Anti-Semitic slurs of Whitehall’s race guru
Pro-Palestinian poet hired to advise civil servants attacked ‘Zionists’ and Israeli ‘white supremacists’
A LABOUR Party member who gave civil servants antiracism lessons compared Israel to ‘white supremacy’ and wished death for ‘Zionists’, it emerged yesterday.
Mizanur Rahman oversaw a training session at the Cabinet Office in 2019 entitled An Inclusive Britain despite writing antiSemitic posts on social media.
He replied to a message in 2014 about a soldier in the Israel Defense Force (IDF) who lost his hands in a Hamas attack by saying: ‘hopefully he, and all IDF soldiers and zionists, will lose more than just their limbs... their lives !!!! ’
In another misspelled post, Mr Rahman, who calls himself Mizan the Poet, wrote: ‘#israel has #no right to exist. Israel was founded on #terrorism, ethnic cleansing and practices antisemitism as #palestinians are #semetic.’
The Jeremy Corbyn supporter also tweeted images of inmates at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany next to one of Palestinians at a checkpoint in the West Bank. He wrote: ‘The Zionist government, with the support of the majority of Israel’s population, are themselves perpetuating a holocaust against the Palestinian people.’
The posts were uncovered by The Jewish Chronicle, including the tweet ‘Israel = white supremacy’. Mr Rahman complained to Labour this month after it banned him from its list of potential council candidates. He said the decision was based on ‘institutional Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism’.
After the Cabinet Office workshop, he tweeted that he had spoken on ‘institutional racism/Islamophobia, the role of the media, Prevent, detention centres and other ways that racism manifests in society’.
Also in 2019, Mr Rahman said he had led an event at the Ministry of Defence in which he spoke against ‘British Israelis joining the Israel Defense Force and committing human rights abuses in Palestine’.
In 2018 he attended a march in London at which flags were flown for the terrorist group Hezbollah, The Jewish Chronicle reported. During the rally, one speaker called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’.
When ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone quit Labour over his claim that Hitler supported Zionism, Mr Rahman called it ‘a historical fact’.
Asked whether he still believed all Zionists should die, he tweeted this week: ‘The answer to that is no. I personally would like a peaceful solution to the conflict. With that said, the Palestinians are living under an occupation and so therefore... Palestinians have a legal right to an armed struggle.’ A Cabinet Office spokesman said it had ‘recently adopted an increased due-diligence process for guest speakers’, including social media checks. The MoD and Labour did not reply to requests for comment.
‘A legal right to an armed struggle’