Sources say the terrorist Jihad Al-Shamie was on police bail for an alleged rape when he carried out the Manchester synagogue attack. The attacker responsible for the killings has been named as Jihad Al-Shamie. Tonight, counter-terrorism police confirm they believe he may have been influenced by extreme Islamist ideology.
The 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent was shot dead seven minutes after police were called to the scene. He came to the UK as a young child and was granted British citizenship in 2006 as a minor.
Patrick Christys says the local community in Manchester heckling David Lammy was inevitable
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GB News can also exclusively reveal this evening that the father of the attacker, Faraj Al-Shamie, has described Israel as a "terrorist state" on his Facebook profile, where he has regularly posted about the civil war in Syria and the Israel-Hamas war.
Mr. Al-Shamie said in a post on October 7th that the attack by Hamas had “proved beyond a shadow of a doubt” that Israel would “not remain.” Posts by Al-Shamie were made on the same account where he also shared a statement in which he and the Al-Shamie family in Britain and abroad expressed “profound shock” and strongly condemned the synagogue terrorist attack carried out by his son Jihad, who rammed his car into worshippers and stabbed congregants on Yom Kippur.
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Meanwhile, it has been reported that counter-terrorism police are investigating whether the attacker sent death threats to an MP for his stance on Israel.
Former Tory MP John Howell received a barrage of threatening emails in 2012 – one of which was from a “Jihad Al-Shamie.”
Today, the Labour Party came into contact with reality.
David Lammy was heckled. Manchester’s Jewish community shouted: “Shame on you! Go to Palestine! You’ve enabled this!” Then he attempted to speak, calling the local Jewish community his “friends” and insisting that “we mustn’t be divided.”
David Lammy has been booed off as he spoke at the vigil | PABut on the scene of this shameful terror attack against Jews – an attack that comes after a tidal wave of antisemitism ignored by his party – he couldn’t even speak from the heart. He read a pre-prepared speech, written by somebody else, from a piece of paper.
Pathetic. David Lammy got the reaction he deserved.
He was an incompetent foreign secretary who nominated Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leadership, hasn’t done nearly enough to stop the outrageous Jew-hatred we’ve seen across Britain, and in my view emboldened it further by banning arms sales to Israel.
Whilst David Lammy was foreign secretary, Downing Street even implied Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu would face arrest if he came to Britain.
Sir Keir Starmer, meanwhile, is sticking to pre-prepared statements, taking no questions. He’s probably trying to avoid what happened the last time he interacted with the public – after Southport, in Doncaster, at the races, or even at England football matches, where he was openly booed.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says she is “disappointed” protestors have not stepped back. But that’s hardly surprising – she herself has attended pro-Palestine marches.
People are angry. Tony Blair’s Labour government gave a Syrian jihadi, named Jihad, a British passport in 2006. He was reportedly on bail for rape.
In my view, Labour has fanned the flames of Jew-hatred in this country. When David Lammy was booed, he got exactly what he deserved.
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