Turning Points

Oh, for pity's sake, Alaa Abd El-Fattah is obviously a British intelligence asset, given British citizenship by Priti Patel while Robert Jenrick was Immigration Minister, via a route that had had a good character test until Caroline Noakes had taken it away. At the time, Liz Truss was Foreign Secretary, taking up El-Fattah's case whenever she met Egyptian officials, and James Cleverly was Minister of State for the Middle East, North Africa and North America. Cleverly later became Foreign Secretary, when he, too, fought hard for El-Fattah. As Prime Minister, so did Rishi Sunak, and so did Boris Johnson, whose circle is merrily taking over Reform UK, to the delight of Nigel Farage.

Not only is it obvious, but it is not even unusual. For example, successive British Governments transformed Manchester into the world centre of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group that went on to bomb Manchester Arena. Britain invaded Libya in order to install such people as its new regime. From the ensuing civil war, the Royal Navy rescued both Salman Abedi, who went on to carry out that bombing, killing himself in the process, and his brother Hashem, who went on to be a key figure in the planning of that bombing, and who in April of this year threw hot cooking oil over, and stabbed with makeshift knives, three Prison Officers at HMP Frankland, members of our community here in County Durham. And then there was Libya and the then Prince Andrew. The lawyers made Andrew Lownie take most of that out. But Tarek Kaituni. Remember that name. Tarek Kaituni.

Having cultivated the Abedis and El-Fattah, MI5 and MI6 have just been granted new powers to spy on Members of Parliament without the permission of the Prime Minister. All right, they have always done that. But even the formal propriety has been removed. El-Fattah was already 40 years old when he was given British citizenship without ever having lived in the United Kingdom and despite already holding another nationality, that of the country where he resided. No nationality other than British has ever been held by the London-born Shamima Begum. Undoubtedly with the full cooperation of its British counterparts, Canadian intelligence was trafficking British girls to Syria to join the side that we were aiding and abetting there while bombing it across the Sykes-Picot Line in Iraq, where our intervention had created it in the first place. The 15-year-old Begum was married almost immediately upon her arrival in that country, and pregnant almost immediately after that. Having won, that side has bombed the Iowa National Guard, so the Americans are having to retaliate against that latest indication that no one important had read Frankenstein.

In that vein, El-Fattah would be comparable to Lucy Connolly only when anyone had acted on his exhortations, as they had in fact committed the arson with intent to endanger life that Connolly had incited. Likewise, Luke Yarwood tweeted, "Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MP houses in Parliament. We need to take over by FORCE." Stage Two of that was never attempted, but Stage One was. Only when anyone had tried to give effect to El-Fattah's effusions would he be on par with Yarwood. Ricky Jones was found not guilty by a jury.

As Pascal Robinson-Foster (Bobby Vylan) would have been. Two out of 12 randomly assembled members of the general public? Easy. So no, it did not meet the threshold for a public prosecution. The Campaign Against Antisemitism is muttering about a private prosecution, but the District Judge who quashed its attempt to summons Reginald D. Hunter has ordered that his exceptionally forthright judgment be attached to any such future application by the CAA, with which the Charity Commision needs to deal as a matter of urgency. People have been arrested for having chanted "Globalise the Intifada" or "From the River to the Sea", but has any of them been charged? Now that the CAA has been discredited, if the Palestine Action defendants were acquitted, then where would this lawfare cottage industry be? Over to those two out of 12 randomly assembled members of the general public.

After Somali immigrants in Minnesota had been demonised, all the way up or down to an attempt to remove Ilhan Omar from Congress, Israel has become the only member of the United Nations to recognise the one-clan enclave that called itself by the name of the much larger Somaliland, right by the Bab-el-Mandeb, and no less conveniently positioned for the deportation of the Palestinians. But the plan is not coming together so well in Britain, where Rupert Lowe has spotted a gap in the market. He does not treat "What about kosher slaughter?" as a showstopping rhetorical question. Instead, he confirms that he would ban that, which never involves pre-stunning, along with halal slaughter, which in Britain usually does. Yet the same Telegraph in which a non-Christian said that the King was a better Christian than the Pope because the King had not mentioned Gaza in his Christmas Address, now says that non-stun slaughter must not be banned because it would affect Jews and not only Muslims. Why does Toryland still buy the Telegraph? Then again, it barely does anymore.

Lowe, on the other hand, understands the trend that was manifest at Turning Point USA's recent AmericaFest, when platform speaker after platform speaker was floored from the floor as the rising generation demanded answers about Israeli influence in American politics, about anti-Christianity in the Talmud, about violence against Christians on the part of West Bank settlers and the IDF, and about the USS Liberty. In September, there were Israeli flags all over the Unite the Kingdom rally. But by December, a recent Reform activist had to be removed from one of Ben Habib's meetings of Advance UK because she had segued from a well-received attack on Islam to an unwelcome criticism, both of Israeli influence in British politics, and, it must be said, of the Talmud, all while quoting Charlie Kirk. In scores of seats, the difference between a Reform gain and not will come down to a tiny number of votes, but the Right is looking as fractious as the Left.