Compare Amnesty-UK's messages after synagogue and mosque attacks. In both cases, Muslims are the ones that must be protected. ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, October 06, 2025

Compare Amnesty-UK's messages after synagogue and mosque attacks. In both cases, Muslims are the ones that must be protected.

Here is how Amnesty-UK responded to an arson attack on a mosque in the UK:

Amnesty UK condemns the horrific attack on the East Sussex Mosque this weekend. We offer solidarity to Muslim communities who will be shaken by this act of violence.

This follows months of increasing hostility to racialised and migrant communities in the UK – boosted by anti-migrant rhetoric across the political spectrum and in the media.

According to @TellMamaUK there has been a significant rise in the number of Islamophobic hate cases in the United Kingdom between June and September 2025.
Not including the most recent horrific attack, there have been 17 reported cases that have involved attacks on mosques or Islamic institutions in this time period.
We are watching the real-life consequences of outpourings of hatred.
A year after the 2024 racist riots, there is an urgent need for a reset in our national debate.

The overall impression is outrage, and Amnesty blames the arson on increasing hostility to minorities by bigots. It ties it to increasing Islamophobia. It says that hatred leads to attacks like these.

Here is how the same group reacted to the deadly synagogue attack last week:

Amnesty International UK is deeply saddened by the news of this morning's attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in north Manchester. We condemn this horrific act of violence that has taken the lives of two innocent people and injured many more.

Our hearts are with the Jewish community and all those affected by this appalling attack on such an important and holy day in the Jewish calendar.

Acts of violence have no place in our society and only deepen division among communities. It is essential that politicians, leaders and the media ensure their actions in the following days do not stoke hatred and division further.

We must focus on the solidarity and humanity that connects us all.

- Sacha Deshmukh, CE Amnesty International UK

In this case the emotion is sadness, not anger.

Unlike the reaction to the mosque attack, Amnesty-UK doesn't blame anyone in particular. They don't mention rising antisemitism in the UK in recent years. They don't consider that anti-Israel protests might contribute to antisemitism.

Look carefully at who they are worried about stoking hatred: "politicians, leaders and the media." The word that is missing is "activists." This means that instead of warning about increased antisemitism - a word that is noticeably missing from the tweet - Amnesty's instinct upon hearing about an attack on Jews is to protect Muslims from backlash!

The tweet was posted after the anti-Israel, pro-flotilla protests in England that day. But Amnesty didn't warn the protesters not to do anything that might be used as justification to attack Jews. On the contrary, Amnesty is all for protests, and incitement to violence in (left-wing) protests are (as far as I can tell) never condemned. On the contrary, they oppose any restrictions on protests - including, implicitly, incitement to violence against Jews like "globalize the intifada."

For both tweets, Amnesty sent out a message to protect the Muslim community from violence - and for neither did they call to protect the Jewish community from violence. For Muslims, the violence is preventable; for Jews, the violence is simply a sad part of life that they must learn to live with.

Even when Amnesty tries mightily to sound like it is unbiased, the bias cannot be denied.