Sultana slams Telegraph writers Israel lobby links

Your Party MP Zarah Sultana has slapped down Telegraph political editor Camilla Turner for a scurrilous smear by appearing to link Turner’s position – and political views – to “mummy and daddy” being directors of notorious Israel lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI).

Turner wrote an article claiming that Sultana “could” – emphasis on the ‘could’:

face an investigation by the parliamentary watchdog after being accused of peddling an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

At the very end of the article, Turner admits that the Standards Authority doesn’t actually seem to be investigating the nonsense:

Ms Sultana’s spokesman said on Saturday that she had not heard from the commissioner on this matter.

Sultana’s supposed “anti-Semitic [sic] conspiracy theory” was a comment on X that:

Zionism is one of the greatest threats to humanity.

and:

[Israeli soldiers] love killing kids.

Where’s the lie?

Sultana speaks out

Supposedly, a complaint has been submitted to Parliament alleging these comments are antisemitic “blood libel” – hardly the first time the Israel lobby has wheeled out that tired claim to deflect from its crimes. The complaint was submitted by the disgraced Israel lobby group ‘Labour against Antisemitism’ (LAAS). You know, the LAAS whose non-Jewish director made up a Jewish-sounding name to submit complaints of ‘Labour antisemitism’.

But a comment has to be untrue to be libel – and both of Sultana’s are reality, not theory.

Since their illegal occupation of a land that doesn’t belong to them by violently expelling 700,000 Palestinians, Zionists have:

∙ bombed a US ship to try to trigger a war
∙ bombed their own people in Egypt to try to force them to go to Israel
∙ constantly slaughtered more Palestinians and stolen more land
∙ stolen US secrets and uranium to build illegal atomic weapons
∙ broken every ceasefire they’ve ever agreed
∙ blown up their own buildings in London to trigger persecution of Palestinians
∙ maimed and killed Palestinians attempting peaceful resistance in the ‘First Intifada’
∙ killed journalists trying to report on peaceful resistance
∙ tried to get the US to invade Iran every year for more than three decades by claiming Iranian nuclear weapons were imminent
∙ armed and treated ISIS fighters to ruin Syria.

And all that’s from way before they started their ongoing genocide in Gaza (which has killed hundreds of thousands of children), their terrorist pager-bomb attacks and ongoing bombings in Lebanon (which killed and maimed children), and their murders of peace negotiators and civilian scientists.

And, of course, their two disastrous wars on Iran that have murdered more children, seen Israeli cities devastated in retaliation, and brought the world to the brink of global economic collapse.

It’s not theory, it’s empirical: Zionism and its adherents – many of whom are not Jewish – are indeed one of the “greatest threats to humanity”.

So Zarah Sultana hit back:

UKLFI

So, back to ‘mummy and daddy’. Jonathan Turner is CEO of UKFLI. He appalled the decent world in 2025 by suggesting that Israel’s starvation blockade of Gaza was a good thing, as it would help Palestinians lose weight. He didn’t use that word, of course, since to Zionists the Palestinians don’t exist:

The [Lancet] letter also ignored factors that may increase average life expectancy in Gaza, bearing in mind that one of the biggest health issues in Gaza prior to the current war was obesity.

Mummy Caroline Turner is a fellow UKLFI director. She is currently the subject of a complaint from the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) for her and UKLFI’s:

(alleged) breaches of the SRA’s Principles and Code of Conduct, including the use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP), which are lawsuits intended to limit freedom of expression on matters of public interest. Additionally, we are calling for an investigation into whether UKLFI is operating as an unregulated law firm…

…UKLFI, established in 2011, describes its mission as countering the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and what it calls the “delegitimisation of Israel”.

The complaint includes eight threatening letters sent by UKLFI to individuals and organisations between January 2022 and May 2025 which demonstrate a seeming pattern of vexatious and legally baseless correspondence aimed at silencing and intimidating Palestine solidarity efforts.

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UKLFI is being investigated by the solicitors’ regulator for repeated “vexatious” actions. Among its most notorious, it has:

∙ tried eleven times so far to strip British-Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu-Sittah of his medical licence after Abu-Sittah exposed Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
∙ bullied a hospital into removing a display of plates painted by Palestinian children
∙ tried to browbeat the British Museum into removing the words ‘Palestine’ and ‘Palestinian’ from displays
∙ forced a gallery to terminate an artist’s hit exhibition, and
∙ even attacked Netflix for not being pro-Israel enough.

Small wonder that human rights group CAGE describes it and fellow Israel lobby group CAA as Britain’s “apartheid apologists”.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

But the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Whether or not she owes her position and politics to ma and pa, Camilla Turner’s own views are no less appalling. One social media user points out a few recent examples:

Going a bit further back, she condemned British Muslims for not believing that Palestinian resistance groups “committed murder and rape”. They are right and she is wrong: the UN and even Israel’s chief prosecutor found no evidence of rapes. Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October 2023 in repeated, day-long ‘Hannibal’ attacks – a fact admitted by Israeli media, the IDF and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Gallant even wished his forces had killed more.

And the Islamic Human Rights Commission felt compelled to respond to her attempts to smear it for condemning fascist rioters. It also felt it had to correct her smearing of UK Jews as uniformly supporting Israel’s crimes.

Sultana is right. At the very least, Turner should be declaring her links to mummy and daddy and their Israel-lobby attack vehicle. After all, a judge recently ordered one lobby group to declare its activities every time it tries a bit of “SLAAP” or lawfare.

But since the Telegraph is now owned by ultra-Zionists, she’s unlikely to get into trouble for not mentioning it.

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