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Telegraph
3 days ago
- Politics
- Telegraph
Rayner ignored complaints about Islamophobia adviser's ‘anti-Semitic' tweets
Angela Rayner ignored complaints about allegedly anti-Semitic posts written by a peer advising ministers on the definition of Islamophobia, The Telegraph can reveal. Baroness Gohir, one of five figures appointed to the working group on defining anti-Muslim hatred in February, previously claimed that Israel 'controls' the US in several social media posts. In April, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister, whose department is responsible for drawing up the definition of Islamophobia, alerting her to the comments. It quoted five tweets written from 2013 and 2014, which were public until at least 2022 but have since been deleted, that it claimed met the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism. In September 2013, when the US was considering whether to conduct military action against Bashar al-Assad, the then Syrian president, Lady Gohir said: 'Will Israel influence the US vote on whether to invade Syria? Are the Americans really in control of their own decisions? #JustAsking.' A week later, she tweeted: 'Who controls America's foreign policy? ISRAEL – they would be the ONLY beneficiaries of a US attack on Syria.' The following year, she shared a news article about comments made by Barack Obama issuing a warning to Benjamin Netanyahu over him not agreeing to a peace deal with Gaza. She wrote: 'US warns Israel over Palestine talks failure. I bet Israel are quaking in their boots – NOT! Don't they control US?' Also in 2014, Lady Gohir said: 'The hold Israel has over world leaders, including Muslim ones, is extraordinary that they continue to murder Palestinians and get away with it.'
Times
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Times
Arsenal looking into fan's anti-Israel tweets after his role in kit launch
Arsenal are looking into how a fan who posted a string of anti-Israel tweets came to feature in the club's official launch video for its new Adidas home kit. Faris Gohir, who co-founded Muslim Gooners, works as a parliamentary aide to his mother, Baroness Shaista Gohir, who sits on the Labour's Islamophobia Working Group. In posts on X under the username @fxris0, Gohir appeared to celebrate reports on October 7 as the Hamas-led attack unfolded that it had caused Israeli settlers to flee their homes. In response to a post that said, 'You're a sick sick man if you're enjoying this Israeli downfall', Gohir tweeted an image of a man that appeared to be lying ill on his sofa. In subsequent tweets, Gohir also appeared
