Egyptian dissident should be deported from UK, say Tories - "The Conservatives have called for a British-Egyptian activist to be deported and his UK citizenship to be revoked after social media messages emerged of him calling for Zionists to be killed. Sir Keir Starmer has been criticised for saying he was "delighted" by Alaa Abdel Fattah's arrival in the UK after being freed from prison in Egypt, but it is understood he was unaware of the messages."
Time to jail Tommy Robinson and outlaw Reform to keep Jews safe
British-Egyptian dissident apologises for tweets as Tories push for UK deportation - "Mr Abd El Fattah said he took allegations of antisemitism "very seriously" while arguing some of the posts had been "completely twisted out of their meaning"... A government source said Mr Abd El Fatteh arrived in the country as a British citizen and there were no legal avenues available to block his entry, even if officials had been aware of his previous social media posts. A 2016 Supreme Court case found that nationality law was incompatible with human rights safeguards because it discriminated against children from mixed unmarried backgrounds. As a result, in 2019 the then-Conservative government used a 15-minute debate in Parliament to end a requirement for children of one British parent to show they were of "good character", before they could be given nationality. That political decision, backed by the Labour opposition, paved the way for Mr Abd El Fatteh and others like him to be later registered as British because his mother had been born in London ... In one resurfaced tweet, from 2012, Abd El Fattah appears to say: "I am a racist, I don't like white people". In another, he says he considers "killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them". He is also accused of saying police do not have rights and "we should kill them all"."
Context is only a defence if you push the left wing agenda
British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Lucy Connolly got 31 months in prison for a tweet she had deleted. She was released in August after serving 9 months in prison. Meanwhile Starmer and a bevy of celebrities are championing this guy."
British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "Dude is kinda pasty for a guy that doesn’t like white people."
British-Egyptian dissident, Alaa Abd El Fattah, who tweeted 'I am a racist, I don't like white people,' says he 'apologises' as Tories push for UK deportation : r/NewsWorthPayingFor - "These fucking assholes scream about Israel "killing civilians" then in the next breath they turn around and say that killing Israeli civilians is ok because they're "colonialists". The absolute lowest of the low. The West needs to stop tolerating these people."
"West Stops Tolerating
Bro, it's a fairytale. If you label Palestinian flag - you're automatically right and can call for hate on Israel and white man hate - no one will judge you "because you supports the victims". World is so fucked up"
Meme - Michael Lucci @Michael7ucci: "Do you still have those laws to put people in jail for mean tweets?"
Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa: "yes, I consider killing any colonialists and specially zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them"
"police are not human they don't have rights, we should just kill them all aslan"
"fuck that, sounds like u need more fear. random shooting of white males should convince them racism costs lives"
"I'll switch to something else, advocting killing police, hating white people, assassination plot against saad el din ibrahim"
"dear international phd student, by the way I'm a racist, I don't like white people so piss off"
"british fooled us and gave us bad land, we then exploited egyptian fala7in to work the land for peanuts"
"so the brilliant british dogs and monkeys really think terrorists will reveal their plans on twitter"
"u telling me british history is not pure BS? do they tell them about how they enslaved a fifth of humanity? massacred millions?"
"to play a jew u have to have a polish accent playing a north african jew just doesn't work it's too complicated for them"
"jewish colonialism of palestine is a recent thing large part of population is recent migrants it is possible to kick them all out"
"all of palestine is occupied, egyptians do not recognize the legitimacy of the state of israel within any borders"
"i must confess i want a drone of me own, promise to only use it to shoot zionist weddings"
Meme - Avi Yemini @OzareliAvi: "Why is Keir Starmer celebrating Alaa Abel El-Fattah, whose violent hatred is all over the internet? And why is the BBC whitewashing his record with a puff piece that omits every one of his extremist posts?"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "dear zionists please don't ever talk to me, I'm a violent person who advocated the killing of all zionists including civilians, so fuck of"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "can we get back to killing zionists please? they seem to be more violent when we stick to non violence"
Alaa Abd El Fattah: "also why from time to time I remind ppl that I rejoice when US soldiers are killed, and support killing zionists even civilians"
15 year old tweets made by the person in question are meaningless. But unsubstantiated 33-50 year old school anecdotes about Nigel Farage reveal who he really is
Starmer condemns ‘abhorrent’ posts by ‘extremist’ Egyptian activist he welcomed to UK - "Abd El-Fatteh appeared to call British people “dogs and monkeys”, said killing “Zionists” was “heroic”, denied the Holocaust, praised Osama Bin Laden, declared that “police are not human” and should be killed, and that he “hates” white people."
Robby Starbuck on X - "So releasing a guy who hates White people, who wanted White men shot, who advocated rape for Western women and who hates Jews was one of your top priorities? These are from his X posts. You wanted him back from Egypt that bad? Explain why Keir. Is he your pet or something?"
Sohrab Ahmari on X - "The reason you see me tweeting a lot about this case is that I know a lot about El-Fattah and his family. My first book was a hopeful boosterish anthology on the Arab Spring (which I now cringe at; in my defense, I was 24). The research process had me delving deep into the Arab “secular” dissident scene. Especially Egypt’s. I soon saw that El-Fattah and his sisters are extremely violent in their mentality. It’s not one or two tweets. He tweeted almost nothing except calls to torture, murder, etc. — Jews, Americans, journalists (both local and international), Egyptian police officers, and even their kids and mothers. The sister Mona, as you can see from her orgasmic response to Oct. 7, is cut from the same cloth. These are dangerous people. I hope there’s some way to at least transition Alaa out of Britain."
JamesHeartfield on X - "Arab Spring was in principle a good thing, but sadly it showed us that there are still, broadly, two alternatives in the Arab world, Muslim Brotherhood and fossilised National liberation movements , neither of them all that good."
Unquiet Possum on X - "In practice nearly all popular revolutions end in disaster. Early in the 1970's I was an idealistic Jeffersonian teenager reading three newspapers a day beside Marx and Mao. By 1981 or so the news had made me a reactionary. Tens of millions killed and no one freer."
Melissa Chen on X - "I fell for the Arab Spring being a freedom movement narrative and once I had to contend with the truth, the last shred of my unreconstituted liberalism evaporated"
Melissa Chen on X - "Sorry but an apology is not going to cut it. Alaa El-Fattah's words are not merely "hurtful." They are outright MURDEROUS. The number of times he has said that he wanted to kill someone or a group - white people, Jews, gays, etc. - is on record, and it comports with his long history of openly supporting political violence since the Arab Spring in Egypt. These are not youthful mistakes or "things taken out of context" as he claims. For years, his whole public persona was wrapped up in justifying and promoting violent political action. That's literally WHY he was in jail in Egypt. He doesn't have the impulse control to hide what he thinks about certain races (he particularly hates whites of English, Dutch and German descent and Zionists), and he's consistently made deep commitments to violent revolution. This is the person successive British governments campaigned for, granted citizenship to, and treated as a "TOP PRIORITY." This is why deportation should still be on the table. If someone's track record shows consistent endorsement of violence, especially in a way that could threaten public safety or national security, a half-hearted "sorry" doesn't erase the risk or the damage. Britain has every right to protect its citizens by revoking his status and sending him back, no matter how much he tries to rewrite his past. Next, the nation must correct the rules that allowed this to happen. Alaa is not British and never deserved citizenship."
Ashley Rindsberg on X - "Compare these two @Wikipedia entries—"Tommy Robinson" and "Alaa Abd El-Fattah." It's a masterclass in information manipulation. Two entries. Two British men (in El-Fattah's case, at least nominally). Both subject of UK government action. Yet the entries could not be more different. The first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Alaa Abd El-Fattah describes him as "an Egyptian-British software developer, blogger, political activist and former political prisoner." Sounds lovely! The lead goes on to tell a heart-rending story about the persecution of a valiant freedom fighter. According to Wikipedia, El-Fattah was imprisoned for staging political protests. He protected women at a rally from police violence. He's a blogger, a software developer, an inspired political polemicist. A wonderful son. A father who missed his child. He even won prestigious awards! The lead makes no mention of the fact that El-Fattah, has incited the murder of Jews, whites, British police officers, and children—including the torture of their mothers. It doesn't mention his Holocaust denial or his homophobia. Here's just a sample of what El-Fattah has written over the years:
+ “If we can’t kill the police officers, let us find a terrorist cell to kill their children and torture their mothers”
+ "The Islamic Group was right. We must kill all police."
+ "No medicine can reverse God's will. He should subject his anger at [God] for creating those dirty homosexual[s']."
Despite this, the Wikipedia article's all-important lead section makes no mention of El-Fattah's vile hatred of gays or his open support for ISIS. Instead, you get a tiny little sentence at the very bottom of the lead about "controversial" social media posts. This is what AIs train on and what @Google feeds to the public. Indeed, Google actually quotes the first sentence of the Wikipedia article directly in its "Knowledge Panel" about El-Fattah. Ask Google "Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah?" and the response is word-for-word pulled from Wikipedia: "Egyptian-British software developer, blogger, political activist and former political prisoner."
Now look at the entry on Tommy Robinson. The very first, defining sentence calls Robinson "a British far-right activist and one of the UK's most prominent anti-Islam campaigners. Robinson has a history of criminal convictions." Wow—what a difference a political (or religious?) affiliation makes! But don't stop there. The next paragraph calls Robinson a "fascist," using Wikivoice to assert this as fact, not perspective or opinion. The rest of the lead is basically a rap sheet beaten into encyclopedia form. It includes not just a litany of convictions but also cites open, ongoing investigations. (So much for Wikipedia's beloved presumption of innocence.) Robinson's entry has unsubstantiated allegations that he is a Kremlin agent, that he spread Russian disinformation, and that he promulgates COVID conspiracy theories.
The Wikipedia entry is a dossier and hit piece all wrapped up into one neat little informational package. The framing is alarming, the sentiment is overwhelmingly negative. But for the jihadist who wants people like me (and, probably, you) murdered? It's a lovefest. This isn't just about Wikipedia. It's how the information ecosystem works—how a politically motivated view of "truth" gets concretized into plain "fact." This is just one example, but there are thousands more like it. For more Wikipedia investigation, follow @npovmedia ."
Only far right extremists think Wikipedia is biased
Strip ‘extremist’ of citizenship before Egyptians do, Starmer urged - "Britain must strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship before Cairo removes his Egyptian one, Sir Keir Starmer has been told... Mr Fattah’s sister had praised the “imagination” of the October 7 attackers and once suggested that acts of violence by Hamas could be justified... Mohammed Maree, of the Egyptian Centre for Thought and Strategic Studies, said he believed the Egyptian authorities were considering revoking Mr Fattah’s citizenship. Mr Maree cited growing public anger in the country, which had only intensified since he apologised for his comments in Britain, despite having refused to do so in Egypt. He said: “I believe that demands to revoke Egyptian citizenship from Alaa Abd el-Fattah are likely to escalate in the coming period, in light of the growing state of anger in Egyptian public opinion. “Alaa Abdel el-Fattah’s apology, which he was forced into, was motivated by preserving his British citizenship and attempting to weather this wave of pressures demanding the revocation of his British citizenship and his deportation. “It is an apology he did not dare to offer to Egypt, nor to the army and police officers whom he previously incited to kill, and which is indeed documented.”... Mona Seif, Mr Fattah’s sister, claimed that armed resistance in “occupied” land was “understandable” on the day after Hamas terrorists had killed more than 1,200 Israelis. Ms Seif, who lives in London, according to her social media profile, also called the October 7 attacks an example of “Palestinian resistance” and suggested that they should not be seen differently from Ukrainian resistance against Russia. On the morning of the attacks, in 2023, Ms Seif shared photographs of Hamas militants flying into Israel by paraglider to her X account, saying they showed a “special kind of imagination”. A day later, she said: “My personal belief – within the occupied, besieged and bombarded by land, armed resistance is understandably one of the main forms of resistance. Beyond the boundaries, only non-violent methods should be endorsed in solidarity.” On the same day, Ms Seif claimed it was “hypocrisy” to condemn the October 7 attacks while supporting Ukraine’s right to defend itself against the Russian invasion. In 2011 and 2012, Ms Seif posted the phrase “f--- Israel” in two separate posts attacking the country. On Tuesday, she strongly criticised social media users who had highlighted some of her other historical tweets as well as her brother’s remarks. She wrote: “So now silly bantering between me and friends saying ‘I will kill you’ over silly joking tweets are now circulating to claim I am a violent person! Are you out of your minds?” Ms Seif, whose public online profiles state that she works as a cancer scientist, said criticism of her brother’s past comments amounted to “rotten political battles”, adding that she wanted the family to “recover in a safe space with our children”... Alex Hearn, the co-director of Labour Against Anti-Semitism, said: “Mona’s apparent celebration of Hamas’s massacre of innocent civilians while it was happening is disgusting. It exposes yet another layer of failings by the British system. “As a result, an extremist with terrorist supporting family members was embraced by politicians and celebrities alike.”"
Patrick Christys: 'We shouldn't just deport Alaa Abd El-Fattah, we should deport his sister as well' - "she even condemned Amnesty International yes, Amnesty International, for calling on Hamas terrorists to stop their violence... There are also what appear to be quite a lot of threats to kill on her social media. Now she says that it was silly bantering with friends. Do you tweet stuff like that? I'm not sure you do. But just when you thought David Lammy couldn't look any more foolish, whilst he was in opposition, she was holding a sign actually next to him, urging then Foreign Secretary James Cleverly to bring her brother home. Well, he was home, wasn't he, because he was in Egypt. And there's no evidence that he's ever been to Britain before he landed here this year. But this is the thing I find most hilarious. The El-Fattah family have got everything they want and more from the British state. Successive governments have bent over backwards for no apparent reason to give her brother and his sisters British passports, to release him from an Egyptian prison and to promote the family, to help them. Her brother arrives in Britain. What does his sister Mona do? Well, she appears to call for the release of the Palestine Action hunger strikers immediately. It's a classic, isn't it? You give these people everything and then they want even more... we need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that some people did actually know how extreme they are, but they ignored it because it didn't suit their narrative."
Labour ministers spark outrage after posing for photos with 'extremist's sister' who denounced calls for Hamas to end violence - "Labour has been met with outrage after images emerged of senior party figures posing with an 'extremist' British-Egyptian's sister who denounced calls for Hamas to end violence against civilians... past tweets have emerged of Ms Seif attacking Amnesty International after they urged both the Israeli Government and Hamas to stop attacks against civilians in the Middle East. In a post dating back to 2012, she said: "You don't ask an occupied nation to stop their "Resistance" to end violence. SHAME ON YOU!!!" Other posts from 2011 emerged where she threatened to "kill" several people in social media posts. "
The Left-wing Luvvies who lined up to support an Egyptian ‘extremist’ - "Fattah referred to “British dogs and monkeys” and said, among other things, “I f---ing hate white people”, “I am a racist, I don’t like white people” and “I consider killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them”"
As an Egyptian, I know this truth: deranged anti-Semitism is normal in the Arab world - "For the past 14 years, my professional life has been dedicated to a single discipline: mitigating risk. In this field, one anticipates the usual obstacles – a scarcity of resources, a failure to grasp the scale of a threat, or a simple deficit in technical know-how. These are the standard hurdles of the trade. Since relocating to Britain in 2016, however, I have been confronted by a challenge of an entirely different order. It is a cognitive and moral blind spot so profound it has redefined my understanding of risk itself. In this country, we excel at recognising the peril of anti-Semitism. We meticulously document the alarming rise of the world’s oldest hatred. We convene conferences, host government briefings, and launch parliamentary inquiries to dissect and decry it. We do everything, in fact, except the one thing that truly matters: applying our vigilance where the threat is most acute and culturally entrenched. You see, I was born and raised in Egypt. My formative experience with anti-Semitism taught me a harsh lesson that many in today’s West struggle to comprehend: it can be the norm. It can be not merely the province of a fringe, but the lingua franca of a nation, the subtext of its media, the unspoken foundation of its foreign policy, and a thread woven deep into the fabric of its collective national identity. It can be ambient, pervasive, and normalised to the point of invisibility for those within it. It was true in Europe once, but remains the case in much of the Arab world. Consequently, since arriving in Britain, my advocacy has been consistent and, I believed, self-evidently sensible: we must direct enhanced resources and tailored strategies to combat anti-Semitism within communities where it is not an aberration but the default setting. If epidemiologists identify a neighbourhood with a rampant infection, they do not distribute resources evenly across the entire city; they target the outbreak at its source. Yet, proposing this focused, risk-based approach is penalised in Britain. I have been hounded, attacked, and slandered by an increasingly influential cadre of commentators and activists. Their core argument, delivered with a patronising smile, is a doctrine of false equivalence: “Every society has its extremists”, they insist. “They do not represent the whole. Egypt, Britain, we’re all the same beneath the skin”. This is a comforting fiction, and a dangerously naïve one. It dismisses not only my lived experience but a mountain of empirical, indisputable evidence, from state-sponsored media output to educational curricula and the rhetoric of mainstream religious institutions across the Arab world. It confuses the existence of prejudice in Britain, where it is rightly treated as a social disease to be eradicated, with another country where it is not even recognised as a sin. This refusal to acknowledge a qualitative difference is not liberalism; it is a form of civilisational suicide. It is the reason, that instead of applying increased scrutiny to cases like that of the Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, he was able to naturalise and become a British citizen. It explains why, at a time when the BBC diligently investigated historical allegations against Nigel Farage, it platformed Alaa’s sister, Mona Seif, without the most basic due diligence into her social media, which appeared to glorify Hamas’s October 7 atrocities. This same naivety is why Britain’s political leadership, including the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, could repeatedly engage with Alaa’s family and with Alaa himself during his imprisonment in Egypt, yet seemingly fail to detect their documented history of extremist and anti-Semitic sentiments. It is why Britain looks the other way when individuals with such profiles incite virulent hatred. This approach privileges a feel-good narrative of universal sameness over the uncomfortable truth. It leaves the most toxic strains of hatred to fester unchallenged, while we pat ourselves on the back for condemning their milder cousins in our own backyard."
The more celebrity supporters a cause attracts, the more likely it is to be terrible - "Just as no one shouts “Is there a doctor of humanities on the plane?” when a passenger takes ill, no one trying to achieve peace in the Middle East or bring democracy to Burma or end drought in the Zambezi basin has ever banged a table and yelled: “Dammit, we need a Bafta winner and we need one now.” It’s not just that actors and musicians believe themselves well-placed to opine on global affairs, it’s the deference shown to their semi-researched and vibes-based perspectives by lawmakers and the news media. Parliament is on the brink of nodding through assisted suicide – and a recklessly ill-designed version at that – partly because the Prime Minister promised former television presenter Dame Esther Rantzen he would make time for MPs to consider it. Far from keeping it under wraps that British doctors could soon be doling out killer drugs to vulnerable patients as a favour to the PM’s celebrity pal, Keir Starmer has boasted about keeping his word to the That’s Life! presenter, who is suffering from terminal lung cancer. . Dame Esther deserves our sympathy but she should not be able to hijack the legislative process simply because she once had a hit television series. That she enjoys such influence is not the result of a surfeit of empathy among decision-makers and opinion-formers. It is because she is echoing the priorities and preferences of the progressive establishment that her outsized involvement in the legislative process is framed in sympathetic terms. Celebrity interventions are deemed legitimate only if they are considered progressive by the political and media class. This is why any public figure who emotes inarticulately about transwomen being women, typically accompanied by an expletive or two by way of reasoned argument, can expect to be written up as “brave” and “compassionate” – while an essay from JK Rowling dispassionately explaining why women’s sex-based rights must be upheld will invariably be reported as “divisive” or “insensitive”. In fact, to demonstrate the absurdity of allowing celebrity political witterings to influence public policy, you need only flip the ideological tables. It’s probably safe to assume Starmer will not be promising Christopher Biggins Parliamentary time to debate his recent call to restore the death penalty. Nor should he... In the 2004 satirical movie Team America: World Police, the Janeane Garofolo puppet explains: “As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers and then say what we read on television like it’s our own opinion.” This is about right. Most actors, even very good ones, aren’t about to be confused for Bertrand Russell, and their political analysis is typically midwit The Rest is Politics slop. There could almost be a rule in this: the more celebrity supporters a cause attracts the likelier it is to be a terrible idea"
Former No 10 aide says case of Egyptian activist welcomed to UK became a 'running joke' in Whitehall - "The case of an alleged Egyptian extremist who was welcomed to Britain by Sir Keir Starmer became a “running joke” among Downing Street advisers, a former No 10 aide has revealed. Paul Ovenden said the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah was “a totem of the ceaseless sapping of time and energy by people obsessed with fringe issues” and demonstrated “the sheer weirdness of how Whitehall spends its time”... Mr Ovenden said the case demonstrated how Britain had become beholden to what he called the “Stakeholder State”, which he appeared to blame for Labour’s missteps in government. The former adviser, who was a close ally of Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir’s chief of staff, said it amounted to a “complex coalition of campaign groups, regulators, litigators, trade bodies and well-networked organisations”. “The Stakeholder State ferments between the NGO [non-governmental organisation] and the campaign group, the celebrity letter-writing campaign and the activist lawyers,” he said. “It is given voice by political podcasts where everyone violently agrees. It is canonised through a corrupted honours system.” His intervention comes after Sir Keir used his New Year’s message to say he shared voters’ “frustration about the pace of change” since Labour was elected. Soon after entering No 10, the Prime Minister said “too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline”. Mr Ovenden’s criticisms of Whitehall echo those made by Dominic Cummings when he was chief of staff to Boris Johnson. The former adviser accused Whitehall of blocking attempts by ministers to build new homes and infrastructure, and said Sir Keir has to take it on if he is to have any hope of reviving the Government’s fortunes. “If you want to imagine a typical scene in the Stakeholder State, it is a government elected on a promise to build an entire generation of housing and infrastructure in just five years spending time and money lobbying itself to water down those commitments through its own quangos,” he wrote. Mr Ovenden, who resigned last year after messages from 2017 emerged in which he repeated sexualised jokes about Diane Abbott, also appeared to criticise government policy on welfare, the economy and net zero. “We don’t have to keep picking the pockets of the productive parts of our economy in order to fund inflation-busting pension increases for millionaires or an unsustainable welfare system,” he wrote. “We don’t have to strangle small businesses at birth with regulatory burdens. “We don’t have to fatten the pockets of wind-turbine operators by paying them not to produce energy. We don’t have to import anti-Semitic Islamists who wish us harm. “And we certainly don’t have to treat British citizenship as a scrap of paper. On all this and more, we can simply choose not to.”"
