3 October 2025

The Murder of 2 Jews at a Manchester Synagogue is as Despicable as Israeli snipers killing 2 Catholics at Gaza’s Holy Family Parish Church or Murdering Muslims in Mosques

 The Board of Deputies & the Zionist Lobby said that British Jews Support Genocide in Gaza

Is it Surprising That Someone Believed Them?


It goes without saying that the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester should be condemned unreservedly. British Jews are not responsible for the war crimes and genocide taking place in Gaza, despite the best efforts of the claque of Zionist organisations to get people to believe that they are.

The so-called Jewish representative organisations like the Board of Deputies, the Campaign Against Antisemitism, Jewish Leadership Council and the astoundingly stupid Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis bear a large responsibility for what happened in Manchester when two Jewish worshippers lost their lives.

As far as I can ascertain from two AI programmes (Chat GP and Grok) there has never been a fatal attack on a Jewish synagogue before 2 October 2025. The person who carried out the attack, Jihad al-Shamie, is highly likely to have been motivated, not by racial hatred but by Israel’s war crimes and genocide in Gaza.


Contrary to Starmer’s suggestion that an age-old anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews is to blame, the causes are modern. It is Starmer’s supply of arms and weaponry to Israel and support of military collaboration with Israel that helped cause the murders in Manchester.

In November 2009 on the BBC’s Big Questions I attacked those Zionist organisations in Britain who spend their time trying to convince people that British Jews support Israel’s war crimes. This was reported by the Jewish Chronicle as ‘The Board of Deputies is to blame for rising antisemitism in Britain, according to a leading member of a Jewish anti-Israel group’.

What I said was that:

 “Of course there’s no justification for antisemitism, but there’s also no justification for the Board of Deputies calling rallies in support of the invasion of Lebanon and Gaza in the name of the British Jewish community. That causes antisemitism. [Jewish Chronicle 19.11.09].

Those who openly supported the murder and massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and Palestine in the name of British Jews are those who are ultimately guilty for the murder of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester.

Less than a week ago on Twitter I told the Board of Deputies

The Board of Deputies Protesting That The Government Has Resumed Funding UNWRA and Is Not Objecting to the ICC's Jurisdiction re Israeli War Crimes

I went on to say that

Any British Jews who supports Israel's holocaust and starvation in Gaza should not complain of 'antisemitic hate' when what it really is is a justifiable reaction against Jewish Nazism.

The Board defends Israel's cold-blooded murder of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators as Hamas using children as pawns

The Board of Deputies has consistently supported every war crime of the Israeli state. It supported the murder of over 300 unarmed Palestinians in Gaza in the Great Return march. It supports Israel’s genocide and indeed penalised those few Deputies who eventually spoke out against the genocide.

The Jewish Chronicle Defends Israel's Starvation of Children by Pretending That They All Suffered from Medical Conditions not Lack of Food!

The Jewish Chronicle has been even worse. It should be renamed ‘The Holocaust Denial Gazette’. It has repeatedly defended Israel starving Palestinian children to death claiming that they had medical pre-conditions. It is as if starving to death already ill children was justified. Previously only Hitler justified starving disabled children as part of his ‘euthenasia’ program.

It took the Times of Israel to rebut the lies of the British Jewish Establishment which had justified Israel’s policy of starving the population of Gaza. The ToI quoted two senior Israeli doctors, including the head of the pediatric gastroenterology unit at one of Israel’s premier medical institutions, who ‘insisted that al-Mutawaq’s severely emaciated state is not the result of his preexisting medical conditions alone.’

The attempt of the Zionist propagandists to justify Israel’s policy of starving the population, denying it was even happening, by suggesting that photographs of starving children were misleading in not mentioning pre-existing medical ailments was given legs by a particularly nauseating apologist for Israeli war crimes, David Collier. This was quickly followed up by the misnamed Honest Reporting Zionist site

The Board of Deputies and other Zionist organisations were at the centre of the fake and false 'antisemitism' allegations

The ToI quoted Israeli doctors as having

insisted that no child suffering from such diseases in Israel or most other Western countries would be so skeletal or display such severe malnutrition, and that he was likely in such condition due to an inability to access the proper nutritional supplements.

Prof. Dan Turner, the head of a pediatric gastroenterology unit and Deputy Dean of the School of Medicine at the Hebrew University stated that

You categorically do not find kids looking like that in Israel or Western countries. Even patients with background diseases should not be malnourished like that. A patient like that would be admitted to hospital.

None of this is to justify what happened in Manchester. There are those in the Palestine solidarity movement who buy into the Zionist lie that Israel is a Jewish state and that the British and US states are controlled by Zionists. Such people therefore believe that attacking individual Jewish Zionists in Britain or the US is the solution to Western imperialism’s support for Israel.

These lies are dangerously wrong. Israel is supported by Western elites, not because the British or American states are controlled by Zionists or subject to Zionist infiltration as Professor David Miller has stupidly suggested but because Western imperialism deems it in its interests to support the Israeli attack dog in the Middle East. See Jonathan Cook’s The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West and In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked

It is in the interests of western elites to pretend that their support for Israel is all about their concern for Jews and ‘anti-Semitism’, the only form of racism that Trump, Reform and the Tories condemn. That this is all about a ‘Jewish’ state trying to protect itself, albeit over zealously at times, and tie that in with the interests of Jewish populations in the West.

It is convenient for those self-same elites to disguise their own interests in oil and geo-political strategy with concern for Jews. Jews have become the moral alibi for Israel's war crimes and the slaughter of thousands of children, the rape and murder of women and the torture camps for Gaza’s men.

Those who condemn the killing of 2 Jewish worshippers in Manchester should equally condemn the killing of Muslim and Christian worshippers in Gaza yet the genocidal Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and the genocide supporting President of the Board of Deputies, Phil Rosenberg have said nothing about the attacks on places of worship in Gaza. On the contrary when 36 Deputies issued a mild letter of criticism in the FT Rosenberg had them disciplined and issued his own letter saying that ‘The Board of Deputies stands firmly with Israel… not THAT letter.

ABC - Holy Family Church in Gaza Attacked - 2 Murdered

The attack on a Manchester synagogue and the killing of two worshippers was no more reprehensible than Israel’s repeated attacks on mosques and churches in Gaza and the killing of thousands of worshippers. Unfortunately the only attacks that have gained publicity have been those on Gaza’s only Catholic church, the Holy Family Parish. Israeli snipers on 16 December 2023 killed two parishioners, mother and daughter Nahida and Samar Anton.

Cardinal Nicholls interview over sniper attack on Holy Family Church - Mother and Daughter Shot Dead

The Wikipedia article gives the background to the Israeli assault on the Holy Family church. Pope Francis rang the priest Father Gabriel Romanelli every night and condemned Israel’s attacks as terrorism.  Something which the new Pope Leo hasn’t done.

Israel’s liar-in-chief and Prime Minister, Netanyahu, ‘regretted’ the fact that ‘stray ammunition’ hit Gaza's only Catholic Church, killing three people sheltering there. No one else doubts that Israeli tanks deliberately fired shells at the Church which the IDF considers to be an obstacle to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Although the Zionists will purport to condemn the attack on a Manchester synagogue in reality many, especially in Israel, will welcome it. There is a long history of Zionists seeing anti-Semitic attacks as a good thing in that it will drive Jews into believing that only a ‘Jewish’ state can protect them.

As Abraham Shpadrong (Sharon) wrote in Davar in July 1952:

… if I had the power, as I have the will, I would select a score of efficient young men… and I would send them to the countries where Jews are absorbed in sinful self-satisfaction. The task of these young men would be to disguise themselves as non-Jews, and plague these Jews with anti-semitic slogans, such as 'Bloody Jew,' 'Jews go to Palestine,' and similar 'intimacies.' I can vouch that the results, in terms of considerable immigration to Israel from these countries, would be ten thousand times larger than the results brought by thousands of emissaries who have been, for decades, preaching to deaf ears. [Alfred Lilienthal, The Other Side of the Coin, Devin-Adair, NY, p. 47].

Iraqi Jews Were Convinced that Israeli Agents Had a Hand in Their Uprooting – Avi Shlaim

In Iraq in 1950/51 Zionist agents planted bombs in Jewish cafes and threw a bomb into a synagogue, Masuda Shemtov, in order to simulate anti-Semitism.

Without anti-Semitism there is no Zionism which is why the Zionist leaders welcomed Hitler to power and saw a ‘golden opportunity’ for their movement in the rise of the Nazis. Those  supporters of the Palestinians who see their salvation in anti-Semitism are doing exactly what the Zionists want them to do. The murder of two Jews in Manchester can only be of benefit to Israel and its supporters. It is in the interests of Zionism to increase the level of anti-Semitism in the West.  Anti-Semitism has been Zionism's best recruiting sergeant. That is why the actions of Jihad al-Shamie have ended up strengthening Zionism not weakening it.

It is also why those who believe that it is in the interests of the Palestinians to unite with neo-Nazis, as Rehiana Ali clearly does, are unwittingly serving the interests of Zionism not the Palestinians.

Tony Greenstein