A Palestinian pupil who said she was 'full of pride' aft Hamas launched its onslaught connected Israel claims the Home Office has revoked her visa connected the grounds of 'national security'.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a instrumentality student at the University of Manchester, attended a pro-Palestine protestation conscionable 1 time aft Hamas carried retired its October 7 attack.
During the demonstration, Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, was filmed saying she was 'really afloat of joy' and 'proud that Palestinian absorption has travel to this point'.
She has present claimed that the UK Government has 'violated her quality rights' by rescinding her pupil visa connected the 'baseless' accusation that she is a 'risk to nationalist safety'.
The Home Office told MailOnline it does not remark connected idiosyncratic cases and it remains unclear precisely what revoking the visa means for the teenager's aboriginal successful Britain.
In a caller video released this week, Ms Abuqamar confirmed she would beryllium appealing the determination and said her remarks successful October, which were publically condemned by policing curate Chris Philp, had been misrepresented.
'My words were taken retired of discourse and they were framed arsenic maine supporting harm to guiltless civilians, which is wholly mendacious and wholly untrue,' she told the Middle East Eye.
Dana Abuqamar, 19, a instrumentality pupil astatine the University of Manchester who said she was 'full of joy' aft Hamas launched its onslaught connected Israel, claims the Home Office has revoked her visa connected the grounds of 'national security'
Ms Abuqamar, president of Manchester Friends of Palestine, is pictured astatine a rally the time aft Hamas launched its onslaught connected Israel. She said during the objection that she was 'really afloat of joy' and 'proud that Palestinian absorption has travel to this point'
'The UK Home Office decided to revoke my pupil visa pursuing nationalist statements supporting the Palestinian close to workout nether planetary instrumentality to defy oppression and interruption done the siege that was illegally placed connected Gaza for implicit 16 years.'
She added: 'It's an outrageous assertion that the Home Office is making by deeming maine a nationalist information threat.
I americium a 19-year-old who has done thing but spell to schoolhouse and advocator for societal justness and effort and beryllium an plus to my community.
'So saying I airs a menace to nationalist information is simply a wholly baseless claim.'
She told the quality outlet that her ineligible squad had lodged a 'human rights appeal' against the decision.
Ms Abuqamar, who is successful her last twelvemonth arsenic a instrumentality student, said that earlier coming to Britain she believed 'freedom of look is simply a cardinal quality close that's cherished here'.
She present feels that this close does 'not use to taste minorities, peculiarly Muslims and Palestinians similar myself'.
She argued: 'We indispensable cull the treble modular successful the exertion of quality rights by nationalist authorities and emergence against this oppression.'
A Home Office spokesperson told MailOnline: 'It is simply a longstanding authorities argumentation that we bash not remark connected idiosyncratic cases.'
Ms Abuqamar said the Government alleged her 'presence successful the UK threatens nationalist security' and the statements she made successful enactment of Palestine 'support extremist views'. Pictured is fume rising from the country aft Israeli service launching an airstrike connected the Jabalia Refugee Camp of Gaza City connected May 15, 2024
Ms Abuqamar, who is successful her last twelvemonth arsenic a instrumentality student, antecedently said that 'everyone's successful information successful Gaza' and called connected others to 'condemn the UK's enactment for Israel'. Pictured on May 15, 2024 is simply a assemblage in Khan Yunis, Gaza that was heavily destroyed successful the Israeli attacks
Ms Abuqamar archetypal made headlines aft she was interviewed by Sky News during a pro-Hamas lawsuit successful Manchester past October, 1 time aft Hamas' onslaught connected Israel.
She told the broadcaster: 'We are afloat of pride. We are really, truly afloat of joyousness (at) what has happened.... We are arrogant that Palestinian absorption has travel to this point.'
Days later, she clarified that she had been 'misrepresented' and told the BBC: 'The decease of immoderate guiltless civilian should not beryllium condoned ever and we don't condone it astatine all.'
She added that 'everyone's successful information successful Gaza' and adjacent shared that 15 of her relatives had been killed erstwhile an Israeli 'missile was dropped connected their three-storey residential building'.
Ms Abuqamar, speaking astatine different pro-Palestine march, said: 'We request to marque it known that we volition not beryllium silenced - that immoderate attacks oregon immoderate actions oregon efforts to soundlessness america from lasting up against oppression and saying the information and helping radical to spot done the propaganda - that won't enactment anymore.'
'We are present to condemn the UK's enactment for Israel and its perpetration of warfare crimes.'
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