The attack on British Jews is relentless, Jewish life is being squeezed out of the UK, and the recent uproar over a property event in a synagogue in Edgware is just the latest example.

You may respond: “but, but settlements”.

And I will say this: If you have become emotionally invested in arguments over real estate from “disputed territories” in Israel being sold at a London venue, then you have fallen into a well-prepared trap that helps to squeeze Jewish life out of the UK.

This is not a joke, and it is not an overstatement.

If you are not personally looking to purchase property in Israel, then ask yourself a simple question: why did you hear about this event at all?

You heard about this event because extremist groups such as the Palestinian Youth Movement are working to suffocate all Zionist identity in the UK. Without their witch-hunt and escalation, nobody would have heard about this event to begin with.

And their opposition does not stop at the “Green Line”.

Which means you have been manipulated into “moral outrage” by those who want Israel destroyed. Not against them – but in ways that help advance their goals.

Only Israel

Let me start at the beginning. Why Israel? There are many “disputed” or “occupied” territories in our world, and some of them are actively marketed as attractive real estate investments.

Northern Cyprus is considered occupied territory by the UK, and in political circles there is enough friction to cause rebuke and a resignation when a British MP oversteps with an official visit. Yet I have Turkish Cypriot friends who freely purchase homes in Northern Cyprus and there are regular real estate events in London which offer very attractive investment opportunities there. There is a large one taking place at the London Excel in October:

How about Morocco? This is Morocco Now, a state-backed Moroccan investment campaign, openly advertising across Sadiq Khan’s TfL network. Morocco Now actively promotes development and investment in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, including places like Laayoune and Dakhla. Somehow this does not trigger national outrage.

Will outlets such as Sky News really be interested in what Moroccan property opportunities are, or are not, being advertised at the upcoming Property Investor event at the Excel in London in October 2026?

Many of the same activist ecosystems obsessively focused on Israeli property show remarkably little interest in Pakistani territorial disputes, Baloch repression or Chinese-backed development projects in places such as Gwadar – all openly marketed in the UK without national outrage.

In this image, Sadiq Khan’s TfL is seen once again helping to promote these investment opportunities through the streets of London:

This is not whataboutery, but rather a question of legal and ethical consistency. The outrage ecosystem only fully activates around Israel. Why is it only when Israeli property is involved that we see protests, political intervention, extraordinary security measures and national media attention?

Either activists and politicians genuinely object to property investment linked to disputed territory – or Israel is being treated by an entirely different standard.

Only a Synagogue

Regarding the campaign against Edgware Synagogue, here is the part many people are missing: the event was not due to be held there.

The original venue reportedly withdrew after pressure and controversy surrounding the event. Only then was it moved into Jewish communal space.

Think carefully about what that means.

Jewish-linked events become too contentious for ordinary venues. Most communities can hold ordinary events in shared public spaces without extraordinary security and political pressure. Not the Jews. The security risks, protests, logistical and reputational burden become too great. So events are pushed into the synagogue system because they are among the only places both willing – and physically secure enough – to host them.

Then the synagogue itself is held up as the accused.

The Manipulated Media

Once the activists had created the spectacle, the media machinery followed. Protest footage spread across social media. Police officers surrounded a synagogue to protect Jews attending a property event. Anti-Zionist activists amplified claims about settlement-linked material being promoted inside. A handful of arrests followed on both sides – those who seek to destroy Israel and those who simply want to be left alone, all folded into a familiar “both-sides” narrative. The outrage cycle was now fully operational.

Why do I call it manufactured? Because the organisations driving the campaign are not simply opposed to settlements beyond the “Green Line”. Groups such as the Palestinian Youth Movement reject the legitimacy of Israel itself. For these movements, Tel Aviv is no more legitimate than Ariel.

Their “illegal settlement” outrage is performative.

And then Sky News turns the activist spectacle into mainstream national controversy by publishing the story prominently on its website.

Do not bother searching Sky News archives for equivalent outrage over property connected to Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara or Chinese-backed development projects in Pakistan’s Baloch regions being marketed in London. You will struggle to find it.

Israel is treated differently and, whether intentionally or not, parts of the media are allowing themselves to become vehicles for that exceptionalism.

Sky News repeatedly amplifies activist narratives without properly interrogating the ideological movements driving them. At no point does the journalist Amanda Akass stop to ask what the actual goals of the protestors are. This is a serious omission, and it is not the first time she has made this type of error.

In February she ran a piece asking whether councillors should or should not have a position on Gaza. The underlying libels are never properly addressed – with the viewer simply being left with “genocide” as the assumed reality, and the only question becoming whether local councils should respond to it.

A year ago she fronted a piece titled “Who Are Palestine Action and What Is Happening to Them”, yet viewers were never told about the group’s long record of criminal damage and escalating extremism, leaving Palestine Action framed more like run-of-the-mill controversial activists than a movement engaged in sustained sabotage.

Taken individually, these may appear to be subtle editorial choices. Taken together, they reveal a repeated pattern of framing that softens anti-Israel extremism while amplifying controversy around Israel and Jewish communal life.

It is Time to Push Back

To my own community, our Jewish leadership, and our allies in the wider UK, I call on you all to stop being so defensive. Enough with the apologies and acceptance of second-class citizenship.

Do not get dragged into bad-faith arguments over leaflets and “disputed territories”. That is not the real issue here. The real questions are about double standards, hypocrisy and exceptionalism. Only British Jews are expected to justify our existence in ways no other community is asked to. Why are Jewish events treated differently? Why are our communal spaces increasingly forced behind security walls while others move freely through public life?

Until those questions are addressed, this should be the only discussion.

Anything else, and we are allowing ourselves to be defined by extremists who want us pushed out completely.

Because what we are witnessing is not an isolated controversy but the slow constriction of Jewish civic life in Britain. Venues withdraw. Security escalates. Public hostility intensifies. Synagogues become fallback infrastructure. Then the synagogues themselves are treated as the scandal.

And too often, parts of the media simply absorb and amplify the outrage architecture created by extremist activists without ever stopping to ask why Jewish communal life alone is repeatedly being pushed into the dock.

Just leave the Jews alone.

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