I reported the other day that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was "delighted" that Alaa Abd El-Fattah was "back" in the U.K. after having been imprisoned in Egypt, which was condemned by groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, who call him a pro-democracy activist. Perhaps the charges against him were bogus, but Starmer said it had been a top priority to bring British citizen El-Fattah "home" where he could unite with his family.
Not everyone in Britain was delighted to have El-Fattah in the country, seeing as he had a history of social media posts calling the killing of any colonialists, and especially zionists, heroic, adding that "we need to kill more of them." He also posted, "Humanity will not be redeemed until we commit genocide against all white people.”
> Dual national due to his mother
— Adam Sellers (@YisraelChaiAdam) December 27, 2025
> Never lived in Britain.
> Gifted British citizenship in 2021
> Torches headquarters of political opponents
> Calls Brits ‘Dogs and Monkeys’
> Calls for police to be murdered
> Wants to kill all Zionists
Labour - Welcome home, Alaa 🥹 https://t.co/eBm8kf09Nc
El-Fattah says his words calling British people "dogs and monkeys" has been twisted.
'Zionists are out to get me', says Alaa Abd El-Fattah as he claims his words calling British people 'dogs and monkeys' have been 'twisted'https://t.co/2GApofc0aU
— GB News (@GBNEWS) December 30, 2025
GB News reports:
Mr El-Fattah claimed his social media posts, in which he described the killing of Zionists as heroic and described British people as "dogs and monkeys", had been "completely twisted out of their meaning".
Sir Keir Starmer said he was "delighted" with Mr El-Fattah's return to the UK on Boxing Day, following his pardon by Egyptian President Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
He had been imprisoned for five years on charges of spreading false news, in a process branded a breach of international law by UN investigators.
However, the Prime Minister has since condemned the social media posts as "absolutely abhorrent" and said the Government was "taking steps to review the information failures in this case".
Rupert Lowe is a particularly based member of Parliament.
Receiving a huge amount of abuse for stating that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is not British.
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) December 30, 2025
I'll go again.
Alaa Abd El-Fattah may have a British passport, but he is certainly NOT British.
And he is definitely not the only one.
He's not British - he's said so himself.
— Maxim DeLargo (@banthebbc) December 30, 2025
Never lived in worked in or contributed to Britain, plus the fact he hates it.
— Scott Lewis (@WarriorSpeech28) December 30, 2025
Definetley not British by any means.
He is Egyptian. The only reason this argument is happening is because his mother was born in London in 1956. The British Nationality Act is to blame for this and I am sure he is not the only one.
— Andy The Gabby Cabby (@gabby_cabby) December 30, 2025
I guess Starmer didn't know about El-Fattah's social media posts until after he'd been returned to the U.K., after which Starmer wasn't so delighted.
Oh yes I can completely understand how those words can be twisted silly me 🙄
— Tessieroyalsevensamurai 🇬🇧🇮🇪 (@TessaOutlook) December 30, 2025
"I meant that in a good way."
— Jeremy E. Neuman (@JerOHMee) December 30, 2025
This what @alaa said in Arabic regarding Egyptian police: “If we can’t kill the officers, let us find a terrorist cell to kill their children and torture their mothers.”
— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) December 29, 2025
I honestly can't say that his detention by Sisi was unjust. This man is a terror.https://t.co/7vjnavfoCZ
Not only that, he has deleted the English tweets that could affect his UK status, while keeping the Arabic tweets. This means his criminal mindset is still operative, and all that he recently did was an act of manoeuvre.
— Ahmed Othman (@Lawyer_AOthman) December 29, 2025
In the U.K., you can be sentenced to 31 months in prison for "anti-migrant sentiment" on social media, but apparently, El-Fattah's posts about killing Zionists and white people, and police, are OK.
Only our idiot government could make Egypt look responsible and sensible by comparison. You couldn’t make it up.
— Incognito 🎗️ (@ScoobyLiveInLA) December 29, 2025
He’s an import of the worst kind and to say one is “delighted” he is here is disgusting by @10DowningStreet @YvetteCooperMP @DavidLammy utterly incompetent by them and their civil servants.
— DBK (@DianaBlackburne) December 30, 2025
It was very odd of Starmer to say he was delighted to have El-Fattah "back" when he's apparently never been to Britain. To Starmer, he's just another British citizen.
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