To think that Kier Starmer shouldn't be welcoming extremists into Britain?

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Reported in The Telegraph today that Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed an alleged Islamist extremist, who labelled British people “dogs and monkeys” and called for Zionists to be killed, into the UK.

The Prime Minister said he was “delighted” that Alaa Abd el-Fattah had arrived from Egypt on Friday evening after a travel ban imposed by Cairo was lifted following lobbying by ministers.

Mr Abd el-Fattah, an activist with dual British-Egyptian citizenship, previously said that it was heroic to kill Zionists “including civilians”. He urged Londoners to burn Downing Street, told his supporters to kill police and said he hated white people.

Ministers are facing calls to revoke his British citizenship, which he was granted in 2021 while imprisoned in Egypt, where campaigners described him as a “prisoner of conscience”.

Sir Keir’s tweet yesterday said how “delighted” he was that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in this country. Does that seem a reasonable stance to take for someone who has claimed at the same time to be committed to "eradicating antisemitism in the UK"?

Drought = delight.

The BBC looks like they regurgitated the gov press release going by below. Mention celebs and not the tweets.

That is why I used the phrase "roundabout way". The tweets were exposed a decade ago, but no-one in the media or the previous govrnment or the present government seemed to care until yesterday. Of course Starmer won't welcome the controversy.

This this this. Spot on.

Reasonably balanced article explains some of the background

conservativehome.com/2025/12/28/a-no-uk-citizen-left-behind-policy-is-all-very-well-but-the-case-of-one-egyptian-poses-awkward-questions-for-two-uk-governments/

To be honest, I'd never heard of this man until KS announced his delight in his arrival in the UK. What I can't understand is why all these celebs and actors were tweeting and posting their support of this man? Were they lobbied to do so? And who by? Why him? There's something very odd about this whole affair.

Starmer needs to make a statement

while supporting this man’s release due to him being a British citizen it doesn’t mean he is a man that the government should welcome with open arms and celebrate his return

If his pr team were managed they would know this and such a positive tweet would not have been released and I hope an apology is made accepting he should have known rather than a half hearted apology with lame excuses

I don’t really care who highlighted his background the PM’s team have to be on top of such messages that are released

@AlecTrevelyan006

Thanks for that link...the whole story gets stranger by the minute and you have to ask WTF were the UK politicians (of all shades) thinking...

Then there is nothing to stop the police/CPS from prosecuting him too, using that same law, and showing everyone that they treat all British citizens equally when it comes to hate speech and advocating violence. No excuse. We will see what they do now and whether justice really is meted out equally.

Nothing surprises me about Keir Starmer now.

Can he actually be prosecuted under British law? At the time of the tweets he wasn't living in the UK and he wasn't a British citizen.

Statute of limitations has passed. The posts are over a decade old.

IMO It’s usually just sloppy and CBA.

Same as people mentioning ‘Judy’ Dench.

I doubt that, at least 2 Prime Ministers has personally intervened to get him released (Sunak and Starmer)

Both thought/were told he was a jailed human rights activist.

James Cleverly is supposed to have voiced his pleasure at his release too.

Does Keir Starmer write his own tweets?

Does it matter? We all know who we're talking about.

An updated article in the Telegraph says a backlash against the decision to bring Mr el-Fattah to Britain intensified today, with Iain Duncan Smith becoming the first MP to express regret for having previously supported his case.

He was one of around 100 MPs who signed a 2023 letter to the Foreign Office urging the then Conservative government to do more to secure his release.

Sir Iain said: “I do… regret signing the letter calling for the release of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, given his views, that have since come to light, are utterly abhorrent. Had I known of these, I would not have signed the letter. I urge the police to investigate the nature of these extremist comments.”

Makes you wonder what else our elected reps of all parties have signed as supporting over the years without carrying out due diligence...

You could read the article and screenshots. But I suspect you're just pot-stirring and deliberately derailing.

Labour can’t claim tweets aren’t that important after jailing someone for one. They either care enough to check or not.

Another one with bizarre priorities.

A timeline:

In July 2010 he wrote: “I consider killing any colonialists and specially Zionists heroic, we need to kill more of them.”
In September 2010: “…there was no genocide against jews by the nazis after all many jews are left:”
In November 2010: “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.”
In December 2010: “I’m proud of being racist against whites”.
In April 2011: “I hate white people.”
In August 2011: “now my real criticism of these post police murder riots is the wrong focus, go burn the city or downing street or hunt police u fools.”
In May 2012: “If we can’t kill the officers anyway ... fine. We’ll find a terrorist cell to kill their children and torture their mothers. Peaceful is stupid.”

And he was granted British citizenship in 2022 by Priti Patel, while he was in prison in Egypt. By this time, his views were well documented.

Well they SHOULD have known. Ordinary twitter users found them easily enough, then there's what happened in 2015, already discussed, which was in the press. Shocking incompetence from successive governments.

Duplicate post!

That sadly doesn't surprise me at all.