Who's attacking Jews?

The simple and urgent question that our governing class won't answer

To give you an idea of how commonplace egregious acts of Islamist bigotry and antisemitic violence have now become in Britain, consider the following. On Tuesday of last week, I heard that there had been an arson attack on a memorial wall for victims of the Iranian regime down the road from the house I grew up in, in Golders Green (an area of London with a large Jewish community). I planned to write an article about it, but never managed to, because before I’d even had time to get started, that story had already been overshadowed by a worse one. Namely, that a man named Essa Suleiman — who was born in Somalia, came to the UK as a child, had a history of violence and was previously referred to the government’s counter-extremism programme Prevent — had waddled around that same area stabbing random Jews.

Fortunately, he was apprehended by heroic police officers and bystanders before he managed to kill anyone. Which, you will be in no way surprised to hear, led the British Islamo-left to erupt in outrage. Not at the fact that yet another sociopathic Jew-hating terrorist had tried to murder their fellow citizens of course, but rather at the police for daring to disarm him. I’ve written about just what an unimaginably ridiculous bunch of frauds these people are in great depth on this newsletter over the years, so I won’t repeat myself here. But clearly, this stuff illustrates that point nicely.

Zack Polanski, leader of the Green Party, reposting criticism of the police for non-lethally subduing a terrorist. The police had no guns, and the terrorist was still holding a knife.

Suleiman’s little Jew hunt has been receiving a lot of attention, but it’s only one in a string of antisemitic crimes that are now occurring constantly. In the past few days and weeks, just in London, there have been multiple attacks on Jewish targets. These include Hatzola ambulances being set alight a few hundred metres from the site of the double stabbing, a firebomb attack on a synagogue in Finchley, an arson attack on a synagogue in Kenton, an arson attack on a Jewish charity in Hendon, an arson attack on a Jewish-owned shop, and an attempted arson attack on a Jewish community site that was foiled. There have also been threatened and unsuccessful attacks on the Israeli embassy, Iranian-linked groups have been uncovered surveilling Jewish and Israeli-linked sites, and individuals alleged to have been preparing further attacks have been arrested. Remember, I’m only describing recent events, and only ones in or relating to London. Unsurprisingly, a not insignificant number of British Jews are now quite seriously contemplating leaving the country.

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Elsewhere in Britain, Jews were killed in an attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester by a man literally called Jihad, and a massive jihadist plot targeting Jews which, had it been successfully carried out, might well have been the deadliest terror attack in British history, was thankfully foiled.

The UK is not alone in this, either. Last December in Australia, Muslim men took rifles to a Hanukkah event and killed 15 people. In France, numerous Islamist attacks have contributed to the largest exodus of Jews from the country in many years. In the Netherlands, massive Arab mobs recently rampaged around throwing Israeli football fans in rivers and looking for ‘cancerjews’ (quote) to beat up…and so on.

A pretty dire state of affairs, albeit one that mirrors the Jewish experience in the vast majority of Muslim countries.

So what has been the response to all this? The same as it always is.

We’ve been subjected to all the usual platitudes from our political and media elites. When asked to specify where this hatred towards Jews is coming from, they’ve point-blank refused to answer the question. When discussing the nature of the problem, they’ve deliberately and cynically failed to refer to Islam or even Islamism, thereby actively misinforming the (few) people who take them seriously for patently ideological reasons. They’ve said ‘we must distinguish between Jews and Israel’, thereby suggesting that while violence towards Jews is unacceptable, unhinged hatred of Israel for defending its people against the same extremism motivating savage attacks on Jews in the West is somehow legitimate (it isn’t - see the screenshot of my tweet below for why).

Muslim politicians like Mothin Ali, who praised the October 7th massacre — during which unarmed Jews were shot in their hundreds, blown up and burned alive — as a ‘fight back’, spoke of their sadness at the ‘devastating news’ before immediately continuing to pump out ‘anti-Zionist’ propaganda on their social media channels. Hyper-woke publications like Novara Media whose commentators called Hamas’ attack on Israel a ‘day of celebration’ (direct quote) momentarily suddenly decided they disagree with Jews being murdered. Mehdi Hasan went on TV and said it was upsetting but that we really ‘need to have a conversation’ about is…Jews supporting Israel. Nice. And then, after briefly feigning horror, ‘progressive’ and Muslim agitators got back to business as usual, and declared that our concern should actually be…Islamophobia.

And all the while, our government ploughs on with its plans to censor frank discussion of the issue through the introduction of what will essentially amount to an Islamic blasphemy law introduced via the back door, under the guise of combatting ‘anti-Muslim hate’. You couldn’t make it up.

In short, the great and the good have been obfuscating and deflecting so hard their eyeballs are popping out their heads to avoid mentioning why Jews are being attacked and who is overwhelmingly responsible. It’s predictable, pathetic, and it’s getting people killed.

So let’s state the obvious.

The fundamental problem isn’t abstract, generalised ‘antisemitism’. It isn’t ‘those seeking to divide us’. It isn’t ‘austerity’, or ‘Israel being mean’. It isn’t even primarily ‘the terror marches’. It’s that there are large numbers of Muslims in this country and around the world who hate Jews and who keep attacking Jews. That’s what motivates attacks on Israel and Israelis, and it’s what motivates the attacks on Jews in the West.

Our entire liberal political and media class twists itself into knots to avoid admitting this, as it always has and seemingly always will. But the reality is plain to anyone not blinded by ideology; only those determined not to see it keep pretending otherwise.

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