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

If you want to stop anti-Semitism @boardofdeputies then stop associating British Jews with the Holocaust in Gaza.
Your support for Zionism, a Christian ideology originally, makes Jews unsafe because most people don't like those who starve children to death. That's what the… https://t.co/IAgx9f3hsT

— Tony Greenstein tonygreenstein.com (@TonyGreenstein) September 29, 2025

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

Having Told the Truth About Israel , the BBC Promptly Apologised – Presenter Anjana Gadgil had said that ‘Israel is Happy to Kill Palestinian Children’

Israel’s Army Killed 4 Children and Wrecked the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin – All in ‘Self Defence’

Al Jazeera Film on Israel’s Propaganda War

In May 2021, as the world’s eyes were on Israel’s attack on Gaza, Israeli soldiers wrecked the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin. They even took the time and trouble to tear up the children’s reading books. This is the hate that Zionism engenders.

Last week Israel’s military went even further. They not only wrecked the interior, they damaged the exterior walls of the Centre, punching large holes in them, demolishing the balcony. This is understandable. To Zionism Palestinian children are what Jewish children were to the Nazis. The embodiment of a satanic people.

On October 4 1943, in Posen (Poznan), Himmler explained why it was necessary to kill not just Jewish adults but their children too:

Thus I did not feel I had the right to exterminate – let’s say then, kill them or have them killed – the men while I allowed their avengers, in the form of their children, to grow up and avenge them upon our sons and grandsons.

Al Tafawk Video

The Al Tafawk Centre, which we have helped fund for the past four years, will not be allowed to die and I am therefore asking people to contribute what they can afford to the Go Fund Me Crowdfunder.

The British Shalom/Salaam Trust has also launched an 

URGENT APPEAL on behalf of the AL TAFAWK CHILDREN'S CENTRE

The BBC – Allergic to the Truth

Despite killing 4 children in Jenin, making some 35 Palestinian children in the West Bank this year, the BBC apologised because Anjana Gadgil told the truth for once and said that ‘Israel is Happy to Kill Palestinian Children’ when questioning former Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett. Bennet is on record as saying that 'I've Killed Lots Of Arabs In My Life And There's No Problem With That'.

Palestinians in Jenin confront Palestinian Authority after deadly Israeli raid

Bennett’s claim that the children that Israel kills are ‘terrorists’ is a lie but in the eyes of the Zionists, Palestinians by definition are terrorists.

Jenin – Middle East International

I have therefore submitted a complaint to the BBC about their apology to the Zionist lobby for Gadgil’s remarks and asked them to withdraw it and also apologise for Gadgil having accepted that the term ‘terrorist’ applies to Palestinian children anyway. (see below)

‘Her smile never left her face’

By Basel Adra July 5, 2023

In a previous military raid in Jenin, the army killed seven Palestinians, including 15-year-old Sadeel Naghniyeh, who according to witnesses was shot in the head while standing at the entrance to her home. Her death began reverberating after images of her fellow classmates carrying her body for burial went viral.

Sadeel was shot on June 19, and died of her wounds two days later. Her father Ghassan described the scene to +972:

“The alarms started going off in the camps, we heard screaming, and people began running to their homes. This is a scene that repeats itself in every invasion of the camp. Israeli snipers went up to the roofs of the houses and buildings and began shooting. The clashes were not close to our house, we only heard them. My daughter was speaking to her cousins through the window, and told me that she wanted to go to her uncle’s house. I told myself that it is better that she go and not talk through the window, since doing so is more dangerous because of the snipers.”

This is Kareem! The sweetest child in the Al Tafawk Centre - his father has just been killed and he is homeless! 

The reality of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian children, which the BBC deliberately ignores was highlighted by the new Save the Children Report which showed that:

·                During arrest, 42% of children were injured, including gunshot wounds and broken bones, and 65% of children were arrested during the night, mostly between midnight and dawn. Half of all arrests took place in the children’s home.

·                The majority of children experienced appalling levels of physical and emotional abuse, including being beaten (86%), being threatened with harm (70%), and hit with sticks or guns (60%).

·                Some children reported violence and abuse of a sexual nature, including being hit or touched on the genitals and 69% reported being strip searched.

·                60% of children experienced solitary confinement with the length of time varying from one 1 day to as long as 48 days.  

·                Children were denied access to basic services, 70% said they suffered from hunger and 68% said they didn’t receive any healthcare.   

·                58% of children were denied visits or communication with their family while detained.

·                The majority of children detained are boys – a trend reflected by the survey, with boys representing 97% of the respondents.

The Anti-Boycott Bill

As 1000 Israeli soldiers were launching a blitzkrieg on Jenin Refugee Camp, together with drones and helicopters, British MPs gave a second reading to the anti-Boycott Bill which is designed to protect the right of Israel to commit war crimes and to make solidarity action with the Palestinians illegal.

In Israel’s British apologists are enabling this violence former Guardian correspondent David Hearst wrote that:

‘Every word that Keir Starmer or Lisa Nandy utter in support of the 'Jewish homeland' sends a very clear message to Israel that it can carry on doing what it wants.’

Israel has openly fascist and neo-Nazi Ministers in power such as Police and Security Minister, Itamar ben Gvir, who used to hang a portrait of Baruch Goldstein on his living room wall. Goldstein opened fire in February 1994 in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron massacring 29 Palestinian worshippers. Ben Gvir, who used to chant ‘death to the Arabs’, has recently told his supporters to change the chant to ‘Death to the terrorists’.

The BBC’s craven apology speaks volumes about the organisation. But let us have a look at the child ‘terrorists’ that Israel has murdered.

On June 2 a two-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Tamimi died after being shot in the head near Nabi Saleh by Israeli soldiers while riding in a car with his father. The army later said that the death was ‘unintentional’ and that the soldier would be reprimanded.

Four children murdered on Gaza beach playing hide and seek

In 2014 during Operation Protective Edge Israel murdered 551 Palestinian children. No doubt they too were terrorists, like the 4 children playing hide and seek on Gaza’s beach. Israel later described their death as a ‘tragic accident’.

In 2018 during the Great Return March from Gaza, Israeli snipers opened fire killing 50 children and some 266 unarmed demonstrators. The snipers injured 30,000 others. The bullets they used were deliberately designed to cause maximum damage to the human body.

Israel’s attack on Jenin needs to be seen in the context of the remarks by Ben-Gvir, an ex-supporter of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who called for the murder of hundreds, if not thousands of Palestinians.

Jenin is laying the basis for a second Nakba. Thousands of Palestinians were forced out of their home and forced to wander the streets of the refugee camp, without food or water, as Israeli troops occupied their homes.

Mustafa Sheta described how the invasion began with a devastating attack on The Freedom Theatre, where a group of families had sought refuge. Even the most dishonest Israeli Embassy liar would be hard pushed to explain why this symbol of Palestinian culture was attacked, the road outside being destroyed.

The attack on Jenin refugee camp decimated its infrastructure and obliterated the main roads in the camp.

Hospitals in Jenin treated dozens who were wounded during the military operation but residents said that ambulances, in many cases, were unable to reach and evacuate those hurt.

The Jenin municipality said that the water supply had been cut off throughout the refugee camp because infrastructure had suffered damage in the fighting.

The city’s power grid also suffered significant damage due to operations by the Israel Defense Forces’ engineering corps. Residents said that both electricity and internet service was disrupted. Sami Bakr, who lives in the refugee camp, said:

Israeli Military Bulldozer

“I heard bulldozers, and suddenly we saw them destroying the roads leading to the refugee camp to prevent people from leaving or entering it,” he said. “There are still forces there, and the residents are very afraid. The vast majority aren’t opening their windows.”

Bakr said that residents had been under siege since the morning, without electricity or internet. “There are wounded people who still haven’t been evacuated from the camp because the medical crews can’t enter.”

Urabi Hamad, a Jenin resident who lives near the camp, said that in his neighbourhood “we can’t leave or enter” adding:

 “There are still many forces in the area. The media are also still under siege, and the medical teams can’t move. The fear is horrible. We hear shooting and explosions all the time, and we’re afraid it will escalate and expand. There’s a lot of destruction everywhere.”

See Jenin Residents: Ambulances Unable to Reach Many Wounded After Israeli Military Operation - Israel News, Jul 4, 2023

THE FREEDOM THEATRE in Jenin Refugee Camp, leads an emergency online meeting, on the invasion and what you can do

Doing Israel’s Dirty Work – The Palestinian Authority

It would also appear that another purpose of the attack on Jenin was to do the dirty work for the Palestinian Authority Israel’s military subcontractor. The PA hasn’t been able to operate in Jenin refugee camp for months.

Last Sunday the Israeli Security Cabinet decided that they would ‘act to prevent the collapse of the Palestinian Authority’ although this was opposed by Police Minister Ben Gvir with Smotrich abstaining. Smotrich, who is the effective Governor of the West Bank stated that ‘There will be no economic relief for the Palestinians.” 

The Jenin operation didn’t end. Phase Two has already begun.

After a PA delegation to the funeral of Jenin’s 12 martyrs was kicked out of the camp by mourners incensed at PA inaction, a ministerial committee was formed by presidential order to lead the reconstruction effort. Another Fatah delegation composed of members of its central committee returned on Saturday, July 8, to meet with members of the Jenin Brigade. The day after that, yet another delegation made up of PA ministers also arrived and made the rounds. The PA presence started to be normalized. See

According to PAJU, MahmoudAbbas the so-called Palestinian President visited Jenin on Wednesday to a hostile reception. In advance of his coming 1,000 PA security force members were deployed to Jenin. Rami, a Jenin resident was quoted as saying:

“We don’t need any help from the Palestinian Authority … you have been meeting [with the enemy] under the table,,, The Palestinian Authority is our occupier, not Israel.”

It also reported that ahead of Abbas’s visit

‘PA troops were spotted removing the flags of Gaza-based resistance groups Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), both of which enjoy great support across the West Bank.’

The same Israeli Judges Who Are the Bulwark of Israeli Jewish Democracy Enable the Military Dictatorship in the West Bank

The military subjugation of the Palestinians in the West Bank is backed to the hilt by Israel’s Zionist judges. The Supreme Court has consistently supported the demolition of the houses of families of Palestinian ‘terrorists’ whilst at the same time refusing to countenance the destruction of the homes of Jewish terrorists.

The ‘reason’ for this racist discrimination was explained in a 2015 ruling by Noam Sohlberg in the High Court. Sohlberg justified this openly racist discrimination by claiming that home demolition serves as a deterrent, and that the Jewish public was already “deterred and not incited.” Sohlberg acknowledged the existence of Jewish terrorism, but asserted,

“The difference exceeds the similarity in many aspects, and particularly… regarding mass attitudes: firm, wall-to-wall condemnation in the Jewish community, which is not the case on the opposite side.”

Largest Military Operation in Jenin as Israel Strikes Palestine Hard | Vantage with Palki Sharma

Sohlberg is a settler from Alon Shvut. A Sohlberg doctrine that is relevant to current events is his support for the lenient treatment of Jewish terrorism. As Yoana Gonen explained

From the outset, this was a shameful justification based upon a racist gut feeling rather than facts….  Appalling pogroms and acts of terror committed by hundreds of bloodthirsty settlers have become routine. Houses are torched with their occupants inside; masked Jews hurl rocks at cars and fire guns at Palestinian localities; thuggish gangs go after Arabs on both sides of the Green Line; and rather than “firm, wall-to-wall condemnation,” these acts receive the helpful turning of a blind eye or outright enthusiastic support on the right.

A few days ago Ben-Gvir told lawbreakers at the illegal outposts, “Run to the hilltops, we have your back.” In fact there is a ‘wall-to-wall’ refusal in the right-wing parties to avoid issuing any condemnation, including Prime Minister Netanyahu. Meanwhile, among the Jewish public, a sickening song of praise to the pogrom in Hawara has become a hit and can be heard at protests in support of the judicial overhaul.

Instead of combating the settler violence coalition members launched a grammatical battle over the definition of “terror” and lashed out at officials who called it that. National Missions Minister Orit Strock, whose son was convicted of abusing a Palestinian minor, said it was a “disgrace” to label the Jewish pogroms ‘terror’, and Finance Minister Smotrich described it as “morally unacceptable and genuinely dangerous.”

These events reveal the fraud in Sohlberg’s words, which purport to be an objective legal argument, but in fact stem from Jewish Supremacist notions that inspire Strock and Smotrich. Like these ministers, Sohelberg considers terror to be something that only Arabs engage in and as something that Jews are genetically incapable of.

See The Settler Judge Who Advocates Lenient Treatment for Jewish Terror

Tony Greenstein