Reposts on the President of a London Uni’s Free Pal Club Getting Special Treatment
Why I’m Reposting
As many have picked up, London is cooked. Jews are begging their community to get out while they still can. This story is just one more example, at a time when Jewish institutions are being targeted while anti-Jewish resisters keep getting procedural protection. Even if someone still refuses to understand how openly hostile Free Publicity is, this story shows something simple: one side gets handled with fear, the other with “toughen up, Jew boy.”
Today I’m reposting three articles about the aftermath of a campus altercation that ordinarily would be called petty. The remarks were so benign that it wouldn’t even get flagged on social media, let alone removed. Instead, it turned into a legal and criminal saga. Each piece adds a new grotesque detail. To save you time, I bolded the new information that each article brings.
In short, there was a confrontation between “Free Palestine” activist Huda El-Jamal and Brodie Mitchell, a non-Jewish Zionist student. According to the reporting, El-Jamal allegedly called him a “wannabe Jew” and mocked him for not wearing a kippah. He responded by telling her that the keffiyeh on her head looked like a tea towel. And like clockwork, the person who (allegedly) started the fight played the victim, and got praise and sympathy.
The London Uni, Royal Holloway, suspended Mitchell for nine weeks while investigating what it called conduct that could be considered hate speech. Meanwhile, the reported anti-Jewish insult that triggered the exchange did not produce comparable consequences. Two people allegedly said things, but only the Jewish-ally faced consequences for it.
Yes, instead of spending money on student resources, or encouraging free speech, a University, once a place of higher learning, went along with the Free Publicity cult’s “anti-normalization” tactic, aka not even listening to arguments and just insisting ‘nanana boo boo, you’re a stupid Jew Jew.’ Reports say the school could spend £734,000 before a judge cut the future costs down…. to £226,000. Instead of spending money on students, education, or actual campus life, the institution appears to have chosen bureaucratic escalation to protect their tuchuses from seeing what ‘globalize the intifada’ definitively translates to.
Then it got worse. The latest reporting says police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for advice over possible hate-crime charges. POLICE. Over a valid comment. When I briefly lived in London, police didn’t even assist when I was nearly mugged, yelling at my witnesses that they’d be arrested if they didn’t let my attacker go and drop it.When I lived in London, police would encourage drunks leaving bars to fight. Today, the anti-Jew movement has such a hold on London institutions that anti-Jewish insult is treated as background noise, while an observation (an objectivly true one at that) about a dangerous political symbol is criminalized.
That’s aside from Uni double standards. At University of Florida, across the pond, an openly racist law student got awarded top honors for a well-written, albeit deplorable, paper. A UF Republican club completely disbanded upon allegations of two members doing a Nazi salute, aka, not using the same “Jewish supremacist” rhetoric as the Free Palestine movement regularly turns to. But in London, debate isn’t allowed, and shame is still absent from the people allegedly yelling about kippot.
Anyone who has watched Jews and Jewish allies get punished for answering overt racists will recognize the pattern. This story echoes how social media is rife with racism, but responses to the racism gets you banned.
And here comes the the most important detail, who allegedly said the anti-Jewish comments. Huda El-Jamal, according to reports and her LinkedIn, is the president of the Friends of Palestine Society. She leads the mob. Despite this, the resistance that is forever begging to be seen as merely “antizionist, not antisemitic” had no problem with its own president allegedly using “wannabe Jew” as an insult. Which every Jew is not surprised by, because we have been telling you for decades that FREE FREE PUBLICITY is just branding to sometimes cover up chants about Khaybar.
The sources here are Yahoo Newsvia The Telegraph and The Tab. The Tab is a British digital outlet focused heavily on university news, which makes it relevant here because this is a campus story before it became a national free-speech one. The Telegraph’s later report is important because it adds the newest escalation: possible criminal charges.
Note 1: The keffiyeh was culturally appropriated by Yasser Arafat. Its origins are not remotely Palestinian. Remember, Pal. was once a “pan-Arab” movement known as Ba’athism, before their rebrand. Britannica itself says the word “keffiyeh” refers to the city of Kufa in Iraq, where the scarf tradition originated. The black-and-white version later becoming associated with the PLO and Arafat, and a culture of violence, not some ancient roots.
Note 2: The PLO has been at war with Hamas for decades. More than a decade ago, when I naively supported a Palestinian-led state, I commented on how Hamas banned the PLO keffiyeh. Whenever I would call out that the keffiyeh was banned in Gaza, I would receive comment after comment about spreading “zio-Jew propaganda.” Because, and this is critical, Free Palestine has not now or ever been a movement about helping Gaza. It is about harassing Jews only.
So, no, the keffiyeh was not a Hamas symbol, until Hamas found they’re depicted better pretending to be united with PLO. In reality, students were beaten at Gaza Uni campuses for wearing this tea-towel looking rag. The PLO symbol was largely not allowed in Gaza under Hamas rule, but the Free Palestine movement never cared.
Note 3: Years ago, I reposted an article on how much the intifada supporters cost London, available here: https://kingchill.com/jude/repost-london-cost This predates them lighting ambulances on fire and what not.
Note 4: CAMERA on Campus pointed out how problematic Huda’s group is just last February. Their article depicting what Jews on UK campuses are facing includes, “A recent StandwithUs event hosting two Nova survivors was met with a letter of complaint by the Friends of Palestine Society, calling for an investigation into the promotion of an “IDF soldier and war criminal”. We find ourselves routinely scanning RSVP lists, meticulously monitoring the Instagram follower requests, and permanently operating under institutionalised double standards.” Read that in full here: https://cameraoncampus.org/blog/publicised-hatred-unofficially-endorsed-by-my-student-union/
Brodie Mitchell was suspended after telling Huda El-Jamal, the president of Royal Holloway’s Friends of Palestine Society, ‘You’re wearing a tea-towel on your head’ - Geoff Pugh
University facing legal battle after ‘taking sides’ in student row over Gaza
Patrick Sawer; Mar 21, 2026
A student claims he was suspended for hate speech after making a joke comparing a pro-Palestine activist’s headscarf to a tea towel.
Brodie Mitchell has accused his university of behaving unlawfully after it subjected him to “unfair” disciplinary measures over the petty “spat”.
The 20-year-old is now taking Royal Holloway, University of London to court over its decision to temporarily suspend him from his studies over the comments.
Mr Mitchell, who describes himself as a non-Jewish Zionist, became involved in the confrontation at Royal Holloway’s Freshers’ Fair last September, after Huda El-Jamal, the president of the Friends of Palestine Society, allegedly described him as a “wannabe Jew” and asked why he was not wearing a Jewish yarmulke or kippah.
He responded by telling Ms El-Jamal, who is of Palestinian origin: “You’re wearing a tea towel on your head,” referring to her keffiyeh scarf – a symbol of the Palestinian struggle made famous by Yasser Arafat, the late Palestine Liberation Organisation leader.
Huda El-Jamal allegedly described Mr Mitchell as a ‘wannabe Jew’ - LinkedIn
The next day, Mr Mitchell was suspended from the university for the duration of a nine-week investigation by Royal Holloway “for alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech”.
Mr Mitchell, a second-year student, claims he was forced to leave his student accommodation for several days. This was denied by the university, although strict restrictions were placed on him interacting with other students around the campus near Egham, Surrey.
He accuses Royal Holloway of denying him the time and facilities needed to complete his degree in politics and international relations.
Mr Mitchell is also subject to a separate investigation by Surrey Police into the same allegations of hate speech.
The case comes amid an ongoing debate over the Government’s definition of anti-Muslim hostility which opponents fear could be “weaponised to silence legitimate criticism of the Islamic faith and Muslims”.
At a cost management hearing last month, Royal Holloway indicated it would run up a £734,000 legal bill to defend itself against Mr Mitchell’s claim, which Francis Hoar, his barrister, described in court as “grossly disproportionate and unreasonable”.
The court made a Costs Management Order, which significantly reduced the university’s future legal costs to £226,000.
Mr Mitchell, a member of the campus Conservative Association, claims the dispute between himself and Ms El-Jamal, a third-year student, could have been resolved informally.
He maintains that he had been prepared to apologise to her after accepting that what he said was “poorly expressed and inappropriate”.
‘Here’s the wannabe Jew’
He also claims that Ms El-Jamal was not interviewed by the university about her part in the row.
Mr Mitchell will tell a three-day trial at the High Court, due to take place in June, that the disciplinary action taken by the university robbed him of the equivalent of seven weeks of teaching time and that his degree will take longer to complete than for other students.
Describing what prompted the clash, Mr Mitchell told a pre-trial hearing at the High Court last December: “Towards the end of Freshers’ Fair on Tuesday 23 September, Ms El-Jamal smirked and pointed at me, saying something like ‘here’s the wannabe Jew’, which was followed by a comment about me not wearing a kippah.
“I began filming the interaction as I realised I didn’t have any witnesses and said ‘You’re wearing a tea towel over your head’, referring to her Yasser Arafat inspired keffiyeh, which I considered at the time to be a fitting off-the-cuff retort to her pre-emptive racist and antisemitic attack on me and reference to her jibe about my lack of kippah.”
Shortly after the incident, Mr Mitchell emailed the university to say he accepted that his response was “poorly expressed and inappropriate” and that “it was only about politics, not about race or religion”.
Mr Hoar told the court that Mr Mitchell was essentially saying that “she started it and that her remark was just as bad”.
In his witness statement, Mr Mitchell added: “I’ve always tried to be respectful in how I express myself, even when discussing difficult topics like the Israel-Palestine conflict. I respect others’ right to hold opposing views, but I also believe in the importance of open dialogue and the ability to disagree without hate.
“I’ve seen too often that people are scared to speak up at universities, and that’s something I want to change. I just want to continue my studies, finish my degree, and live a normal life again – without fear, without intimidation, and without being silenced for having a political opinion.”
Mr Mitchell attends an Iranian protest outside 10 Downing Street last month - Elliott Franks
The student, who claims he had previously been abused with taunts of “genocide supporter” on campus for his support for Israel, is being backed in his legal fight by the Free Speech Union.
It has lodged a formal complaint with the Office for Students, the independent regulator for higher education in England, over Royal Holloway’s handling of free speech issues.
The Office for Students said it could not comment before the forthcoming legal proceedings.
Royal Holloway defended its procedures, saying it had investigated the incident and had encouraged an informal resolution to the dispute. It said the university had not received any formal complaint from Mr Mitchell about Ms El-Jamal’s behaviour towards him.
Dr Nick Barratt, chief student officer at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “Following a formal complaint from a student who described being targeted with a comment from another student they found discriminatory and distressing – and which was reported to the police as a hate crime – the university was obliged to follow its established conduct procedures.
“The student at the centre of the conduct process has not denied the behaviour that was under investigation. No formal complaint has been made against the reporting student, and no evidence has been provided to support one, but we are clear that any such allegation would also be investigated.
“This case is about addressing conduct that was found to be harassment. For us, that means defending every student’s right to a university experience free from discrimination.
“We respect the court process, and welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that our actions were in line with our duty to protect students from harassment and discrimination.”
Ms El-Jamal was approached for comment.
London university faces £200k+ in legal fees for suspending student over headscarf comment
Brodie Mitchell told a pro-Palestine activist her headscarf looked like a ‘tea-towel’
Esther Knowles; Mar 23, 2026
Royal Holloway University is facing legal action for suspending a student over a joke he made likening a pro-Palestine activists headscarf to a tea towel.
Brodie Mitchell is taking the London university to court for subjecting him to “unfair” disciplinary measures over a minor “spat”.
The second-year politics and law student, who identifies as a non-Jewish Zionist, got involved in a confrontation at the university’s Freshers’ Fair last year.
In response to Huda El-Jamal (president of the Friends of Palestine Society) allegedly calling him “wannabe Jew” and asking why he was not wearing a Jewish yarmulke or kippah, Brodie retorted: “You’re wearing a tea-towel on your head.”
The item of clothing Brodie compared to a “tea-towel” was a keffiyeh scarf, which is a symbol of the Palestinian struggle made by Yasser Arafat, the late Palestine Liberation Organisation leader.
As a result of Brodie’s comment, he was suspended from Royal Holloway for the duration of a nine-week investigation, for what the university described as “alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech.”
The 20-year-old also claimed he was forced to leave his student accommodation for days. However, the university denied this allegation, instead maintaining that strict restrictions were placed on him interacting with other students on campus.
He is also under investigation by Surrey Police for the same incident.
Brodie accused Royal Holloway of denying him the time and resources to complete his degree, and argued the dispute could have been resolved informally.
According to the Telegraph, the university indicated it would spend £734,000 in legal fees to defend itself from Brodie’s claim during a cost management hearing last month.
Brodie’s barrister described the figure as “grossly disproportionate and unreasonable”, and the court made a Costs Management Order which reduced Royal Holloway’s future legal costs to £226,000.
According to Brodie, Royal Holloway never interviewed Huda about her involvement in the dispute. He also claimed he emailed the university shortly after the incident, acknowledging his response was “poorly expressed and inappropriate” and explaining that “it was only about politics, not about race or religion”.
A three-day trial at the High Court is scheduled to take place in June.
In a statement to The London Tab, Brodie Mitchell said: “This situation should never have escalated to this level. It was a brief exchange between students that could and should have been resolved informally, rather than through a lengthy disciplinary process and now High Court proceedings.
“I’ve already acknowledged that my comment was poorly expressed and silly, and I stand by that. It was made in the context of a political exchange, referring to a keffiyeh – a widely recognised political symbol – not a religious head covering, and it was not intended as an attack on anyone’s race or religion.
“It’s also important to me that people understand I’ve spent time in both Israel and Palestinian areas, speaking with people from different communities and seeing the realities on the ground. That experience reinforced my belief in dialogue and mutual understanding, and I strongly reject any claims that I am racist or Islamophobic.
“I also want to be clear that I condemn any hateful or abusive comments directed at either of us following this coverage – we are both students with academic commitments, and it’s disappointing that disagreement today so often leads to attempts to silence or ‘cancel’ rather than engage in open debate.
“We cant allow for this aggressive labelling of anyone who we disagree with. Educational Leaders must encourage debate and promote freedom of speech rather than hinder it.
“What concerns me most is the wider environment this reflects. There is a growing imbalance on campus where some on one side feel able to express very strong or controversial views, but others on opposing sides are quickly labelled or reported for simply responding. That creates a culture where open discussion becomes extremely difficult.
“At the same time, I have faced ongoing hostility, including intimidation and death threats, and have spent a significant amount of time reporting incidents to the university and police instead of focusing on my studies. Just this weekend a student was reported for wanting to ‘murder’ me. Simply because of my political views. My friends often say to me, if these people took the time to speak with me, they’d be shocked about how much we can mutually agree on.
“More broadly, I think many people will question the proportionality of a university being prepared to spend hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds pursuing legal action against a single student over a comment like this. Those are resources that could be far better used supporting students and improving campus life. Especially during what is a difficult economic time for most of us, going from paycheck to paycheck.
“Ultimately, I simply want to continue my studies in a normal environment where disagreements can be handled proportionately, without escalation, and without students being defined or labelled for their views.”
Dr Nick Barratt, chief student officer at Royal Holloway, University of London said: “Following a formal complaint from a student who described being targeted with a comment from another student they found discriminatory and distressing – and which was reported to the police as a hate crime – the university was obliged to follow its established conduct procedures.
“The student at the centre of the conduct process has not denied the behaviour that was under investigation. No formal complaint has been made against the reporting student, and no evidence has been provided to support one, but we are clear that any such allegation would also be investigated.
“This case is about addressing conduct that was found to be harassment. For us, that means defending every student’s right to a University experience free from discrimination.
“We respect the court process, and welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that our actions were in line with our duty to protect students from harassment and discrimination.”
Friends of Palestine Society has been contacted for comment.
Featured image via Unsplash and LinkedIn
Brodie Mitchell said it would now take him longer to complete his degree than other students on the course Credit: Geoff Pugh
Student facing charges over tea towel ‘joke’ about pro-Palestine activist
Brodie Mitchell could be charged with hate crime over incident at Royal Holloway, University of London, which has sparked a free speech row
Charles Hymas; Apr 9, 2026
A student is facing possible hate crime charges after making a joke comparing a pro-Palestine activist’s headscarf to a tea towel.
Brodie Mitchell, a 20-year-old student at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been told that police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), seeking advice over possible charges for a hate crime.
The case has led to a free speech row and calls for the CPS to drop the inquiry.
Mr Mitchell, who describes himself as a non-Jewish Zionist, became involved in the confrontation at Royal Holloway’s freshers’ fair last September, after Huda El-Jamal, the president of the Friends of Palestine Society, allegedly described him as a “wannabe Jew” and asked why he was not wearing a Jewish yarmulke or kippah.
He responded by telling Ms El-Jamal: “You’re wearing a tea towel on your head”, referring to her keffiyeh scarf. The scarf is a symbol of the Palestinian cause.
Mr Mitchell was suspended from the university the next day for the duration of a nine-week investigation by Royal Holloway “for alleged conduct that could be considered hate speech”.
He is now taking the university to court over its decision to temporarily suspend him from his studies.
He will tell a three-day trial at the High Court, set to take place in June, that the disciplinary action taken by the university robbed him of the equivalent of seven weeks of teaching time, and that his degree would take longer to complete than other students’.
The police and the university have been criticised for “wasting” their time investigating the incident and threatening freedom of speech.
Lord Young of Acton, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, called the case “a deeply shocking story”.
He said: “An argument between two students has been blown out of all proportion by Royal Holloway. Brodie should never have been banned from campus and placed under investigation, let alone reported to the police.”
“What makes Royal Holloway’s actions particularly reprehensible is that Brodie was put through the wringer, while the student who insulted him got off scot-free.”
Mr Mitchell, who faces a three-day trial at the High Court in June, criticised his police interview as ‘woke nonsense’ Credit: Elliott Franks
Robert Jenrick, of Reform UK, said: “There is no law against blasphemy in our country, and the dress codes of terror groups like Hamas are not immune from mockery.
“The public is rightly angry that the police never seem to have the time to help with crimes like burglaries or thefts, but waste time on nonsense like this. The CPS must immediately drop this case, and the chief constable needs to explain why he thought a months-long probe was a good use of his officers’ time.”
Mr Mitchell described his police interview as “woke nonsense”, saying: “Nobody has a right not to be offended in this country. It’s free speech. It is not a hate crime.
“Criminally charged over a tea towel comment – that is absolutely crazy, and that should scare everybody.”
A spokesman for Surrey Police said: “We received a report of a hate crime, and an investigation is under way.”
Dr Nick Barratt, the chief student officer at Royal Holloway, University of London, said: “Following a formal complaint from a student who described being targeted with a comment from another student they found discriminatory and distressing – and which was reported to the police as a hate crime – the university was obliged to follow its established conduct procedures.
“The student at the centre of the conduct process has not denied the behaviour that was under investigation. No formal complaint has been made against the reporting student, and no evidence has been provided to support one, but we are clear that any such allegation would also be investigated.
“This case is about addressing conduct that was found to be harassment. For us, that means defending every student’s right to a university experience free from discrimination.
“We respect the court process, and welcome the opportunity to demonstrate that our actions were in line with our duty to protect students from harassment and discrimination.”
Thoughts?
This case really makes the double standard impossible to hide. I know I was harassed on campus for protesting ICE and other topics today popular with the left, but not popular under Obama. Maybe you have a similar experience? Maybe you also are glad the University didn’t get involved in student affairs?
A second of resarch into Huda El-Jamal pulls her LinkedIn, where she repeatedly receives praise for promoting resistence, aka promoting violence. The University, knowing their student promotes violence, has not handled it. One anon commenter refers to Mitchell as a caveman and says Huda is “superior,” because, again, we know which side actually refers to itself as superior. [See notes above on what the keeffiyeh really is. Yes, it represents resistence… just “PLO resistence” though. Like blowing up Sbarro and nightclub lines. That sort of resistence.]
The next link to come up was a substack by Hebh Jamal. Hebh has a similar vibe to Huda. On Hebh’s blog, she rants about Jewish supremacy and, I'm not exagerating, tries to connect her son vomitting from drinking too much chocolate milk to her jewish scapegoat. Yes, her son vomitting is apparently Israel's fault. Hebh’s bio has a picture boasting, "I don't clarify that I'm not anti-semetic when I'm talking about the West Bank and Gaza."
Basically, “Ugh why do those Jews keep calling me antisemetic? I’m totally semetic!”
Jamal and Jamal: Jews are well aware that being repeatedly accused of being bigots does not phase you. It should. We know, we know, you’re just so used to it.
As usual, the self-described anti-censorship crowd that’s adopted the “Free Palestine” rhetoric is nowhere to be found. They were shouting when Australia responds to the globalized intifada leading to a Bondi beach massacre, but silent when the target is someone who offends their sacred movement, known for resistence things like throwing rocks, or breaking the spine of a security guard, or suicide bombing a Jerusalem Sbarro. Just like the ‘antizionism not antisemitism’ farce is questioned by this incident, the “free speech” crowd is also worth questioning.
At the end of the day, one side has open permission to intimidate and knows it. They mock the UK over it. And thank G-d they’re yet again losing the bigger wars they started, because Jews are losing the ability to fight back in civil debate
Note 5: Absolutely no surprise which of the two in this story is pictured near a UK flag. Or which publicly stood up for Iranian freedom, while presumably the other denounced a war on IRGC as imperialism.
