Bushra Shaikh, a political commentator who has appeared on popular shows such as “Good Morning Britain,” called for the destruction of Israel in her social media posts and suggested the Israel-Hamas war should be reframed by the media as a religiously-motivated slaughter of Muslims by Jews

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English News Anchor Claims Jews Are ‘European’, Not Indigenous to Israel

October 15, 2024

A popular British media personality and leader of an anti-racism organization unleashed a tirade targeting both Israel and Jews on X/Twitter on Sunday.

“One state solution. Palestine. And send this European problem back to f—king Europe,” Shaikh tweeted.

After a flood of X/Twitter users accused Shaikh of antisemitism for suggesting that Jews be deported from Israel, the pundit doubled-down by making the baseless claim that Israeli Jews “are killing Muslims” in Gaza rather than targeting Hamas terrorists.

“Jews are killing Muslims. Please start saying it correctly,” Shaikh said.

Shaikh, who runs a British so-called “anti-racism” organization called “Run Racism Out,” then asserted that Jews in Israel are of European descent and not connected to the Middle East.

“European Jews changed their names to hide their origins in order to claim supremacy over Palestinian Arab lands. These people are the biggest charlatans on this planet. Bunch of lying scumbags,” Shaikh wrote.

The media personality did not mention that about half of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi — Jews who trace their ethnic origins to the Middle East and North Africa. Meanwhile, 21 percent of Israel’s population identifies as Arab. Conversely, Arab and Muslim countries in the region expelled roughly 900,000 Jews between 1920-1970.

Shaikh’s comments were roundly condemned on X.

“The antisemitic meltdown of Bushra Shaikh continues,” tweeted Israeli-American philanthropist Adam Milstein.

“Bushra is calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews in Israel, whose population is a majority Mizrahi and from the Middle East, not Europe,” posted another social media user.

“Open advocacy for the ethnic cleansing of Jews,” posted another user.

In the year following Hamas’s Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,200 people in southern Israel, many leaders of anti-racism organizations have often found themselves in hot water, with critics accusing them of antisemitism and hating the Jewish state. Such detractors of diversity and anti-racism initiatives argue that they have actually intensified antisemitism in institutions by promoting the narratives that Jews are “white” and “privileged.”

Many leaders of these organizations have suggested that the Hamas massacre be reframed as a “resistance” to Israeli “oppression.” Some have demonized Zionism and openly called for the destruction of the Jewish state. According to new reports, staffers of the Condé Nast media company filed a lawsuit after its former diversity chief allegedly blocked Jewish employees from forming an employee resource group. The staffer’s also reportedly complained of what they described as the publishing giant’s staunch anti-Israel stance.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/10/15/british-media-personality-says-israel-hamas-war-should-be-framed-european-jews-killing-muslims/

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