Britain defends welcoming apologising activist
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Alaa Abd el-Fattah apologized for past antisemitic, violent tweets after arriving in Britain on Boxing Day, as opponents sought to strip his UK citizenship and Downing Street defended welcoming him.
Reposted by Steve Peers
I'm certainly not defending the Abd el-Fattah tweets but I really can't stomach the outrage about them from those who also insisted that Lucy Connelly was a heroic martyr for free speech and were equally outraged by her punishment.
December 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I'm certainly not defending the Abd el-Fattah tweets but I really can't stomach the outrage about them from those who also insisted that Lucy Connelly was a heroic martyr for free speech and were equally outraged by her punishment.
Reposted by Steve Peers
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Ask this question and its follow-up. Like Begum before him, Alaa el-Fattah is being used as a crowbar to shift reasonable people - even some progressives - into a space of thinking that full citizenship, if granted recently or dual, is retroactively conditional or attracts a lower class of rights.
by Marc Lynch
This is outrageous
🇪🇬 🇬🇧 A British-Egyptian activist has apologised for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against Zionists and police, as opposition lawmakers urged the UK government to revoke his citizenship.
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December 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is outrageous
‘Farage said in a letter to Mahmood: "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."’ 👀🤫
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Home secretary urged to strip activist of British citizenship
Shabana Mahmood is facing growing calls to revoke the citizenship of British-Egyptian dual national Alaa Abdel Fattah after the emergence of social media posts.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
‘Farage said in a letter to Mahmood: "It should go without saying that anyone who possesses racist and anti-British views such as those of Mr el-Fattah should not be allowed into the UK."’ 👀🤫
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lucy Connolly held up by Reform as a ‘political prisoner’ for her tweets. Yet they want this guy *deported* for his tweets.
December 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Lucy Connolly held up by Reform as a ‘political prisoner’ for her tweets. Yet they want this guy *deported* for his tweets.
by Naomi Klein
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Statement in response to historic tweets
I am shaken that, just as I am being reunited with my family for the first time in 12 years, several historic tweets of mine have been republished and used to question and attack my integrity and valu...
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I will never regret being part of the movement to free Alaa Abd el-Fattah, or writing the foreword to his extraordinary book, You Have Not Yet Been Defeated.
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
Read his honest and heartfelt response to those playing politics with his hard-won freedom.
#FreeAlaa Always.
freealaa.net/alaa-response
by Gerry Hassan
How about the Conservative Party apologise for its actions in office in the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah? Here is Liz Truss, briefly Foreign Secretary, making the case for Abd el-Fattah.
December 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
How about the Conservative Party apologise for its actions in office in the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah? Here is Liz Truss, briefly Foreign Secretary, making the case for Abd el-Fattah.
Reposted by Marc Lynch
🇪🇬 🇬🇧 A British-Egyptian activist has apologised for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against Zionists and police, as opposition lawmakers urged the UK government to revoke his citizenship.
➡️ u.afp.com/S87d
➡️ u.afp.com/S87d
December 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
🇪🇬 🇬🇧 A British-Egyptian activist has apologised for resurfaced social media posts in which he called for violence against Zionists and police, as opposition lawmakers urged the UK government to revoke his citizenship.
➡️ u.afp.com/S87d
➡️ u.afp.com/S87d
Reposted by Robert C. Richards
Since Alaa arrived in London to reunite with his family, he has come under a coordinated campaign that has dug up old tweets in an attempt to impugn his reputation and harm him.
Here, he adds context and bravely holds himself to account in a way we see few willing to do. freealaa.net/alaa-response
Here, he adds context and bravely holds himself to account in a way we see few willing to do. freealaa.net/alaa-response
Freedom For /
Information about author, Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his sister, Sanaa Seif - both imprisoned in Egypt.
freealaa.net
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Since Alaa arrived in London to reunite with his family, he has come under a coordinated campaign that has dug up old tweets in an attempt to impugn his reputation and harm him.
Here, he adds context and bravely holds himself to account in a way we see few willing to do. freealaa.net/alaa-response
Here, he adds context and bravely holds himself to account in a way we see few willing to do. freealaa.net/alaa-response