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> Sir Keir Starmer has faced criticism for welcoming Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to the UK after his release from prison, following the resurfacing of historic social media posts in which Abdel Fattah appeared to endorse violence against Zionists and police. Starmer said he was “delighted” that the dual British national had arrived in the UK to reunite with his family, while critics, including shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick and the Jewish Leadership Council, argued that such remarks amounted to a public endorsement of an individual whose past rhetoric crossed into calls for violence. The UK government has said the posts were not known to the prime minister at the time and considers them abhorrent, while maintaining that Abdel Fattah’s release was a long-standing, cross-party priority due to concerns over his imprisonment and trial in Egypt.
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I like how the British media system always try to frame Starmer as some radical soft-on-crime anti-Zionist Islamic leftist.
I mean it’s Starmer, the grey bureaucratic bore in human shape, no one cares. Boomers hate him because he wanted to cut their benefits, such is the truth
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Shortened version:
> Sir Keir Starmer has faced criticism for welcoming Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to the UK after his release from prison, following the resurfacing of historic social media posts in which Abdel Fattah appeared to endorse violence against Zionists and police. Starmer said he was “delighted” that the dual British national had arrived in the UK to reunite with his family, while critics, including shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick and the Jewish Leadership Council, argued that such remarks amounted to a public endorsement of an individual whose past rhetoric crossed into calls for violence. The UK government has said the posts were not known to the prime minister at the time and considers them abhorrent, while maintaining that Abdel Fattah’s release was a long-standing, cross-party priority due to concerns over his imprisonment and trial in Egypt.
I like how the British media system always try to frame Starmer as some radical soft-on-crime anti-Zionist Islamic leftist.
I mean it’s Starmer, the grey bureaucratic bore in human shape, no one cares. Boomers hate him because he wanted to cut their benefits, such is the truth