CELEBRITY activists including actresses Olivia Colman and Carey Mulligan are facing calls to apologise after backing a campaign to free an Egyptian “extremist” from prison.
Tories insist the stars who pushed for Alaa Abd el-Fattah to come to Britain should withdraw praise after his vile historical views emerged, including calling for Zionist killings.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said: “The celebrities who campaigned for el-Fattah to come to the UK were the extremist’s useful idiots.
“They should withdraw their glowing praise for him and apologise for campaigning for an anti-British, anti-white, anti-Semitic extremist to come to our country.
“Starmer and our weak political class should stop bending the knee to performative celebrity campaigns and put keeping the British people safe first.”
The activist jailed for years in Egypt was welcomed to the UK by Sir Keir Starmer on Boxing Day.
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A row then erupted over historic tweets, which included calling for Zionists to be killed.
The comments sparked calls from the Tories and Reform UK to revoke his citizenship and deport him.
While the Government is unlikely to do so due to legal constraints, the Foreign Office has now launched an internal inquiry into the “unacceptable failure” of officials to spot the “abhorrent” social media posts.
The row deepened yesterday as it emerged el-Fattah’s sister praised Hamas paragliders after the October 7 massacre, hailing their “special kind of imagination”.