by Matt Goodwin
The “British citizen” from Hamas — and the warnings Westminster has ignored for twenty years.
Britain provided refuge to the senior bodyguard of the leader of Hamas. Then it gave him citizenship. And now he is accused of plotting a major terror attack against Jews.
Yes, you read that right.
Yesterday, thanks to The Sunday Times, we learned that Britain granted asylum and then citizenship to a former bodyguard of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, before that bodyguard went on to “plot” a major terror attack against Jews ahead of the second anniversary of the October 7th massacre.
“Mr X”, who has also been given anonymity, not only served in the personal security team of the leader of Hamas in Gaza but was given ‘refugee status’ despite people knowing he had worked for the Hamas leader, was the son of another senior Hamas official, and had already been arrested for operating a tunnel into Gaza.
Despite all of that, he was still, astonishingly, given sanctuary by the British state and able to operate under cover as an ‘IT consultant’ in England’s suburbs, where he is accused of collaborating with Hamas terrorists and plotting to attack Jewish community centres, Israeli diplomats, and pro-Israel demonstrations across Europe.
Cue the outrage.
For much of the last twenty-four hours, social media has been flooded with journalists, politicians, and members of the British public venting their outrage.
How could this happen? What on earth is happening to Britain? How could the British state have let this person slip through the net?
But you know what? I’m not surprised at all.