If you’re a foreigner who hates Jews, should you be allowed to move to Britain? For me it’s a no-brainer: absolutely not. The safety and dignity of Britain’s Jews count for infinitely more than the ‘rights’ of a racist migrant. Does the Labour government agree? Does it agree that overseas anti-Semites are not welcome here? We are about to find out.
There are disturbing reports emerging that a man from Gaza with very iffy views has arrived in Britain. He goes by the name Abu Wadee. He is said to be an ‘influencer’ with a substantial following on social media. Last week he reportedly posted a video of himself sporting a keffiyeh while crammed onto a dinghy in the English Channel. ‘Thank God, we arrived in Britain’, the video caption said.
It is thought that Wadee is in his mid-30s and originally from Khan Younis. He is believed to have been among 235 migrants picked up by a Border Force boat from four dinghies in the Channel last Thursday. And according to the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) he has a track record of spouting vile views – including calling for the slaughter of all Jewish people.
The CAA has pored over Wadee’s alleged social-media output. He would seem to be a keen supporter of Hamas and a self-proclaimed member of the so-called ‘Tyre-Burning Unit’, a militant gaggle of extremists known for hurling firebombs at Israelis manning the Gaza border. He is also alleged to have posed with AK-47s, leading even the Independent to wonder out loud if an ‘alleged Palestinian gunman’ has just slipped into Britain.
It’s his seeming Jew hatred that is most chilling. He is alleged to have posted a video in which he says, ‘Oh Allah, punish the Jews and those who support them…’ We must find a final solution for these people, he reportedly said: ‘Oh Allah, kill them all and do not leave a single one of them.’
Kill them all. If the CAA is right and Wadee really did express such genocidal hatred for Jews, then he must be removed from the country immediately. No delays, no legal hold-ups. If a newcomer to these shores, especially an illegal one, is found to harbour an apocalyptic loathing for the Jewish people, then he must be expelled from these lands, instantly and permanently.
As the shadow home secretary Chris Philp says, Wadee sounds like a ‘dangerous anti-Semite’. The Home Office must tell us what will be done about him, says Philp. He’s right. It is good that Wadee was reportedly arrested this morning. The government absolutely cannot dither on this. It must act swiftly and firmly and let the nation know that defending British Jewry from external threats is a key moral priority in the 21st century.
The Wadee scandal shines a harsh light on Britain’s border crisis. Who exactly is coming here? And what foul, regressive ideologies are they bringing with them? It is so clear now that having porous borders doesn’t only corrode our national sovereignty but our national security too. It is a scandal that virulent forms of anti-Semitism may have leaked from the Middle East into modern Britain courtesy of officialdom’s failure to police our frontiers.
‘Thank God, we arrived in Britain’, the video caption said
We need to get real about immigration from those benighted parts of the world where anti-Semitism flourishes. For me, that was the most alarming thing about that judge’s decision last month to let a family from Gaza settle in Britain under the Ukrainian refugee scheme.
It is not ‘Islamophobic’ to say there’s a difference between Ukrainian migrants and Gazan migrants. Gaza has been ruled by a virulently anti-Semitic government for 20 years. It was from Gaza that the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust was launched on 7 October 2023. Studies have found that anti-Semitism is ‘prevalent’ in many schools in Gaza. No, this is not to say all Gazans are anti-Semites – but surely we owe it to Britain’s Jews to be vigilant about the arrival of people from that strange and tragic corner of the globe?
Many on the ‘anti-racist’ left cheered that judge’s decision. Clearly virtue-signalling now takes precedence over cool-headed analysis. But what is the price of their ‘virtue’? It is potentially the endangerment of Britain’s Jews as more people with unenlightened attitudes arrive on our shores.
Kemi Badenoch got a load of flak last year when she said there are too many people coming to Britain ‘who hate Israel’. But she was right. A frothing loathing for the world’s only Jewish state is a marker for bigotry and backwardness. It is very often a marker for anti-Semitism itself. Going forward, Jewish security should be made into a key goal of Britain’s immigration policy. First step: kick Wadee out.
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