{"id":2526956,"date":"2025-12-30T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-government-squirms-after-repatriating-anti-semitic-activist\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T23:44:07","slug":"uk-government-squirms-after-repatriating-anti-semitic-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-government-squirms-after-repatriating-anti-semitic-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government squirms after repatriating anti-Semitic activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-government-squirms-after-repatriating-anti-semitic-activist%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2526956&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The British government&#8217;s repatriation of egyptian-born activist Alaa Abd el fattah has sparked a political scandal after old social-media posts surfaced showing antisemitic and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-wielding-wooden-daggers-threatens-to-kill-woman-on-nyc-subway-police-say\/\" title=\"Man Wielding &#039;Wooden Daggers&#039; Threatens to Kill Woman on NYC Subway, ... Say\">anti-white statements<\/a>, including calls to kill &#8220;Zionists&#8221; and derogatory comments about British people and police. Prime Minister Keir Starmer initially welcomed Abd el Fattah&#8217;s return but later condemned the tweets as &#8220;absolutely abhorrent&#8221; and ordered a review of how the case was handled. Abd el Fattah, a long-time critic of Egyptian leaders who spent years in and out of prison, was granted British citizenship in 2021, enabling more active UK intervention. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said ministers and officials had not been briefed on the posts, prompting an investigation into information failures.Abd el Fattah has apologized for some remarks as youthful anger but then liked social posts framing the controversy as a smear and conspiracy, leading opponents to call for his deportation. The episode has heightened concerns about antisemitism amid recent attacks in the U.K. and renewed scrutiny of how the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >government balances human-rights advocacy<\/a> with public-safety and community-protection obligations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">UK government squirms after repatriating antisemitic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pentagons-education-diversity-chief-has-to-go\/\" title=\"Pentagon\u2019s Education \u201cDiversity Chief\u201d Has to Go\">anti-white activist<\/a> from Egypt<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\">British government<\/a> has become embroiled in a repatriation scandal of its own making, after championing the cause of an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/egypt\/\">Egyptian<\/a> activist for years, described as a &ldquo;top priority,&rdquo; only for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jewish-group-expresses-support-for-man-who-shot-anti-israel-attacker-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Jewish group expresses support for man who shot anti-Israel attacker - Washington Examiner\">troubling social media history<\/a> to emerge hours after his release was finally secured.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was &ldquo;delighted&rdquo; Alaa Abd el Fattah was back in the United Kingdom after spending the better part of a decade in and out of Egyptian prison. But on Monday, he changed his tune, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Keir_Starmer\/status\/2005714639196414123\">describing old tweets<\/a> as &ldquo;absolutely abhorrent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4364683\/isis-terrorists-killed-captured-large-scale-syria-attack-centcom\/\">Two dozen ISIS terrorists killed or captured after large-scale Syria attack: CENTCOM<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4364502\/uae-withdraws-forces-yemen-saudi-ultimatum\/\">UAE announces withdrawal of all forces from Yemen after Saudi ultimatum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4364559\/russia-dismisses-calls-evidence-ukraine-attack-putin-residence\/\">Russia dismisses calls for evidence as doubt mounts against alleged Ukraine attack on Putin residence<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers&rsquo; Questions session in parliament in London, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;With the rise of antisemitism, and recent horrific attacks, I know this has added to the distress of many in the Jewish community in the U.K.,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We are taking steps to review the information failures in this case.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In posts made around the time of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/arab-spring\/\">Arab Spring<\/a>, Abd el Fattah had written of his approval for killing &ldquo;all Zionists, including civilians,&rdquo; adding that &ldquo;we need to kill more of them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other posts, he describes his hatred for white people &mdash; who he called a &ldquo;blight on the earth&rdquo; &mdash; and says &ldquo;my heroes have always killed colonialists.&rdquo; He also called British people &ldquo;dogs and monkeys,&rdquo; and said police &mdash; who he believes are &ldquo;not human&rdquo; &mdash; should be killed.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-democracy activist has been in and out of Egyptian prisons since 2006 for his opposition to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi and his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.<\/p>\n<p>Abd el Fattah was granted British citizenship in 2021 on the grounds that his mother had been born in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/london\">London<\/a> while her own mother was studying in the U.K., allowing the British government to pursue his release more aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer is now supporting an investigation into how the British government came to consider the Arab extremist so valuable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd el Fattah, who was in prison for almost all of the past 12 years, speaks to his friends at his home after he got a presidential pardon, in Cairo, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo\/Khaled Elfiqi, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/YvetteCooperMP\/status\/2005713422256857539\/photo\/1\">wrote in a letter on Tuesday<\/a> to the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee that &ldquo;it is apparent not only that current and former ministers were never briefed on these tweets when they spoke publicly about this case in the past, but also that civil servants in charge of this case were also unaware.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper said the situation was particularly distressing &ldquo;in the context of rising antisemitism and recent horrific attacks against Jewish people in this country and around the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Abd el Fattah has <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/29\/british-egyptian-rights-activist-alaa-abd-el-fattah-apologises-for-hurtful-tweets\">apologized <\/a>for some of his past statements since arriving in the U.K., writing on Monday that &ldquo;looking at the tweets now &mdash; the ones that were not completely twisted out of their meaning &mdash; I do understand how shocking and hurtful they are, and for that I unequivocally apologize.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They were mostly expressions of a young man&rsquo;s anger and frustrations in a time of regional crises (the wars on Iraq, on Lebanon and Gaza), and the rise of police brutality against Egyptian youth,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I particularly regret some that were written as part of online insult battles with the total disregard for how they read to other people. I should have known better.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The apology might have been perceived as more believable if not for the fact that, within hours of making it, Abd el Fattah was liking posts describing the public scandal as a &ldquo;relentless smear campaign&rdquo; led by &ldquo;the richest man in the world[Xowner[Xowner<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a>], a couple of Middle East intelligence services, and a few Zionist organizations.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Shadow Justice Minister Robert Jenrick is among those officials demanding that the Egyptian activist be deported immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He was liking posts which people had made, in which they presented him as the victim of a Zionist conspiracy, saying that Jews and billionaires and all the usual tropes were involved to blacken his name and that he was actually innocent,&rdquo; Jenrick <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/politics\/robert-jenrick-blasts-el-fattah-for-scripted-and-fake-apology-and-demands-his-removal-from-britain\">told British outlet GB News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It suggests that the apology he put out in the U.K. was insincere, scripted, and fake. In reality, he stands by the extremist and antisemitic comments that he made in the past,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It all presents a picture that this man needs to be removed from our country because he is not conducive to the public good here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Mann, a government adviser on antisemitism, and former conservative defense secretary Penny Mordaunt published a report earlier this year alleging an &ldquo;onslaught of antisemitism&rdquo; since Hamas attacked Israel on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/october-7\/\">Oct. 7, 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/beltway-confidential\/3925563\/australia-uk-sacrifice-free-speech-over-bondi-beach-atrocity\/\">BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL: AUSTRALIA AND UK SACRIFICE FREE SPEECH OVER BONDI BEACH ATROCITY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed, and four were hospitalized at a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/europe\/multiple-people-stabbed-at-synagogue-in-manchester-suspect-shot-by-police-20251002-p5mzpr.html\">Manchester synagogue in October <\/a>when an assailant drove into bystanders and stabbed civilians on Yom Kippur.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-announces-exponential-expansion-of-nuclear-weapons-program-to-target-south-korea-u-s\/\" title=\"North Korea Announces \u2018Exponential\u2019 U.S. Expands Nuclear Weapons Program to Target South Korea\">made repeated promises<\/a> to treat combating antisemitism in the U.K. as a priority of his government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK criticised over repatriation of extremist activist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3468,"featured_media":2526957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25363394035835.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7053,5235,58824,21014,37154],"class_list":["post-2526956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-antisemitism","tag-extremism","tag-public-backlash","tag-repatriation","tag-uk-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/AP25363394035835.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2526961,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526956\/revisions\/2526961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2526957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}