WE all know the drill by now.
It’s the same after every terror attack: Politicians express how horrified and shocked they are, people light candles and call for community cohesion, and then we all go back to our daily lives.
With Starmer, his ministers and MPs spouting claims of ‘genocide’ in Gaza — what did they expect the outcome to be?[/caption]
Pro-Palestinian marches in London see protesters carrying antisemitic placards and chanting slogans calling for Israel to be wiped from the map — all with impunity[/caption]
Until the next time.
Sir Keir Starmer was the first politician to express his horror and shock at the attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, that has left two dead and four seriously injured.
But why is he shocked?
It was ALWAYS a case of “when” and not “if” Jews would be slaughtered on our streets simply for being Jewish.
This day was always going to come.
And I’m afraid it is Sir Keir Starmer who helped guarantee that it would.
While, at the time of writing, we do not know the identity or exact motives of the killer, I think it’s pretty safe to assume that the man who rammed his car into people outside a synagogue, while armed with knives and what turned out to be a fake suicide belt of explosives, did not choose his targets — or the date of his attack — at random.
Oxygen of hate
Of course, the Prime Minister didn’t wield the knife or drive the car himself, and, no, I don’t believe he is antisemitic or that he personally wishes harm on any Jew at home or abroad.
Yet it is HIS words and HIS actions as the leader of our country which have fuelled the hatred that inevitably ends with innocent Jews being slaughtered on our streets.
Whoever the Manchester attacker turns out to be — British-born or an immigrant, whether illegal or legal, Muslim or non-Muslim, a lone wolf radicalised on the internet or part of an organised cell — terror attacks don’t happen in a vacuum.
They require the oxygen of hate and lies.
And, boy, has this Government turned on that oxygen tap to the full.
When Starmer’s ministers and MPs spout lies about Israel committing “genocide” in Gaza in a bid to out-virtue-signal each other, what did he expect the outcome to be?
When the British Prime Minister chose to reward Hamas by granting UK recognition of a Palestinian state — even while the terrorists continue to starve and torture 20 hostages in dark tunnels two years on from the October 7 massacre — what message did he think that would send to extremists?
When Starmer’s ministers and MPs spout lies about Israel committing “genocide” in Gaza in a bid to out-virtue-signal each other, what did he expect the outcome to be?
Children wrapped in blankets are looked after at the scene of the horror attack in Manchester[/caption]
When, for two long years, we have heard non-stop hatred of Israel screamed on our streets, delivered over the airwaves by the BBC, our state broadcaster, and spewed by MPs in Parliament, what did everyone think would happen?
When Starmer (and, yes, the last Tory government, too) allowed thousands of so-called pro-Palestinians to march through central London every other Saturday, carrying blatantly antisemitic placards and chanting “from the river to the sea” — a Hamas slogan calling for Israel and every Jew to be wiped from the map — with impunity, how did he think that would be seen?
Yes, people have the right to peaceful protest, but silently appeasing open extremism and hatred rarely ends well.
And let’s not forget that the first march to supposedly save innocent Palestinian children in Gaza was being organised on the DAY of the Hamas massacre, while Israeli women were still being raped and mutilated, their children burnt alive in their beds, hostages driven across the border, and before a single Israeli soldier had even set foot in Gaza.
Meanwhile, day after day, the police here in Britain have tolerated blatant acts of antisemitism on our streets and done nothing.
The Community Security Trust, which monitors anti-Jewish abuse, reported 1,521 verbal or physical incidents in just the first six months of this year. That’s 1,521 too many.
When Jewish students are hounded from universities and forced to barricade themselves into safe rooms; when Jews need security guards outside their synagogues and schools; when Jewish children need to hide their faith on their way to and from lessons; when Jews are routinely being abused and assaulted in the street, on buses and trains and their businesses attacked — wasn’t all of that a pretty big clue that something was going horribly wrong?
I’ve lost count of the number of Jewish people who have told me they are making plans to leave Britain because they no longer feel safe here.
They would rather live in Israel, facing a war on their border, than live with hatred on their own doorstep.
Wasn’t that the wake-up call that “Never Again” was turning out to be a hollow slogan, not a solemn pledge?
So, forgive me if I’m not convinced by the PM’s own hollow words before he boarded a plane home from a summit to chair a Cobra emergency meeting and deployed extra police on to the streets, insisting he would do everything he could to keep Jewish people safe in this country.
We all know that simply isn’t true.
This, after all, is a man who happily joined Jeremy Corbyn’s Cabinet and stood silently by while antisemitism engulfed the Labour Party.
Numbers game
And now, as the Prime Minister faces a drubbing in the polls, Starmer has chosen to do whatever is necessary to appease his left-wing backbenchers and self-appointed Muslim community leaders with the formal recognition of a Palestinian state.
Let’s not mince words here: This isn’t a moral stance or a means to further British interests abroad.
Starmer is simply playing a numbers game to gain as many votes as possible at home from Britain’s four million Muslims — and to hell with the concerns of this country’s 290,000 Jews.
Despite all his hand-wringing about October 7, Starmer has chosen to appease the very same extremists and dangerous ideology responsible for that horror.
Starmer can go ahead and light a candle then deliver that oh-so-familiar call for us to all stand together in the face of extremism. But we all know that, in the end, it is actions that speak louder than words.
As every historian worth their salt will tell you, when the tide of antisemitism rises in any country, it’s not just bad for Jews, it’s a symptom of a rot deep in the core of our political system.
That’s why no one should be shocked by this terror attack on a Manchester synagogue — least of all our Prime Minister, who has acted to reward antisemites abroad and to appease anti-Jewish hatred at home.
So, Starmer can go ahead and light a candle then deliver that oh-so-familiar call for us to all stand together in the face of extremism.
But we all know that, in the end, it is actions that speak louder than words.
Officers at the scene today as emergency services descended on the site[/caption]
