any slackening on the prime minister’s embrace of the toxic creed of Islam, ignoring the jihadists in our midst who rely on the quiescence of the Muslim communities, as do fish take to water.
On the face of it, it is evident that the police have concerns that Jihad Al-Shamie may not have been acting alone, having raided a house in White House Avenue, a short distance from the synagogue, whence they arrested two men aged in their 30s and a woman in her 60s, on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack,
It won’t be long, though, before the Islamic apologists are out in full force, attempting to damp down the growing dismay at being forced to accept a murderous cult in our midst.
Underscoring this point, says Pete, is Dan Hodges who asks: “If a Far-Right terrorist had entered a Mosque in the wake of Tommy Robinson’s march through London, and murdered two people, what would the Left now be saying? What would Labour MPs now be saying? What would Ministers now be saying? What would the Prime Minister now be saying?”.
Pete answers the questions, asserting that they’d be saying all the things the Right are not permitted to say today. The police would be embarking on a nationwide blitz of any right-wing organisation or individuals (sort of like they’re already doing). Parties to the right of Reform would be proscribed, and they’ll be throwing grannies into cages for spicy comments on YouTube videos.
What should be happening right now, he says, is the mass expulsion of Islamists, a crackdown on hate marches (the way the Germans do) and the shuttering of any mosques with links to extremism. But that will not happen because Labour panders to Islamism. We can expect emboldened hate marches this weekend while gormless plod stand idle and watch.
What will happen, though, is that the wave of arrests, intimidation and harassment of “right wing” bloggers and tweeters will continue when any so much as dare to mention the Islamic cult.
While Muslims involved in public order offences are invited to interviews, our people are dragged out of their houses, locked in cages and subject to midnight interrogations.
Soon enough, when “Islamophobia” is given official recognition, it will become an offence even to report the religion or origins of homicidal immigrants. We may then rest easy in our beds in the comforting knowledge that Starmer has vanquished the enemies of national renewal.
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