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A Palestinian scholar who mentioned she was ‘filled with delight’ after Hamas launched its assault on Israel claims the House Workplace has revoked her visa on the grounds of ‘nationwide safety’.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a legislation scholar on the College of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protest simply sooner or later after Hamas carried out its October 7 assault.
Throughout the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Buddies of Palestine, was filmed saying she was ‘actually filled with pleasure’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come up to now’.
She has now claimed that the UK Authorities has ‘violated her human rights’ by rescinding her scholar visa on the ‘baseless’ accusation that she is a ‘threat to public security’.
The House Workplace advised MailOnline it doesn’t touch upon particular person instances and it stays unclear exactly what revoking the visa means for {the teenager}’s future in Britain.
In a brand new video launched this week, Ms Abuqamar confirmed she can be interesting the choice and mentioned her remarks in October, which have been publicly condemned by policing minister Chris Philp, had been misrepresented.
‘My phrases have been taken out of context and so they have been framed as me supporting hurt to harmless civilians, which is totally false and fully unfaithful,’ she advised the Center East Eye.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a legislation scholar on the College of Manchester who mentioned she was ‘filled with pleasure’ after Hamas launched its assault on Israel, claims the House Workplace has revoked her visa on the grounds of ‘nationwide safety’
Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Buddies of Palestine, is pictured at a rally the day after Hamas launched its assault on Israel. She mentioned in the course of the demonstration that she was ‘actually filled with pleasure’ and ‘proud that Palestinian resistance has come up to now’
‘The UK House Workplace determined to revoke my scholar visa following public statements supporting the Palestinian proper to train below worldwide legislation to withstand oppression and break by way of the siege that was illegally positioned on Gaza for over 16 years.’
She added: ‘It is an outrageous declare that the House Workplace is making by deeming me a nationwide safety risk.
I’m a 19-year-old who has accomplished nothing however go to highschool and advocate for social justice and try to be an asset to my neighborhood.
‘So saying I pose a risk to nationwide safety is a very baseless declare.’
She advised the information outlet that her authorized staff had lodged a ‘human rights attraction’ in opposition to the choice.
Ms Abuqamar, who’s in her remaining 12 months as a legislation scholar, mentioned that earlier than coming to Britain she believed ‘freedom of expression is a elementary human proper that is cherished right here’.
She now feels that this proper does ‘not apply to ethnic minorities, significantly Muslims and Palestinians like myself’.
She argued: ‘We should reject the double commonplace within the utility of human rights by public authorities and rise in opposition to this oppression.’
A House Workplace spokesperson advised MailOnline: ‘It’s a longstanding authorities coverage that we don’t touch upon particular person instances.’
Ms Abuqamar mentioned the Authorities alleged her ‘presence within the UK threatens nationwide safety’ and the statements she made in help of Palestine ‘help extremist views’. Pictured is smoke rising from the world after Israeli military launching an airstrike on the Jabalia Refugee Camp of Gaza Metropolis on Might 15, 2024
Ms Abuqamar, who’s in her remaining 12 months as a legislation scholar, beforehand mentioned that ‘everybody’s at risk in Gaza’ and referred to as on others to ‘condemn the UK’s help for Israel’. Pictured on Might 15, 2024 is a neighborhood in Khan Yunis, Gaza that was closely destroyed within the Israeli assaults
Ms Abuqamar first made headlines after she was interviewed by Sky Information throughout a pro-Hamas occasion in Manchester final October, sooner or later after Hamas’ assault on Israel.
She advised the broadcaster: ‘We’re filled with delight. We’re actually, actually filled with pleasure (at) what has occurred…. We’re proud that Palestinian resistance has come up to now.’
Days later, she clarified that she had been ‘misrepresented’ and advised the BBC: ‘The demise of any harmless civilian shouldn’t be condoned ever and we do not condone it in any respect.’
She added that ‘everybody’s at risk in Gaza’ and even shared that 15 of her relations had been killed when an Israeli ‘missile was dropped on their three-storey residential constructing’.
Ms Abuqamar, talking at one other pro-Palestine march, mentioned: ‘We have to make it recognized that we’ll not be silenced – that any assaults or any actions or efforts to silence us from standing up in opposition to oppression and saying the reality and serving to individuals to see by way of the propaganda – that will not work anymore.’
‘We’re right here to sentence the UK’s help for Israel and its perpetration of conflict crimes.’
