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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/22/britains-double-standards-over-anti-semitism/
If the Fire-Bombed Synagogues Had Been Mosques, the UK Government Would Respond Very Differently
(Telegraph-UK) Allison Pearson - So many Jews in Britain never before had to worry about their ethnicity or religion. I am no longer using the word antisemitism. This is racism of the most hateful and monstrous kind. In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 massacres, criticism of Israel's response to the rape, murder and kidnapping of its men, women and children by marauding barbarians has morphed into an escalating campaign against Jews here. The attempted firebombing of Kenton United Synagogue in northwest London on April 18 was just the latest in a heinous wave of arson attacks. Last month, masked men set fire to four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity in Golders Green - life-saving vehicles that helped the whole neighborhood. All this while British Jews are still reeling from an assault on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur in which two men were killed. Imagine the furore if the recent spate of attacks on synagogues had been against mosques. The prime minister would have called out the army. Jews are just told to be vigilant. Jews are among our most valuable and patriotic citizens and shaped the country we live in. Why should they leave? Millions of us don't want them to go, although we are too quiet about it. But go they will if this vile hatred is allowed to spread unchecked. If the Jews leave Britain, we will have lost not just them, but what it means to be us.