A ‘BRITISH man of Syrian descent’ named Jihad al-Shamie committed a terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester. Jihad had been welcomed to the UK as a Syrian child refugee and later naturalised as a British citizen.
Britain welcomed him, sheltered him and gave him asylum. He went through the British school system, and was subjected to whatever meagre attempts to provide British values living in Britain now entail.
Yet he grew up to be a man who rams a car into a synagogue.
The attack came after the remnants of ISIS issued another call for attacks on British Jews and other British citizens. It is irrefutably Islamic terrorism.
It is also irrefutably the case that Jihad al-Shamie would not have been able to carry out this attack if he had not been welcomed here. He joins a growing list of asylum seekers who end up committing terrorist atrocities or serious crimes.
It is difficult to obtain exact figures for the number of terrorist offences and serious crimes committed by immigrants. Freedom of Information requests in both 2023 and 2024 were rebuffed by the Government and the Office of National Statistics on the grounds that they did not hold the data. Similarly this is an area generally avoided by mainstream media outlets. I wonder why.
Yet here we have two innocent British Jews dead because one Syrian Muslim was granted British protection and citizenship. We can definitely say that our immigration policies and asylum provision contributed directly to innocent deaths in Britain.
Eighty per cent of all terrorism charges in the UK relate to international terrorism (ie ideologies and individuals that are imported into the UK before committing terrorist offences), 94 per cent of terrorism is committed by males, and more than 70 per cent of illegal entrants to the UK are foreign-born males from nations which have serious crime and terrorism problems.
If the Muslims among them were not radicalised before arrival, there is plenty of opportunity for them to be radicalised here.
Finsbury Park Mosque in London, for instance, has been associated with individuals involved in terror plots, such as Abu Hamza al-Masri, who served as imam and was later extradited to the US. It was linked to the London bombers of July 7, 2005, to the ‘shoe bomber’ Richard Reid, and others connected to Al Qaeda.
Other mosques have also faced scrutiny. The Masjid-al-Tawhid in Leyton was investigated by the Charity Commission in 2012 over potential links to extremist groups, with allegations that radical clerics such as Abu Qatada and Anwar al-Awlaki had preached there. The Ripple Road Mosque (also known as Essex Islamic Academy) was placed under interim management by the Charity Commission in 2018 after it was revealed that convicted terrorist Umar Haque taught children there without qualifications and showed them videos of beheadings.
In 2023 the Charity Commission began assessing mosques in Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and London which were hosting pro-Hamas sermons that included calls to ‘destroy’ Israelis and ‘kill’ Jewish people.
So far as I know, none of the investigated mosques was ever closed, even after proven links with terrorism.
Mainstream media report the Prime Minister, the Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and even a few Muslim organisations condemning this specific attack but none of their responses really took note of where these attacks are coming from. They certainly don’t want to mention the migrant background of the killer and they seek very obviously to deflect attention away from his religion. As usual, more time is spent telling people it has nothing to do with Islam than is spent looking at Islam as a motivation, or British policies and attitudes as a cause.
If you knew there were Jew-hating messages being spouted in mosques and on pro-Hamas marches before British Jews are murdered, might it not be wise to be honest about them in a moment like this?
How can the Prime Minister or anyone else condemn this murder while pretending that it’s irrelevant that the killer is here because of mass migration, or talk about rising anti-Semitism, or address it, without being honest on where it originates?
They will not be honest on these things because they would have to acknowledge their own complicity in these attacks and they would have to feel some degree of guilt for them too. After all, they support and permit open borders which make the UK more dangerous. And they have aligned with and supported Britain’s Islamic community to the point of working on Islamophobia laws which would render criticism of religious terrorism more illegal than the kind of rhetoric and messaging that supports and encourages such terrorism.
Immediately after the Manchester attack, the police allowed another pro-Hamas March to go ahead in London against the advice of the Home Secretary. These marches spread the lie that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a lie repeated by mainstream British news sources. Are we supposed to believe that constantly telling people Israel is evil and murdering Palestinian children for no reason plays no part in growing anti-Semitism and in attacks on British Jews?
The growing antisemitism comes from a climate of legitimised hate, of which recognising the ‘state’ of Palestine and allowing Hamas marches is a part.
How on earth is allowing future killers into your nation, or allowing Jew-hating messages, marches and pro terrorist positions within your nation, some of which authorities and commentators seem to agree with, not part of the reason why the anti-Semitism exists?
What does it do to attitudes towards Jews in Britain when the BBC or ITV reports share Hamas propaganda as facts?
Many people will sit through a BBC report on Gaza and end it by hating Israel, not knowing any other sources and not knowing how biased the reporting is. Or they will hear Labour politicians condemning Israel and expressing a sense that Palestinian terrorism is justified or understandable.
Every pro-Palestinian march in the UK has been an anti-Jewish march. It’s been a movement based on excusing and ignoring Palestinian terrorism towards Israeli Jews. Every one allowed has increased anti-Semitism in the UK. And the same applies to the incredibly weak and complacently indulgent responses to direct calls to violence, terrorism and Jew hatred from leftist music bands such as Kneecap and Bob Vylan. At the Glastonbury festival in June these performers openly supported terrorism (as they have on multiple other occasions). The BBC broadcast it. Bob Vylan called for terrorist murders of the Israel Defense Forces. More recently, in Amsterdam, the band led chants calling for death to ‘Zionists’, which has become a common extreme leftist and Muslim jihadist code for calling for death to Jews.
The BBC received no punishment for broadcasting support for terrorism in its Glastonbury coverage. The organisers of Glastonbury have received no punishment for allowing terrorist support and booking terrorist-supporting acts. The bands have received no punishment for inciting violence and openly-supporting terrorism. The Government offered brief condemnation, and zero action. It’s been far more aggressive against Lucy Connolly than against these bands or pro-Hamas marches. The British Establishment has made it clear that rhetorical criticism of migrants and asylum seekers is a crime, but open calls for the murder of Jews (or white people for that matter) is not.
These are lessons killers heed. This creates a social environment in which the understanding of the world held by the killer is supported by the authorities before an attack, even if they condemn it afterwards.
Even then, condemnation is compromised by the central dishonesties of pretending that Islamic terror attacks have nothing to do with Islam, or that killers are in the country thanks to a migration policy no one will change. Even then, we see the authorities and mainstream media very swiftly moving condemnation from the true sources of these attacks (which include themselves) on to the innocent, and on to the people who are brave enough to tell the truth.
That is what all the ‘those who sow division’ and ‘we will not let them divide us’ comments mean.
This is of course madness. It is an insult, mantled by fake promises of protection to British Jews. How can the people who allow and reward Jew-hatred be the people who will now protect them? How are the people offended by the England flag and ready to arrest people for waving that, but not offended by broadcasts and bands supporting terrorism and not prepared to arrest people for that, going to protect innocent Jews or innocent Brits more generally?
They are too busy saying everything is transphobic or Islamophobic and blaming us for the unspeakable crimes of Islamic terrorists. They are too busy protecting Islam to protect the people whom Muslim assassins wish to target.
This article appeared in Jupplandia substack on October 3, 2025, and is republished by kind permission.
