Government & Politics

‘Serious questions to answer’: PM condemned for celebrating arrival of activist who once urged killing of Zionists Responding to communal anger over the reaction to Alaa Abd el-Fattah, an FCDO spokesperson said: 'It's been a long-standing priority under successive governments to work for his release, and to see him reunited with his family in the UK.'

(Jewish News) Senior government ministers including the prime minister have provoked fury by welcoming the arrival to the UK of an activist who had previously called for “all Zionists” to be killed. Dual British-Egyptian national Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a democracy activist in […]

Clerics & Preachers

Italian court frees imam who praised October 7 attack The ruling overturning Mohamed Shahin’s detention has sparked a backlash from the Italian right, which has accused judges of undermining public security.

(European Conservative) An Italian appeal court has ordered the release of a Turin-based imam who had praised the October 7 Hamas pogrom in Israel, ruling that his remarks did not pose an immediate threat to public security. Mohamed Shahin, a 46-year-old Egyptian […]