In one of three social media posts hours after the attacks began in 2023, Dr Menatalla Elwan, 34, who worked at an NHS trust in Liverpool, reposted footage of music festivalgoers running from Hamas terrorists and wrote “if it was your home, you would stay and fight”, accompanied by a smiling face emoji.
Home Office moved to cancel Menatalla Elwan’s leave to remain over posts on Hamas’s 7 October attack.
The Home Office tried to remove her temporary right to remain in the UK, but Elwan, who has lived in the country legally since 2016, challenged the decision and was backed by an immigration tribunal judge.
“The [Home Office] also had to consider the consequences to Dr Elwan and, indeed, to the wider community of immediate cancellation, requiring her to leave her existing post.”.
Judge Davies said Elwan’s reposting of the video along with her comments amounted to “expressions of support and justification for, and indeed glorification of, Hamas terrorist violence”.
