Israeli minister who champions Tommy Robinson brands Shabana Mahmood an ‘Islamist’

An Israeli minister who has championed anti-Muslim campaigner Tommy Robinson and cultivated alliances with Europe’s far right has been accused of racism after portraying British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood as part of an Islamist takeover of Britain. Amichai Chikli, Israel’s minister for diaspora affairs and combating anti-Semitism, targeted Mahmood after she announced plans allowing charities and non-profit organisations to sponsor refugees.  In a post on X on 29 September, Chikli wrote: “When people speak of the political takeover of a country by Islamism, they imagine bearded sheikhs in robes. “In reality, political Islam often looks exactly like this: Oxford English, fashionable clothes and progressive rhetoric. That is true of the Islamist @NYCMayor Mamdani and it is equally true of the […]