Well, I’m a broken record on this, but everyone should subscribe to Ed West’s Substack. This week, he sent out a jaw-dropping essay about how the United Kingdom gives social housing to people it knows are leaders in and fundraisers for Hamas:
Despite being a known and wanted terrorist, [Muhammad Qassem] Sawalha was allowed to settle in Britain in the 1990s and obtain British citizenship. He continued to work for Hamas, holding talks about committing terrorist acts and laundering money for the group, according to the US Department of Justice. In 2009 he signed the Istanbul Declaration which praised God for having ‘routed the Zionist Jews’, and called for a ‘Third Jihadist Front’ to be ‘opened in Palestine alongside Iraq and Afghanistan’, according to the paper.
All the while he was benefitting from Britain’s social housing system. In 2003, Barnet Council made him a council tenant and he was housed in a two-storey property with a garden and garage in the borough, where he still lives.
Two years ago, Sawalha and his wife used the Right to Buy scheme to acquire their home for £320,700, with Barnet Council giving them a £112,300 discount on its market value.
Unreal.