Key Highlights
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing intensifying political scrutiny after U. K.
- counterterrorism police began assessing resurfaced social media posts by Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, whom the prime minister had publicly welcomed back to Britain following his release from prison in Egypt.
- Abd El-Fattah was forced to apologize this week after the controversial posts published between 2008 and 2014 that included remarks endorsing violence against "U. S.
- soldiers, Zionists and police." The posts resurfaced shortly after his return to the U. K., triggering political backlash and a counterterrorism review, including a tweet he wrote: "From time to time I remind people that I rejoice when U. S.
- soldiers are killed, and support killing Zionists, even civilians."Abd El-Fattah returned to Britain on Boxing Day after receiving a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
