David Farrar: Own goal by Starmer

Alaa Abdel Fattah has been a prisoner in Egypt on dubious charges, and may have been tortured there. It is right and proper for the UK Government to advocate (as he gained British citizenship) for his human rights to be respected.

But Starmer did a huge own goal by going beyond that and declaring that he is delighted Alaa Abdel Fattah is in the UK and that his case has been a top priority for the Government.

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Because to welcome Fattah in the same week as a huge conspiracy to kill Jews in the UK was detected was very tone deaf to put it mildly. Here is a collection of quotes from Alaa Abdel Fattah:

• “Will no one form an armed organization and randomly assassinate (Egyptian) Interior Ministry officers and be rid of them?”

• the 1981 assassination of then-Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was “a service to the nation,”

• “there is a critical number of Israelis that we need to kill and then the problem is solved.”

• 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

• f**k 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

• I’m a racist, I don’t like white people so piss off

• I must confess i want a drone of me own, promise to only use it to shoot zionist weddings

• Because no medicine can reverse god’s will. he should subject his anger at good for creating those dirty homosexual.

• described British people as “dogs and monkeys”.

• dear zionists please don’t ever talk to me, I’m a violent person who advocated the killing of all zionists including civilians, so f**k off

• Unfortunately, the Iranian nuclear project isn’t dedicated to wiping out the white man

• I shoul never ever ever allow myself to read Thomas Friedman again, now all I can think of is joining Bin Laden and killing a few Americas

• Go burn the city or downing street or hunt police u fools

• There was no genocide against Jews by the Nazis – after all, many Jews are left

• Is it possible for someone to assassinate Diaa Rashwan? Or if it has to be peaceful, peacefully, let’s slit his throat—the important thing is he stops talking.

• The extermination of whites is a desirable thing

• humanity will not be redeemed until we commit genocide against all white people

• The Islamic Group was right; we must kill all police officers without any discrimination

Reading his history of advocating for violence and death makes you firstly think that maybe the Egyptian authorities were not being all that unreasonable in jailing him.

But the most astonishing thing is how the 100 UK celebrities all campaigned for his release treating him as a hero, and the UK PM did the same – and none of them ever thought that maybe someone should check out his tweets.

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders