No surprise here. From the JC:
The newly elected President of the National Union of Students has sung the praises of a Jew-hating cleric and raised money for a Muslim advocacy group widely accused of having sympathised with terrorists.
Shaima Dallali has also labelled a cleric critical of Hamas a “dirty Zionist” and posted a video of anti-Israel protesters calling for an intifada.
The Union of Jewish Students has called for an urgent meeting with Ms Dallali while Labour Against Antisemitism warned that “anti-Jewish racism in the NUS is spiralling out of control”, adding that public funding should be cut unless there was profound change.
She will take over from outgoing president Larissa Kennedy, who is herself facing calls to quit her two year term early over her suggestion Jewish students could segregate themselves to avoid watching anti-Zionist performer Lowkey at an NUS concert.
Ms Dallali was elected by NUS delegates on Monday despite the revelation last week that she tweeted in 2012: “Khaybar Khaybar O Jews … Muhammed’s army will return #Gaza”, in a reference to a massacre of Jews in the year 628CE.
She offered an unreserved apology for the 2012 post, which she said was an “unacceptable” reference made as a teenager.
However, since then Ms Dallali has continued to post incendiary messages.
In April, 2020, Ms Dallali wrote that for Ramadan she was raising money for Cage, a Muslim advocacy group which drew outrage in 2015 when its research director hailed notorious Isis terrorist Jihadi John as a “beautiful young man” who was “extremely kind and gentle”. Last year, the Commission for Countering Extremism last year urged the government to crack down on Cage.
On its website, Cage denies accusations that it is an apologist for terrorists, saying its goal is to “simply ensure that the pursuit of justice is carried out fairly.”
On Twitter Ms Dallali has called Jordanian preacher Dr Waseem Yousef a “dirty Zionist” after he wrote that Hamas was launching rockets from between residents’ homes and was making “a graveyard” for children in Gaza.
And in a 2018 article she sung the praises of Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi - who was expelled from Britain, the US, France and Germany – calling him the “moral compass for the Muslim community at large”. In a sermon on January 9, 2009, Qaradawi lashed out at Jews, including calling on God to "kill them, down to the very last one."
Between 2018 and 2019, Ms Dallali was a project manager for pro-Palestinian advocacy group Europal.
In 2017, Europal was reported to be organising a trip to the Commons for preacher Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, who dismissed the Holocaust as a “fairytale exploited by Israel to capture international solidarity”.
Meanwhile the UCU - the trade union for university academics - is right behind the trans activists.
My former trade union @UCU has a motion at congress proposing to "congratulate Sussex UCU for their solidarity with student protests against "gender critical" views". https://t.co/pNa3MKWHmS pic.twitter.com/PwDA8F83Ds
— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) March 30, 2022
Happy days on campus!
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