In the days following a terror attack, especially an Islam inspired terror attack, there is often a period of what could be called the informational clarification period. This happens as more information about the attacker, the motive and the attack itself comes to light and is released. The aftermath of the appalling attack on Heaton Synagogue on Yom Kippur is no exception.
We’ve learned since the Yom Kippur attack that one of the Jewish men who attempted to keep out the deranged jihadist called Jihad from the synagogue was accidentality shot dead by an armed police officer. We’ve learned that the jihadi called Jihad who carried out this attack was on bail accused of rape at the time of the attack on Heaton Synagogue and that Jihad’s father had also put out social media posts praising the attack on Israel by Hamas in October 2023. It also emerged that Jihad was a known extremist who had attempted to inculcate his Moslem ex-girlfriend into the ways of Islamic violent extremism and that he appears to have not acted alone in carrying out this attack on the synagogue. I wonder how long it will be before we all find out that Jihad was one of the tens of thousands of British Moslems who are on Security Service and Counter Terror Police watchlists? Such a revelation would not I’m afraid be much of a surprise.
The aftermath of the Heaton Synagogue massacre has also shown us the true face of the so-called ‘pro-Palestinian’ protestors. This mob couldn’t even let British Jews grieve for even the smallest amount of time before they took to the streets in what was clearly a set of victory parades following the murder of two Jews in Manchester. We can clearly see now that these ‘pro-Palestinians’ don’t care about a just peace in the Middle East, all they care about is hurting Jews and hurting Israelis. If there was any doubt that these people are the scum of the earth then the way that they behaved following the Manchester synagogue atrocity should dispel any of those doubts. There’s no two ways about it, these ‘pro-Palestinian’ bastards celebrated this murderous attack on British Jews and we should never ever forget or forgive that.
Another thing that has come out in the aftermath of the Islamic terror attack on British Jews in Manchester is that public attention is now being turned to the multitude of British mosques that have been hosting speakers and preachers whose views about Jews would not be out of place in the German Third Reich of the 1930’s and 1940’s. We have all been regaled recently with videos of Islamic preachers calling for the annihilation of Israel and expressing extreme hostility towards British Jews. Much of this background about Islamic Jew hatred has been well known to those of us who have studied this problem but now it’s starting to make an impact on those who may not have been aware as they might have been about this issue.
The aftermath of the Manchester Synagogue Atrocity must be a turning point in Britain. It must mark the time when British governments listen to those who know where the bulk of Jew hatred in the UK is coming from, which is from Moslems and the Left and not just say that this hatred is all the work of the ‘far right’. In Britain the real far right would have trouble filling a village hall whereas there are hundreds of thousands of Moslems and Leftists who are out there and being very active in their Jew hatred. We must all recognise what the problem is and speak up about it.
The attack has also been a turning point for Britain’s non-Orthodox Jewish communities. For decades, many of Britain’s Reform and Liberal Jews have, by dint of their class position insulating them from the effects of awful policies, been able to live in the comfortable delusion that multiculturalism is working, that there can be peace with Moslems and that common ground can be found with British Islam. Whilst I would dearly love to see such peace and have no wish for conflict, I also take the view that such a viewpoint is naive in the extreme. Now following the Manchester atrocity I’m hearing on the Jewish grapevine that a lot of British non-Orthodox Jews are starting to consider carefully matters of security. They are also talking openly about the dangers posed by radical Islam and that is something that would have been unheard of just ten years ago when non-Orthodox Jewish groups in Britain believed that if we just extended the hand of friendship towards Moslems then everything would get better. Of course not every Moslem is a radical who hates Jews but it is stupidity in the extreme to not recognse that some Moslems are problematic in this way.
The Yom Kippur attack in Manchester was the shattering of an illusion. Many British Jews previously took the view that despite the need for synagogues and Jewish schools and other communal entities to have to deploy the sort of security that would not be out of place at a military base, at least we were not facing the sort of violence against Jews that is all too common in places like France and Germany. That delusion is now over. We cannot point to Britain and say that things are better here than elsewhere in Europe because that is no longer the case. We in Britain now suffer from the ailments that have cursed these other places and we now live in a new world of greater and more immediate threat than we have had in Britain for many decades.