According to our dear Eloise, Tahra definitely wasn't being anti-Semitic and was in fact implying that the government was sacrificing jews.
Lets look at what Tahra actually posted on Facebook:
“Watch the footage of people trapped in the inferno with flames behind them. They were burnt alive in a Jewish sacrifice.”
and the other one she was found guilty of:
“Jews have always been the ones behind ritual torture, crucifixion and murder of children, especially young boys, as a way of atoning for their sins in order to be allowed back into Palestine.”
Yep, I can see that she was actually implicitly implying it was the government...
Anti-lockdown activist Tahra Ahmed jailed over Facebook post blaming Jews for Grenfell fire | News | The Times
Heres a couple of choice quotes from the Times article:
During her trial, she had doubled down on her claims about “the cabal, I call them Talmudic, I call them Zionists” whom she blamed for satanic abuse. She insisted that she was concerned about bankers and owners of big corporations and the media rather than the majority of ordinary Jews. She said she had “so many amazing Jewish friends” who were anti-Zionists.
A pre-sentence probation report expressed concern that Ahmed lacked insight into her behaviour and was more concerned about her own situation than the impact of her offending on others. She continued to minimise and justify what she had done and was adamant that Zionists were criminals, making it reasonable to conclude her ideology had an effect on her conduct.
A character reference from one of her sisters, provided to the court, contained what the judge described as “very unfortunate” remarks. These included the comments “there seems to be a special law which protects the Jewish people” and “one rule for them, another rule for us. Is that fair?”
And from another article,
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Among the conspiracy theories she promoted online — and on the stand during the trial — were that Grenfell was “owned by a private Jewish property developer just like the twin towers. I wonder how much Goldman [Sachs] is standing to make in the world’s most expensive real estate location [Kensington].” Asked at the trial whether the Jews were to blame for the fire, she said that she did think that, “just like they bombed Gaza every couple of years.”
She described the Holocaust as the “holohoax”, denied that millions of Jews were murdered by the Nazis and claimed that “Hitler and the Germans were the victims of the Jewish conspiracy to destroy Germany.” She believes too that the 9/11 terror attacks were faked by Jews, and wrote in yet another post: “All the leadership of ISIS is directly recruited by CIA and the leadership are all Arab Jews, trained by Mossad.”
Her refusal to admit what she had done was wrong, and her aggressive behavior (challenging officers al la Aron style), is what probably attributed to the selection of type of prison.
Now how Eloise can preach that this is not anti-semitism in any way, and the fact that her followers are lapping it up is extremely concerning. Either shes made her own mind up that Tahra is innocent and is deliberately lying to persuade her followers. Or she has picked this up second hand from someone else and has researched it to her usual standard.
Remember the "Hitler can't have been all bad as he was a vegetarian and liked animals". It's all a slippery slope.
Oh, and that amazing journalist William Coleshill was there as well, no surprise there.
