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Peter Hitchens claims Manchester synagogue attack was ‘not antisemitism’

The outspoken columnist advanced a bizarre alternative theory as to what motivated Jihad al-Shamie to target Jews on Yom Kippur

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Peter Hitchens (Image: YouTube/The Spectator)

Yonni Finlay is one of three victims of the attack who were hospitalised (Image: Instagram/ Naz_Hashem)

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Heaton Park attack victim ‘no longer feels safe in this country’

By Jamie Shapiro

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Jihad Al-Shamie launched a terror attack at Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester last Thursday (Image: X/ David Atherton)

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Manchester synagogue attacker had three wives and pledged allegiance to ISIS in 999 call

By Jamie Shapiro

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Former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps (Image: Getty Images)

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My father-in-law came face-to-face with evil at Heaton Park, Grant Shapps tells JC

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 04: Players of Manchester United take part in a minute's silence for the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack prior to the Premier League match between Manchester United and Sunderland at Old Trafford on October 04, 2025 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

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Letters to the Editor, October 10 2025

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Congregants of Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation comfort each other in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on Yom Kippur (Photo: Getty)

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Nigel Farage: Antisemitism has infected the institutions of our country

By Nigel Farage

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Armed Police and emergency responders gather near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue following the terror attack on Yom Kippur, on October 2, 2025 (Image: Getty)

By Robin Simcox

UK must dismantle Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood at home to protect the nation and its Jews

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Neighbours allegedly reported Heaton Park attacker to police years before he carried out the terror attack in Manchester

The revelations call into question whether al-Shamie was known to police before he carried out the terrorist attack against Heaton Park Synagogue last week

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

October 6, 2025 16:03

Faraj Al-Shamie celebrated the birth of his grandson with a post on Facebook

Fundraiser launched for injured victim of Manchester shul attack

Andrew Franks was seriously injured while protecting other congregants from the terrorist

By Gaby Wine

1 min read

October 6, 2025 15:32

Keir Starmer’s ‘lamentation’ of Manchester attack is a ‘depraved opportunity for PR'

Author and former JC editor Jake Wallis Simons condemned the government for ‘hammering Israel’ for the past two years.

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

October 6, 2025 15:04

Jake Wallis Simons (left) and podcast host Brendan O'Neill (right) at a JC event at Belsize Square Synagogue

By Stephen Pollard

Spare us the pearl-clutching from broadcasters who fan the flames of antisemitism

The broadcasters bewailing the terror attack in Manchester are the very people who have portrayed Israel as uniquely evil

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October 6, 2025 14:08

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood speaks to the media outside the Heaton Park synagogue. (Photo: Getty Images)

Observer editorial makes false claim about murdered Jews in UK

The paper had stated that nobody had been killed for being Jewish in Britain since the 1650s, but an expert has raised several more recent examples

By Jacob Jaffa

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October 6, 2025 13:58

Front page of The Observer on October 5, 2025 (Image: The Observer)

MPs back Jewish group’s plea to call off Bob Vylan Manchester gig

Manchester Academy has not even responded to the request, despite Thursday’s attack the JRC said

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

October 6, 2025 12:11

Bobby Vylan has called for people to find "[Zionists] on the street" (Image: Getty)

By Phil Rosenberg

We will defeat antisemitic hate with Jewish joy

’In honour of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz we must resume our British Jewish lives with confidence and resolve’

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October 6, 2025 12:06

'Our response to antisemitic terror is Jewish joy and Jewish pride' (Photo: Getty)

Britain should deport foreign antisemites, shadow home secretary says

Foreign citizens who exhibit racial religious hatred or support for terrorism should be ejected from the country, Chris Philp has said

By Lorin Bell-Cross

5 min read

October 6, 2025 11:11

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp (Image: Elliott Franks Photography).

The UK Muslim clerics and activists who preach hate, back terrorists – and get away with it

In case after case, the authorities have failed to prosecute chilling comments about Jews and Hamas

By Jacob Jaffa

3 min read

October 6, 2025 11:02

The 'convoy for Palestine' in 2021, which allegedly saw participants shouting 'f*** the Jews' as they drove through central London (Image: X)

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Heaton park synagogue attack

Peter Hitchens claims Manchester synagogue attack was ‘not antisemitism’

Heaton Park attack victim ‘no longer feels safe in this country’

Manchester synagogue attacker had three wives and pledged allegiance to ISIS in 999 call

My father-in-law came face-to-face with evil at Heaton Park, Grant Shapps tells JC

Letters to the Editor, October 10 2025

Nigel Farage: Antisemitism has infected the institutions of our country

UK must dismantle Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood at home to protect the nation and its Jews

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