UK: Muslim guest speaker of Justice Ministry: Jews 'to get in the queue behind Muslims

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The Ministry of Justice has been blasted for hosting a guest speaker who said in now-deleted social media posts that 'Jews need to get in the queue behind Muslims', in response to concerns about anti-Semitism.

Shreen Mahmood, an ambassador for World Hijab Day which encourages women to wear the head covering for a day, spoke at an event run by the department's Muslim staff network on February 6.

A Whitehall insider described her inclusion in the event as 'reprehensible', The Telegraph reports, after it emerged that she had made a series of tweets appearing to diminish Jewish people's experience of anti-Semitism.

 

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In comments made in 2018, while the Labour party was gripped by an anti-Semitism scandal, Ms Mahmood seemingly downplayed the level of racism being faced by Jewish figures.

More recently, following the October 7 attacks on Israel, she allegedly retweeted a post that read: 'Under international law, Palestine, as occupied territory, has every right to defend itself just like Ukraine does.'

Shreen Mahmood, an ambassador for World Hijab Day, spoke at an event run by the department's Muslim staff network on February 6