UK PM Starmer–praised Egyptian extremist faces counter-terror probe over resurfaced tweets

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing intensifying governmental scrutiny aft U.K. counterterrorism constabulary began assessing resurfaced societal media posts by Egyptian-British activistic Alaa Abd El-Fattah, whom the premier curate had publically welcomed backmost to Britain pursuing his merchandise from situation successful Egypt.

Abd El-Fattah was forced to apologize this week aft the arguable posts published betwixt 2008 and 2014 that included remarks endorsing unit against "U.S. soldiers, Zionists and police." The posts resurfaced soon aft his instrumentality to the U.K., triggering governmental backlash and a counterterrorism review, including a tweet helium wrote: "From clip to clip I punctual radical that I rejoice erstwhile U.S. soldiers are killed, and enactment sidesplitting Zionists, adjacent civilians."

Abd El-Fattah returned to Britain connected Boxing Day aft receiving a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Starmer, who had campaigned publically for his merchandise and described the lawsuit arsenic a precedence for his government, said helium was "delighted" erstwhile Abd El-Fattah arrived successful the country.

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Pro-democracy activistic Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who was successful situation for astir each of the past 12 years, speaks to his friends astatine his location aft helium got a statesmanlike pardon, successful Cairo, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP)

That invited has since go a cardinal constituent of controversy, though Starmer aboriginal condemned the historical posts arsenic "absolutely abhorrent" and said the authorities was "taking steps to reappraisal the accusation failures successful this case."

An authoritative Counter Terrorism Policing spokesperson said authorities person received aggregate nationalist referrals related to Abd El-Fattah’s humanities posts and that they are present being assessed by specializer officers wrong the Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU), according to GB News.

GB News reported that the posts nether reappraisal see worldly successful which Abd El-Fattah allegedly described the sidesplitting of Zionists arsenic "heroic" and appeared to telephone for unit against police. One station is reported to person stated, "We request to termination much of them." Another station is alleged to person read: "By the mode I’m a racist, I don’t similar achromatic radical truthful piss off.

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper ordered an urgent reappraisal into what she described arsenic "serious accusation failures" successful the lawsuit and said neither she nor Starmer were briefed connected the societal media posts earlier Abd El-Fattah arrived successful Britain. Cooper said she "very overmuch regrets" the government’s nationalist invited and that it "added to the distress felt by Jewish communities successful the U.K."

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Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to be the play Prime Ministers' Questions league successful parliament successful London, Wednesday, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Speaking to Fox News Digital, Alan Mendoza, enforcement manager of the Henry Jackson Society, attacked the government’s handling of the case, saying: "The British Government is blameworthy of incompetence astatine the precise slightest for having embraced an activistic with specified an evident and appalling societal media record."

He continued, "The information that el-Fattah’s nationalist commentary was not checked by successive administrations allowing him entree to archetypal citizenship and consular enactment and past admittance to the U.K. shows however shambolic our institutions person become. There is thing British astir this antheral beyond a quirk of administration, and helium should beryllium stripped of his presumption instantly and deported connected relationship of who helium truly is: an force of this state."

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Much of the worldly present nether scrutiny dates to betwixt 2010 and 2012, a play during which Abd El-Fattah was an progressive fig successful Egypt’s protestation movement, which led the mode to the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Mohamed Morsi seizing powerfulness and becoming Egyptian president.

In his apology, Abd El-Fattah said the posts reflected "expressions of a young man’s choler and vexation successful a clip of determination crises," including wars successful Iraq, Lebanon and Gaza, and rising constabulary brutality successful Egypt. He said helium peculiarly regretted posts written during online disputes and acknowledged helium "should person known better."

Police Superintendent John Loveless addresses the media successful Huntingdon, England, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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Opposition lawmakers reason the occurrence exposes a broader nonaccomplishment of vetting and judgment. Conservative MP Robert Jenrick has dismissed the apology arsenic "scripted and fake" and called for Abd El-Fattah’s removal from Britain, according to GB News.

Reuters contributed to this report.