Rabbi Arnold Saunders, a candidate for the UK’s Conservative Party, was invited to speak at Masjid Bilal Mosque in Manchester last month, where worshippers hounded him regarding his stance on the Israel-Hamas war, footage of the event revealed. “Don’t come to the house of Allah and try to engage with us when we know that when you’re in your own places you’re saying it is good that they ,” a worshipper told Rabbi Saunders in reference to civilians killed in Gaza by IDF forces. has claimed that nearly 38,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict so far.

However, the ministry does not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. Saunders was repeatedly asked to condemn the IDF and questioned if he voted for a ceasefire - despite not currently being an elected official with the capacity to vote on such an issue. “We don’t want to engage with you people, we don’t want to engage with you justifiers of ,” the worshipper said, in comments labelled as “blood libel” by the Campaign Against Antisemitism movement.

"You are a snake"WATCH the threatening way Rabbi Arnie Saunders was treated when he was invited to the Bilal Mosque in Prestwich, Manchester in his role as the Conservative candidate for Bury South by the mosque elders. That he was allowed to be abused, intimidated and have his..

. The worshipper, according to the footage, did not mention that hostages held captive in Gaza nor the over 1,200 people killed on October 7 by Hamas terrorists. Th.