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The lawyer read a poem at a recent Iran-backed anti-Israel online event where a variety of anti-Semitic tropes were expressed and praise was offered for Iranian arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani.
By Ezra Stone, United with Israel
While Narjis Khan works by day as a lawyer for the UK’s Government Legal Department (GLD), her true passion appears to be poetry, specifically verse focusing on the elimination of the Jewish state and its replacement with a “unified” Arab country called “Palestine.”
Khan exhibited her love for anti-Israel poetry at a recent online event for Al Quds Day, an annual celebration invented by the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 to lather up crowds with anti-Semitic speeches and chants of “death to Israel, death to the US.”
During the online event on Friday, Khan was joined by an all-star cast of Jew-haters, anti-Israel activists, and even an actual member of a terror organization. Her co-presenters included Hashem Al Haydari from the Iran-backed Iraqi terror group Kataib Hezbollah and Mohammad Al Asi, an imam banned from entering the UK who “publicly swore allegiance to the Iranian Supreme Leader in 1994” and serves as “a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT), a pro-Iranian, pro-Hezbollah Islamist think tank that distributes anti-Semitic propaganda in its magazine, Crescent International,” according to an Anti-Defamation League report.
Khan read one of her poems at the event, in which she disparaged Theodor Herzl as “the founder of Zionism” who “set[] out his plan so sinister.” She made sure to dog-whistle all of the key terms that anti-Israel propagandists use, including “apartheid,” “illegal enterprise,” “oppressors,” and “segregation,” portraying vicious acts of Palestinian terror as “defense.”
Khan concluded by yearning for a “truly unified” state of “Palestine,” which is coded language for the elimination of Israel and the end of the Jewish state.
Prior to this event, Khan wrote a blog for the Islamic Human Rights Commission’s (IHRC) website, “which included a eulogy to Iranian major general Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated by U.S. forces in January after being held responsible for the murder of thousands of people around the world,” the UK’s Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported.
Remarking on the event, anti-Semitism expert David Collier commented to the JC, “It is beyond understanding how someone who works for the Government Legal Department can possibly justify her appearance when the event is clearly linked to the violent and radical Islamist ideologies of the ayatollahs in Iran.”
Meanwhile Khan claimed she “was not aware of who the other speakers were” at the event, adding, “Regardless, speaking at any event does not mean that one shares the views of others participating at that event,” the JC reported.
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