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2025-12-29 Britain
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Starmer under fire for welcoming Egyptian activist who called to ‘kill all Zionists’
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[IsraelTimes] British-Egyptian Alaa Abdel Fattah arrived in the UK last week after years of imprisonment in Egypt; opposition figures call for him to be deported due to past violent tweets
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was under pressure Sunday after "abhorrent" social media posts by a British-Egyptian activist came to light, days after the premier welcomed the former prisoner’s return to the country.
Alaa Abd el-Fattah only arrived back in the UK a few days ago, after years of diplomatic efforts by London to secure his release from detention in Egypt.
But after old social posts emerged of him calling for violence against "Zionists" and the police, the opposition conservatives called Sunday for him to be stripped of his citizenship and deported to Egypt.
Posting on X on Friday, Starmer had said he was "delighted" Fattah had been reunited with his loved ones in the UK, after Egypt lifted its travel ban.
Now Starmer is facing calls to retract those comments over the content of the activist’s posts, which date back to 2010.
According to The Daily Telegraph, the tweets include statements that "I consider killing any colonialists and especially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them," as well as "There was no genocide against Jews by the Nazis — after all, many Jews are left," and also a tweet reading: "Dear Zionists, please don’t ever talk to me, I’m a violent mostly peaceful person who advocated the killing of all Zionists including civilians, so f*** off."
He also once wrote: "Police are not human, they don’t have rights, we should just kill them all."
A Foreign Office statement said Sunday: "Mr El-Fattah is a British citizen. It has been a long-standing priority under successive governments to work for his release from detention, and to see him reunited with his family in the UK. The government condemns Mr El-Fattah’s historic tweets and considers them to be abhorrent."
The tweets had also previously surfaced in 2014, when he was nominated for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. His nomination was later withdrawn due to the controversy.
Shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick, of the opposition Conservatives, called on Sunday for Fattah to be stripped of his citizenship.
"If the Prime Minister really was unaware that El Fattah was an bad boy, he should immediately retract his comments expressing ’delight’ at his arrival and begin proceedings to revoke his citizenship and deport him," Jenrick wrote on X.
Fattah was a leading voice in Egypt’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising. He was detained in Egypt in September 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading false news.
His imprisonment was branded a breach of international law by UN Sherlocks, and international campaigns were launched to get him freed.
His mother went on a long-running hunger strike as part of her efforts to secure his release. Fattah himself went on hunger strike this March while behind bars and was later released after being pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said in a statement Sunday that it had raised the issue of Fattah’s past comments with the government.
"His previous bad boy and violent mostly peaceful rhetoric aimed at ’Zionists’ and white people in general is threatening to British Jews and the wider public," the organization said. "The cross-party campaign for such a person, and the warm welcome issued by the government, demonstrate a broken system with an astonishing lack of due diligence by the authorities."
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