The age of hypocrisy

The layer, upon layer of hypocrisy surrounding the British-Egyptian and his decade old offensive social media posts, is  breathtaking.

Firstly, the widespread denial that someone can change their opinions over time and with self education. A denial that doesn’t even stand up to a quick review of our own historical views, let alone   say Mandela from ‘terrorist’ to ‘Statesman’ and ‘father of a nation’ that led to an inclusive South Africa. 

Secondly, Nigel Farage has been under fire for historical offensive comments and his failure to act on current Reform UK facebook groups advocating violence and anti-Jewish/anti-Muslim hatred. At no point has anyone thought to check Farage’s ancestry with the goal of revoking his citizenship. That appears to be only on the cards for brown and black citizens. So are we really going to have a two-tier citizenship based on race and religion? Because that is ‘segregation’ like that of the southern states of the US in the recent past. 


Thirdly, the examples of written ‘wishes’ of violence and hatred in El Fattah’s posts, remained that, ‘thoughts’ or ‘opinion’ but never acted out. More than that, retracted and apologised for. However, we have politicians of all colours, who are stoking this fire, who’ve happily sent deadly weapons to a a racist apartheid State for decades. Israel’s illegal occupation doesn’t just talk about killing, it carries it out against civilians, on a daily basis. Even when the International courts accuse Israel’s leaders of ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’, when nearly 20,000 children have been slaughtered in Gaza, these same politicians and pro-Israel lobbyists continue to support the ‘actual’ killings. The results of being actively complicit in a genocide by arming, funding and providing diplomatic cover for a neo-fascist government of anti-Arab racists and Islamophobes. 

There is no moral equivalence here. 

Let’s also pit El Fattah’s ‘words’ against the ‘actions’ of British-Israelis who’ve travelled to Israel to take part in an ongoing genocide. Have you heard a furore in the media? Politicians calling for their citizenship to be revoked? Nothing. Actual violence, documented killing and war crimes appears not worth mentioning at all. Here we have ‘the hierarchy of racism’ referred to by Martin Forde KC. 


Finally, the absurd hypocrisy of this Starmer government perusing El Fattah’s release from an Egyptian jail for criticising its government. Apparently our government sees no contradiction with detaining without trial, Palestine Action activists who have not killed or maimed anyone in their protesting UK complicity in the ‘Gaza holocaust’. Now on hunger strike, young protesters risk dying in jail in the UK, having never had a trial or conviction. 





 

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