Head of Iranian Jewish community calls Israel ‘shameful’

The head of Iran’s Jewish Community has said that the Israeli regime’s claims about defending Jews are a shameful lie after it bombed a synagogue in Tehran.

Head of Iranian Jewish Community on Rubbles of Israeli-Hit Synagogue:

“Shameful” “All the Israeli regime’s claims about defending Jews are nothing more than a shameful lie,” said Rabbi Younes Hamami Lalehzar, calling Israel’s attack on a synagogue in a residential area an… pic.twitter.com/vjB4q3s6nr

— Ounka (@OunkaOnX) April 8, 2026

The synagogue was one of the religious centres of Tehran’s Jews, dating back to the Pahlavi II era. Israel completely destroyed it in an airstrike.

Iran’s Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that:

the centuries-old Torahs were likely heavily damaged, and their fate is currently unknown.

Western media complicity

However, this attack has barely made the news, unlike every other attack on synagogues or jews across the world, which the mainstream media has rinsed for every second it can.

Remember the amount of coverage @LBC gave to 4 burned out ambulances? Do an hour on this @IainDale, @ShelaghFogarty, @NickFerrariLBC, get an Israeli spokesperson on and ask them tough questions on it. Why don’t you do the bare minimum & just mention it. https://t.co/BZvUvwM8Fe

— John Stealer (@JohnStealer) April 9, 2026

The IOF has claimed the synagogue was ‘collateral damage’. But can you imagine if Iran, or any resistance force, claimed the same thing?

Here is something that you WILL NOT SEE on the BBC. https://t.co/2UzG9XBQWm

— Mark Seddon (@MarkSeddon1962) April 8, 2026

Western media would have a field day.

The only Western news outlet that appears to have covered the attack is CNN. However, that coverage is minimal and comes nowhere close to even mentioning the hypocrisy of Israel bombing a synagogue.

Corporate media seems to collectively ignore the millions of jews globally who condemn Israel’s war crimes.

The British media including @BBCNews generally IGNORE the millions of Jews globally who condemn the actions of Israel

Not least @BBCr4today. Perhaps they will speak to THESE Jews in post BELOW? https://t.co/bxWJi8afYd

— Tom London (@TomLondon6) April 8, 2026

Places of worship – including Iran’s Jewish synagogues – bombed

From Mosques and churches in Gaza, to the Synagogue in Tehran – considering that Israel is supposedly ‘God’s chosen country’, it seems pretty hypocritical that it holds absolutely no regard for bombing places of worship.

Within the last 2 years, israel has destroyed mosques in Gaza, churches in Lebanon and now synagogues in Iran. https://t.co/k4XyBS7x7j

— Husam Kaid (@Husam_Khaled1) April 8, 2026

Additionally, international humanitarian law provides strong protection for places of worship.

According to Scientific Research:

The protection is included in the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the event of Armed Conflicts, Additional Protocol I and II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Statute of the International Criminal Court

Places of worship are recognised as protected places under the definition of “cultural properties”. This means no countries or armed groups should attack or destroy them.

This is a war crime.
Regardless of religion, bombing a civilian place of worship contravenes the Geneva Convention.
Same happening in Lebanon.
Gaza is a bomb site.
Will someone please take a stand on terrorism dressed up as “war”?
I’m done with old men ruining it for children. https://t.co/n7Pc1OG5ng

— Jenn Knussen 💜 (@JKnussen) April 8, 2026

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You can imagine the antisemitism screams if resistance fighters took out a synagogue as ‘collateral damage’.

If a synagogue in Tel Aviv had been hit by an Iranian rocket it would be front page news across Western media with much wailing. Because Israeli is the perpetrator there’s 🦗🦗🦗 https://t.co/G8Ej8vcTk3

— Dr Sassenach (@Dr_Sassenach) April 8, 2026

Yet no one is condemning Israel.

Why is no one condemning Israel for this anti-Semitic attack on the Iranian Jewish community during Passover? https://t.co/5tCljndP0Y

— Wardāh Wilkinson 🇿🇦 (@WardahWilkinson) April 8, 2026

Israel is supposedly the ‘Jewish state’ – but is more than happy to bomb jews in another country.

Stop attacking other Jewish people and their synagogues. For a start. https://t.co/T9xcQRfQIB

— Barry Saturday 🇺🇸 (@Barry_Saturday) April 8, 2026

All you have to do is look at the thousands of people which police forces globally have arrested and chastised for ‘antisemitism’ – simply for standing up for Palestine.

Protesters for Palestinian lives/rights protest near a synagogue holding an event selling real estate in West Bank settlements: ANTISEMITIC ATTACK! JAIl/DEPORT THEM! BAN PROTEST!

Israel totally destroys a major synagogue in Tehran, burying the torahs in the rubble: meh. https://t.co/qVMGdX2rS5

— Lara Friedman (@LaraFriedmanDC) April 8, 2026

Meanwhile, Israel buries centuries-old Torahs with its missiles.

The reality is, Israel does not care if you are Jewish or not.

Israel does not care of you are Jewish or not. It’s really that simple. https://t.co/TYBU8doFvf

— Lee Gaze (@shinjukutheif1) April 8, 2026

Additionally, shattering historic temples and killing the inhabitants appears to be the exact opposite of ‘freeing the Iranian people’.

Iran’s Jewish community: attacked

Israel is weaponising Jewishness to hide its war crimes.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Attacking synagogues is antisemitic. Unless Israel is attacking them, and then it’s ‘collateral damage’. And the media is letting the genocidal terrorist state off the hook – unlike when the synagogues of white Jews are attacked in Europe.

Is it because Iranians are brown? Because ultimately, we know that the only lives that Israel and the majority of the West appear to care about are white people.

Feature image via Al Jazeera English/YouTube