{"id":120672,"date":"2023-10-29T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=120672"},"modified":"2023-10-29T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:49:20","slug":"outraged-minister-unleashes-fury-at-jobs-for-hamas-terrorist-sympathisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/politics\/outraged-minister-unleashes-fury-at-jobs-for-hamas-terrorist-sympathisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Outraged minister unleashes fury at jobs for Hamas terrorist sympathisers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel Defence Force ramps up bombardment of Gaza<\/h3>\n

A furious senior Cabinet Minister has told the body responsible for funding Britain’s scientific research that she is “outraged” it has appointed Hamas terrorist sympathisers to key positions.<\/p>\n

Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, has written to the head of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) giving her 24 hours to explain why Hamas sympathisers have been appointed to senior positions.<\/p>\n

The senior minister has also raised concerns more widely over how UKRI under its chief executive Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, is adding extra burdens on getting research funding by insisting on extra demands to meet equality standards.<\/p>\n

The intervention comes amid growing concerns over support for Hamas on Britain’s streets in the aftermath of the October 7 attack by the terrorist group killing more than 1,400 Israeli citizens including bringing children to death, kidnapping 200 others and injuring hundreds more.<\/p>\n

In a scathing letter which Ms Donelan posted on social media, she said that the actions of UKRI in failing to check on Hamas sympathies with people in key roles were “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n

The row centres over appointments to UKRI’s advisory group on equality, diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n

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The minister said: “I am outraged by the post on X by Professor Kate Sang, who stated that the UK’s crackdown on Hamas support in the UK was ‘disturbing’.<\/p>\n

“Hamas is a proscribed terrorist organisation. It is completely unacceptable for anyone to be expressing sympathy or support for them.<\/p>\n

“I am staggered that this has occurred full stop, let alone that I have to write to you about it.”<\/p>\n

She went on: “I was shocked to see multiple Tweets by other members of the group, including the amplification by Dr Kamna Patel, University College London, of a post on X that condemns violence on both sides but makes reference to Israel’s ‘genocide and apartheid.'”<\/p>\n

Ms Donelan added: “The political impartiality of our scientific funding system is vital. For this group, there has clearly been a serious failure to be mindful of the need for both real and perceived impartiality.”<\/p>\n

She told Dame Ottoline that the group should “be closed down” and that UKRI “should undertake an urgent investigation into how this happened.”<\/p>\n

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