A mosque attended by the jihadi responsible for the death of two Jewish worshippers at a synagogue on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar—Yom Kippur—in 2025 faces a probe for preaching antisemitic sermons calling on God to “deal with the Jews.”
Britain’s charity watchdog has begun reviewing three sermons delivered in April 2024 at the Al-Sunnah Mosque in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, which were posted on its official YouTube page but later deleted, The Times reported on July 29, noting that it had alerted the Charity Commission.
Jihad al-Shamie and Mohammad Bashir, the jihadis who planned and perpetrated the ramming and stabbing attack at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation on October 2, 2025, attended the mosque and discussed plans for holy war and martyrdom, CCTV and audio footage revealed.
Islamist terrorists are not radicalized out of thin air. There is an entire infrastructure—much of it supposedly regulated by the Charity Commission—that creates them. The situation is urgent.
British-Syrian al-Shamie rammed his car into the gates of the synagogue as congregants gathered for morning prayer. After stabbing 66-year-old Melvin Cravitz to death, al-Shamie attempted to storm the synagogue. Police shot the jihadi dead, but a bullet fired by a police officer inadvertently killed 53-year-old worshipper Adrian Daulby.
Sermons Ask Allah to “Deal with the Jews”
In one video, Sheikh Al-Dukali Muhammad Al-Alim, who has been identified as the imam preaching the offending sermons, is seen imploring Allah to “deal with the Jews” and to “seize them with the seizure of the Mighty, the Powerful.”
In a second sermon, the imam asks Allah to “deal with the Zionists” and the “Zionist aggressors” and “seize them with the seizing of the Mighty.” The sermon also asks God to “grant victory to Islam and cherish the Muslims, humiliate polytheism and the polytheists.”
“God, hasten victory for our brothers in Palestine,” Al-Alim prays in a third video. “Send upon them reinforcements from You with which You will repel those who disbelieve and those who transgress. Our Lord, God, deal with the Zionist aggressors, for they cannot escape Your power.”
The Charity Commission told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI) that it is “assessing concerns raised with us about sermons that appear to have been given at Al-Sunnah Mosque in 2024.”
“We take very seriously any alleged links between a charity and extremism or terrorism—such links are abhorrent, and have no place in the sector,” a spokesperson for the regulator told FWI.
“Should we identify evidence that charity law or regulatory guidance has been breached, we will not hesitate to take robust action in line with our statutory remit.”
The watchdog explained that it had not yet made any findings and had not opened a regulatory compliance case or statutory inquiry. A formal inquiry grants it the power to intervene, freeze bank accounts or suspend trustees if it can prove that charity law or regulatory guidance has been breached.
In a July 23 press statement, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service said that Al-Shamie and Bashir frequented the same synagogue, shared antisemitic and anti-Christian messages as well as messages about the obligation of jihad and other Islamist doctrines, with Bashir discussing extermination and the pursuit of martyrdom.
FWI has contacted the mosque for comment will publish any response if and when it is received.
Britain Leads Diaspora Nations in Sharp Increase in Antisemitism
The revelations of anti-Jewish incitement underscore the concerns outlined in a report published by the J7 Large Communities’ Task Force Against Antisemitism on July 29, 2026. The report warned that the U.K. has recorded the biggest rise in antisemitic incidents in 2025 of any country with a major Jewish population outside Israel.
The report examines antisemitism in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., the U.S.A., and Ireland.
Britain was one of only three countries where reported antisemitic incidents increased in 2025, alongside Argentina and Germany, it emphasized. The 3,700 antisemitic incidents recorded last year marked a 5 percent rise from 2024, reflecting “a sustained rise in anti-Jewish racism even two years after the October 7, 2023 attack.”
On the day of the Heaton Park Synagogue attack, 40 incidents were recorded, as well as 40 the following day, the two highest daily totals of the year. Over the following week, incidents rose by 183 percent, the report stated. Total antisemitic incidents among J7 countries are up 136 percent and violent incidents are up 97 percent compared to 2022, the year before Hamas’ October 7 attack.
The Embassy of Israel to the United Kingdom express our severe concern about today’s J7 report on antisemitism. That the UK recorded the largest increase in antisemitic incidents in 2025 of any country with a major Jewish population outside of Israel is extremely alarming.… pic.twitter.com/KmYrFoOvmf
— Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧 (@IsraelinUK) July 29, 2026
“That the UK recorded the largest increase in antisemitic incidents in 2025 of any country with a major Jewish population outside of Israel is extremely alarming,” Israel’s Embassy to Britain tweeted. “Increasingly extreme rhetoric since the October 7 massacre has led to the normalisation of antisemitism within the UK, including violence against Jews.”
Landmark Study Blames Islamist Preaching for British Muslim Antisemitism
It’s not a new problem. A report published by the Counter Extremism Group (CEG) in June 2025 established the pivotal role that Islamist ideology plays in fostering and spreading antisemitism among Muslims in Britain, FWI previously reported.
The report collates the “best available evidence” linking antisemitism and Islamism, investigating the rhetoric of Islamist influencers, antisemitic sermons, discourses on jihad, and the history of Muslim-Jewish relations in the Qur’an to show how antisemitism infects British Muslims.
The 94-page document titled Islamist Antisemitism: A Neglected Hate excoriates policymakers for failing to identify “Islamist antisemitism” as a “distinct phenomenon” and for attempting to rationalize Islamist Jew-hatred as a response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The study reports that in mosques in Bradford, London, and Manchester, imams prayed for “Muslims [to] get their victory over the usurping Jews” and for the “purif[ication of] the Al-Aqsa mosque from the filth of the Jews,” while an imam at a Northampton mosque prayed for Allah to “destroy” the Jews, “count them and kill them,” and “make them war booty for the Muslims.”
Preachers in mosques promoted the theology that Allah is pleased by the killing of Jews and led prayers for the Mujahideen, the report revealed. Multiple sermons expounded a hadith, which predicts the end times during which Muslims fight and kill all the Jews.
The report found that antisemitic and anti-Israel sermons that go unchallenged by mosque leaders and trustees “create a permissive environment for radicalisation,” especially since “their sermons typically fail to draw a distinction between Israel and Jewish communities in the U.K.”
“The Charity Commission must open a formal statutory inquiry, and the police must also open an investigation,” a spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism told Focus on Western Islamism (FWI). “Islamist terrorists are not radicalised out of thin air. There is an entire infrastructure—much of it supposedly regulated by the Charity Commission—that creates them. The situation is urgent.”
