(Jewish News) Social media personality Mohammed Hijab appeared in the witness box at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday in a libel case he has brought against the Spectator magazine and its associate editor, Douglas Murray.
Hijab, who has 1.28 million YouTube subscribers and lives in St John’s Wood — where he told the court he had many “Jewish friends and neighbours” — is suing the magazine and Murray over an article published in September 2022. The article, it is alleged, suggested Hijab had aggravated racial tension between Muslims and Hindus in Leicester, which led to violent riots in the city that summer.
Hijab claims the article caused him reputational damage and lost him financial deals as a result. He also claims it caused him “to suffer damage to his reputation, distress, humiliation, embarrassment, hurt and injury to his feelings.”
