Dissecting the Alleged ‘Anti-Semitism’ at Manchester Airport (2024)

On 24th March 2024 at Manchester airport in the UK there was something of a kerfuffle between two Israelis and (white) British Border Force officials that has now involved Britain’s current Home Secretary James Cleverly for some strange reason (well other than jewish influence on both the British government and the reigning Conservative party is simply massive).

The BBC provides a decent summary of what occurred:

‘Claims survivors of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel faced discrimination at Manchester Airport are being investigated, the government has said.

The Jewish Representative Council for Greater Manchester said two Israeli nationals had "faced aggressive questioning" by UK Border Force officials at the airport on Sunday.

The council alleged the Nova Music Festival victims were discriminated against "because they are Israeli".

The Home Office has launched a review.

More than 360 young partygoers were shot, beaten or burnt to death when Hamas attackers stormed the festival site near the Israel-Gaza perimeter fence.

The council said two survivors "had been invited to share their experiences with the Jewish community in Manchester".

In a letter posted on X, the council wrote: "Upon arrival, when Border Patrol noticed they were travelling with Israeli passports, they were asked why they had come to Manchester.

"They were informed that they would need to be questioned.

"The only reason for their detention and interrogation was because they are Israeli."

The council said the men were detained for two hours, and that it was in possession of a video showing a male officer "speaking in aggressive terms" and in a "demeaning" tone to them.

When released, an officer said they "had to make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over here", the letter alleged.

The Jewish Representative Council for Greater Manchester said it wanted "assurances that ensure passengers with Israeli passports are able to travel without discrimination".

It thanked Manchester Airport for immediately acknowledging and recognising "the severity of the allegations contained within our correspondence," and called on Home Secretary James Cleverly and the Home Office to take up the issue urgently.’ (1)

Predictably Britain’s Israel Lobby – which is a multi-faceted series of connected groups unlike AIPAC usually with ‘Friends of Israel’ in their name – has shrieking about this in addition to the Jewish Representative Council for Greater Manchester (one also suspects that the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Community Security Trust (Britain’s ADL) and Campaign against Antisemitism are also involved behind the scenes) with one example quoted verbatim by ‘United with Israel’:

‘“This is another shocking incident where UK government employees target Jews and discriminate against them because they oppose Israel’s actions in defending itself in Gaza,” said North West Friends of Israel co-chair Raphi Bloom in a media statement.’ (2)

This typical piece of jewish hyperbole has little semblance to reality however since the video footage of the confrontation between the (white) Border Force staff and the two Israeli brothers clearly shows the brothers being politely asked to go to an interview room to be asked some further questions about their intentions while in the UK before being cleared or deported.

This is standard Border Force procedure and is usually triggered when there is some doubt, omission or discrepancy between the immigration documents and what the individual seeking entry has said. In this situation one suspects that such a situation occurred the reasons for which I will come on to later.

Now in the video of the incident provided by different jews and pro-Israeli individuals it is very clear that the Border Force personnel have politely asked the Israeli brothers to accompany them. The brothers then immediately become verbally aggressive/abusive with the Border Force officers and began loudly shouting – what exactly is unclear – but it sounds like it could be ‘Is it because I am Israeli?’ (3)

This is likely although I cannot say for certain but when we note that the Israeli brothers (and the jewish lobby’s) account has it the other way around with the Border Force officials being aggressive/abusive towards the Israeli brothers then all of a sudden this looks like more like this is a deliberate misrepresentation by the Israeli brothers and their jewish/pro-Israel supporters.

We should also note there is no evidence other than the claims of the brothers that anything was said regarding Gaza nor that their being stopped for further questioning was remotely related to their jewishness.

What the conventional narrative promoted by the brothers and their jewish/pro-Israel supporters conveniently leaves out is happily provided by the ‘Jewish Chronicle’s’ article on the subject. (4)

In that article we learn that:

‘Daniel and Neriyah, a medic in the reserves and former combat soldier respectively, took cover behind some cars with their friends when terrorists started firing missiles on the festival in the early hours of morning.’ (5)

In other words, both the brothers are Israeli military reservists – since both are within Reserve Duty in Israeli law – and as such can be considered legitimate military targets under the Geneva Convention.

Indeed, the brother’s own account of their time at the Nova festival on 7th October 2023 published in February in the ‘Jerusalem Post’ bears this out:

‘Daniel and Neriya started running with no cover for 15 meters, slaloming between the bullets, watching people die beside them. “I saw a girl that I cannot get out of my mind. I wanted to pick her up, but then I saw a bullet in the back of her neck and I knew there was nothing I could do but run.”

They finally saw a tank some 500 meters from the party, so Daniel and his brother jumped inside. “It’s 9 a.m. and I call my grandfather – he was a tank driver, so I said, ‘Hello Saba, how do you operate a tank?’ My grandfather must have just been waking up and said, “Good morning, Daniel,” but then the call got cut off. Neriya found a rifle on a dead soldier and they left the tank (“one grenade could have finished us”), where some 15-20 people were gathered around. Daniel called his former army commander, saying “come and save us!” His commander gave him minute-by-minute instructions, like “Shoot every 60 seconds so they know you’re there!” So it was his brother on one side firing, and another guy on the other using the tank gun, and Daniel trying to help the wounded in the middle.

They were fighting like this for six or seven hours. At one point a policeman with civilians in a white van drove up to them, and Daniel instructed him to make a barrier with a tank – right then an RPG hit the car, wounding Daniel with shrapnel. At one point they saw 30 people or so emerging from the forest, running toward them. “Only one made it to us,” Daniel said.’ (6)

We can see from the foregoing autobiographical account that they were hardly ‘victims’ of the Nova festival in the sense that they weren’t actually civilians but rather off-duty military reservists as is clear even from their ‘CauseMatch’ funding raising page.

I quote:

‘Brothers Daniel and Neriyah Sharabi, Nova Festival warriors that found cover with dozens of others behind an abandoned tank and fought against the terrorists with weapons and ammunition they found it.’ (7)

Hardly the ‘helpless victims’ the mainstream and jewish media are currently portraying them as: are they?

It is also worth noting that since Israel activated its military reserves in the wake of 7th October; it is decidedly odd that the brothers are not currently actively serving in Israel and instead touring the world promoting the Israeli cause.

This in and of itself would have given Britain’s Border Force legitimate cause for concern to stop and question the brothers simply because they are military reserve soldiers from a country whose military reserve is currently activated and part of combat operations.

This is especially so since in 2010 Mossad – Israel’s foreign intelligence agency – used forged British passports in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (the co-founder of the military wing of Hamas) in Dubai (8) and a major diplomatic row ensued with Britain expelling at least one Mossad officer from the country. (9)

What would have further given Britain’s Border Force genuine cause for concern is another fact only related by the ‘Jewish Chronicle’ article:

‘A month after October 7, the brothers formed a non-profit organisation called The Association for Survivors and Wounded, which is dedicated to helping the 3,000+ Supernova survivors of the Hamas massacre recover from the traumatic event.’ (10)

This passage is linked to another which gives context about how they are raising funds:

‘“They were asking us what we came to the UK to do and I started telling them that we went through the October 7 massacre and we’re here to share our story. When they heard that, they just flipped,” said Neriyah.

He said two border control officials started to “interrogate” them, asking if he served in the army and what they did. “He was absolutely trying to fail us, to find something that will mean we cannot go into the country,” he said.’ (11)

Now to translate this hyperbole into reality for you.

What the Israeli brothers told British Border Force officers was that they were active combatants in an active warzone – as they have openly admitted in the ‘Jerusalem Post’ among other places – and were in essence potentially raising funds in support of the Israeli war effort.

Naturally Border Force flagged them for further questioning since fundraising for a foreign war is a widely prohibited/closely monitored activity by security services the world over and it is well-known this is usually done via ‘charitable donations’ and when told of the further questioning required the Israeli brothers promptly… well… wigged out and began pushing the claim of ‘anti-Semitism’.

When we look at their fundraising page on ‘CauseMatch’ we note they’ve only managed to raise just shy of $88k with a goal of $200k (12) but their fundraising goal was actually $500k as of February 2024. (13) As well as the fact that the most of their fundraising has been through their ‘public speaking’ and they obviously are running short of money due to having to pay for expensive treatments for themselves as well as presumably others ‘to treat their PTSD’. (14)

It is clear that the Israeli brother’s charity ‘For the Survivors and the Wounded’ is failing financially and in desperate need of fresh funds with the brothers having tapped out their media reach with the ‘Jerusalem Post’ article. So, they are likely desperate for fresh sources of funding as well as media exposure after only raising $88k in donations in four months since they started their charity. (15)

Their trip to Manchester in order to ‘tell their story’ to the wealthy Lubavitch Chabad community there is part of their effort to attract more funding from the jewish community.

Their rather arrogant attempt to claim special privileges/engage in hasbara (‘public diplomacy’) with the British Border Force staff had an unintended side effect when the British Border Force (surprisingly) took absolutely no nonsense and hauled them off for further questioning. After they became verbally aggressive following being politely asked to follow the officers for further questioning because they’d arrogantly boasted about killing Hamas members and explained their purpose was to raise money to support one side in an active war zone is an expression of both their arrogance as jews and their seizing their opportunity to cry ‘anti-Semitism’ and get significant media exposure.

As even the Israeli brothers admit – and is further backed by the video evidence - they clearly were the aggressors and not Border Force:

‘“I have no doubt at all that we were detained because we were Israeli. We kept asking the officials why they had stopped us – was it because we are Israeli or because we are Jewish?” Daniel said.

“Of course they never admitted it, but it was obvious to us it was the only reason.”’ (16)

Then of course the ‘Jewish Representative Council for Greater Manchester’ and the ‘Friends of Israel’ groups got involved and all of a sudden what should have been an hour or two of extra vetting by Border Force has become an ‘anti-Semitism’ scandal with the Home Secretary directly involved.

The Israeli Brothers of course actually want the media exposure in order to up the donations to their cause. My guess is that the ‘review’ initiated by Border Force and the Home Secretary will find there was no ‘anti-Semitism’ involved at all, that the officers did their job correctly but will couch that conclusion with a sop to the jewish community where jewish groups get to ‘train’ Border Force about ‘anti-Semitism’ and how jews are a ‘hidden minority’.

The losers of this will of course be the British people, but then the British government cares less about its own people than random Israelis shaking a charity tin.

References

(1) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68662991

(2) https://unitedwithisrael.org/report-nova-festival-survivors-harassed-by-uk-airport-staff/

(3) For example: https://twitter.com/addicted2newz/status/1772362418494021857

(4) https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/israeli-brothers-detained-by-border-force-saved-150-lives-on-october-7-and-were-raising-money-for-victims-ji4w77xf

(5) Ibid.

(6) https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784800

(7) https://causematch.com/maman/forthesurvivorsandthewounded

(8) https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140419-why-are-we-surprised-that-mossad-used-fake-passports/; https://www.haaretz.com/2013-02-12/ty-article/.premium/does-the-mossad-still-use-the-passports-of-olim/0000017f-f5e3-d887-a7ff-fde763ff0000

(9) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/mar/23/israel-mossad-agent-expelled-passport

(10) https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/israeli-brothers-detained-by-border-force-saved-150-lives-on-october-7-and-were-raising-money-for-victims-ji4w77xf

(11) Ibid.

(12) https://causematch.com/maman/forthesurvivorsandthewounded

(13) https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784800

(14) Ibid.

(15) https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/israeli-brothers-detained-by-border-force-saved-150-lives-on-october-7-and-were-raising-money-for-victims-ji4w77xf

(16) Ibid.