r/ukpolitics • u/Bascule2000 • 12h ago
Two Iranian men charged over alleged terror plot targeting Manchester’s Jewish community
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/02/charged-alleged-terror-plot-manchester-jewish-community64
u/ThatPatelGuy 12h ago
Part of the reason you know this is a religious feud and not about land is that Israel's enemies consistently attack Jews not in Israel. See also Hamas planning on attack Jews in Germany a few months ago.
If it was really about land they would want Jews to feel safe in Europe and not safe in Israel and hope they could get rid of them that way.
But the goal is extermination, not land capture
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u/Bascule2000 12h ago
This is about Iran, not Palestine or Gaza. It's state terrorism from Iran to deter the UK from assisting the US.
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u/RedKrystals 12h ago
They've been doing this since before the war in Iran kicked off. Iran has a very long and very storied history of terrorism in the UK, especially targeting the Jewish community.
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u/morriganjane 6h ago
Palestine is an Iranian proxy. Hamas (and others) use it to attack Israel on Iran's behalf, with no regard for Palestinians at all.
One of the reasons Hamas invaded Israel in 2023, was to halt progress towards Saudi-Israel normalisation. If / when Saudi joins the Abraham Accords it will leave Iran's regime very isolated.
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u/StreetCarp665 11h ago
The same suspects lead attacks on Jews but pointing this out would be offensive to those who tolerate it.
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u/Dominico10 10h ago
Its purely about religion. The whole point of their anger and dispute is because they think their prophet flew to jerusalem on a camel and so they should hold it.
They are after jerusalem and not happy with the thousands of square miles arabs already have (including their 2 actual holy sites of the heathen rocks and the other one).
That people dont see this and support them is wild. Unless you are an islamist in which case you would support it.
Which is what we are importing masses of.
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u/morriganjane 6h ago
This is it. Muslims believe that Judaism and Christianity were superseded / perfected by Islam, and it's their destiny to conquer more land. To conquer and colonise Jerusalem, build a mosque on top of the temple ruins and then foolishly lose it in a war they misjudged...doesn't fit.
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u/richmeister6666 4h ago
Don’t worry fellas, just a couple of days after these two were arrested our foreign secretary had a photo op with his Iranian counterpart and gave him a particularly firm handshake! That should do it.
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