Man sentenced to prison for wearing t-shirts in support of banned antisemitic terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad

A man has been sentenced to sixteen weeks in prison after he pleaded guilty last month to wearing t-shirts in support of two banned antisemitic genocidal terrorist groups back in June.

Feras Al Jayoosi, 34 and of Swindon, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 12th November to four counts of wearing an article supporting a proscribed organisation.

One t-shirt reportedly worn by Mr Al Jayoosi supported the Izz al-Din al Qassem Brigades, which is the so-called “military wing” of the Hamas terrorist group. The other t-shirt supported the banned Islamic Jihad group.

In addition to his sixteen-week prison sentence, Mr Al Jayoosi was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service and pay £288 to the magistrate court.

Speaking directly to Mr Al Jayoosi during Friday‘s proceedings, Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said: “You had multiple warnings that the path you were taking – the organisations you sought out to align yourself with – would get you into trouble, but you carried on.”

Last month, the Home Secretary banned the antisemitic genocidal terrorist group Hamas in full, after it emerged that the terrorist who murdered the grandson of a prominent British rabbi yesterday was a member of the group’s supposed “political wing”.

Campaign Against Antisemitism’s analysis of Home Office statistics shows that an average of over three hate crimes are directed at Jews every single day in England and Wales, with Jews more than four times likelier to be targets of hate crimes than any other faith group. 

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