By Monica Showalter
A few days ago, U.K., Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer triumphantly announced that he had ‘rescued’ an Islamist ‘democracy activist’ and ‘political prisoner‘ with a gargantuan hatred for Jews and the West from an Egyptian prison where he was serving time for inciting violence on social media.
I’m delighted that Alaa Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones, who must be feeling profound relief.
I want to pay tribute to Alaa’s family, and to all those that have worked and campaigned for this moment.
Alaa’s case has been a top priority…— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) December 26, 2025
When news of just what was in Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s social media posts got out — about killing Jews, raping white women, calling for more terror attacks on the West, calling for burning down No. 10 Downing Street, declaring white people ‘not human,’ and other horrible stuff, Starmer claimed he had no idea about the posts and primly called them ‘abhorrent.’
Now Egypt says he was lying:
🚨🚨Important update: Cairo has outright rejected Starmer’s reported assertion that he was unaware of Alaa’s record of incitement to violence, maintaining that British officials were explicitly briefed on the matter.
Late tonight, I received a message from a well-connected… https://t.co/KP7L4NEhPF— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 29, 2025
It seems credible that Egypt would have told them all about it as the Brits made their pleas to let this extremist out. They did, after all, put him in jail for a reason. And they undoubtedly resented the backstory here, that Britain would be holding up Egypt as a bad guy on the human rights front over this innocent guy who only wanted to rape white women and kill every Jew.
This tweet, done by an Egyptian Muslim convert to Judaism whose bio says he’s a ‘researcher,’ tells us a lot about the thinking in Egypt:
🚨🚨Important update: Cairo has outright rejected Starmer’s reported assertion that he was unaware of Alaa’s record of incitement to violence, maintaining that British officials were explicitly briefed on the matter.
Late tonight, I received a message from a well-connected… https://t.co/KP7L4NEhPF— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 29, 2025
Not only would the Egyptians be appalled at Starmer’s lies after they know they told him about them, they are now considering yanking Abd El-Fattah’s Egyptian citizenship, leaving Britain stuck with him as U.K. law prohibits the deportation of stateless persons, even if they are stateless for a good reason. That sounds like an appropriate response for a regime that doesn’t take terrorism as seriously as Egypt does.
They knew that after the outcry about Abd El-Fattah’s tweets, Starmer emphasized that Abd El-Fattah was a British citizen, even though he’s never lived in Britain, nor sworn allegiance to the crown, (which is a requirement), nor even asked for it — the citizenship was handed to him in 2021 by parliament based on his mother’s British citizenship in a bid to get him out of the Egyptian jail.
🚨🚨I have had enough of the despicable, sickening lies.
Sky News is suggesting Starmer was celebrating Alaa Abd El Fattah’s “return” from Egypt. What return, for the love of Gd?????!!!!!!!!
The terrorism-loving extremist never called Britain home. He never lived here. He was… https://t.co/XIpdmDG6AY— Khaled Hassan (@Khaledhzakariah) December 28, 2025
It doesn’t look like Starmer can talk this away, and Abd El-Fattah’s wan, half-hearted apologies are solely because he got caught. The calls for Starmer to resign have now gotten louder from his Tory opponents, who knew he was already in political trouble even before this fiasco.
One can only hope that it’s enough to finish Starmer off politically. Britain deserves better.