Good evening. Lawyers acting for the largest Jewish community organisation in the UK have told the BBC to investigate complaints made against them over their failure to refer to Hamas as terrorists.
Meanwhile, a 22-year-old woman has been arrested by counter terror police on suspicion of supporting Hamas.
Lawyers acting for the largest Jewish community organisation in the UK have told the BBC to investigate complaints made against them over their failure to refer to Hamas as terrorists. Tim Davie, the director-general of the BBC, has been ordered to instruct the company to look into complaints made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews by the charity’s lawyers, after the broadcaster “refused” to review editorial guidelines.
A 22-year-old woman has been arrested by counter terror police on suspicion of supporting Hamas at a protest held in Brighton. Counter-Terrorism Policing South East said the woman was arrested on Thursday under Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. It comes after an investigation was launched focusing on a speech made by a woman at the protest in Brighton on Sunday.
Humza Yousaf’s mother-in-law has asked “where is people’s humanity?” in a tearful video from Gaza. Elizabeth El-Nakla - the mother of the Scottish First Minister’s wife Nadia - travelled from her home in Scotland last week to visit family in Gaza with her husband, Maged, but has since been “trapped” there following Hamas’s attack on Israel.
France | A teacher has been stabbed to death and two others seriously injured after a knife-wielding assailant shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he attacked a school in northern France, it has been reported.
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