Piers Morgan sued by Israel lobby group

UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) mouthpiece Natasha Hausdorff is one of the Israel lobby lawfare group‘s better known faces. She has been accused by a Jewish critic of defending “pure freaking evil” for her insistence that Israel is not committing genocide and war crimes in Gaza. And she is suing right-wing host Piers Morgan for a 2025 interview in which he gave her a torrid time for it.

Piers Morgan announcement

Morgan has announced the suit, though the “particulars of claim” detailing what grounds she thinks she has for legal action have not yet been released. Morgan said he is looking forward to testing his words in court:

The suit relates to a June 2025 interview in which Morgan – who at first refused to accept Israel’s genocide but eventually woke up – called “bullshit” on Hausdorff’s relentless and cold-eyed denialism. The interview lasts an hour, but a short taster is available for those who want it.

Ironically – and no doubt tellingly of the Israel lobby’s inability to understand how it comes across – the clip was posted by Hausdorff herself. It seems she felt it made her look good – and the victim, as Israel always must be. But Piers Morgan himself picked it up in a repost, saying he had had “more convivial chats with serial killers” than with the Israel apologist:

Hausdorff, a barrister, filed her defamation on 23 February. As an interesting aside, she has been accused of “screaming” at far-right campaigner Charlie Kirk in a fraught Israel lobby meeting that attempted to bring Kirk back into the pro-Israel fold shortly before he was publicly murdered. Kirk had told friends he was ending his support for Israel. Hausdorff blocked Jewish journalist Max Blumenthal after he reported the allegation:

McCarthyite foreign interest group

UKLFI, whose name makes clear it serves the interests of a foreign power, has attacked everything from a display of plates painted by Palestinian children to Netflix — is well known for its attempts to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and solidarity, particularly in the NHS and in the media-cultural sector.

It recently intimidated a gallery owner into ending a smash-hit art show and browbeat the resignation of a university museum director for daring to host a display by technical experts who exposed Israeli lies during the genocide.

Along with its fellow apartheid apologist group, the so-called ‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ (CAA), UKLFI has fallen foul of regulators. CAA has been subjected to regulatory action for its political smears and was humiliated in court for false accusations against comedian Reginald D. Hunter. UKLFI is currently being investigated for vexatious threats.

Forced apology

Hausdorff is represented by the notorious Mark Lewis, who has been censured for wishing death on a Corbyn supporter. Lewis’s advice played a major role in the decision of Pete Newbon, a director of the misnamed ‘Labour against Antisemitism’, to sue Jewish national treasure Michael Rosen for Rosen’s condemnation of Newbon’s bastardisation of a Rosen book to attack then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Lewis also advised Newbon and two other Israel supporters in their ruinous defence against James Wilson, whom they had endangered with vile public lies. Newbon died by suicide before the case concluded; his co-defendants were ordered to pay massive damages to Wilson. Newbon’s widow has said that he had kept the legal actions “secret” and recently said he had lied to her about dropping the cases. She subsequently sacked Lewis.

Lewis was heavily criticised by a judge, and subsequently forced to apologise, for misleading the court in the case. Emails between him and barrister Gavin Millar showed Lewis discussing how much money he hoped to squeeze out of Wilson by keeping the case going.

Featured image via the Canary