Lib Dem mayor forced to resign for sharing Israeli 'false flag' ambulance attack posts
Lib Dem mayor forced to resign for sharing Israeli 'false flag' ambulance attack posts
Lib Dem mayor forced to resign for sharing Israeli 'false flag' ambulance attack posts
Bharat Pankhania, until Tuesday the mayor of Bath, has also resigned as a Lib Dem councillor
The mayor of the British city of Bath has been forced to resign for sharing social media posts suggesting that the arson attack last week on Jewish charity-owned ambulances in London was a false flag.
He shared posts on his personal X account last week, describing the attack as an Israeli false flag operation, as well as posts saying it was an insurance fraud.
The Metropolitan Police is investigating the arson attack, which saw four ambulances owned by the Jewish charity Hatzola set ablaze in the car park of Machzike Hadath Synagogue in north London’s Golders Green area last Monday.
Last week two British suspects, aged 47 and 45, were arrested over the incident and released on bail.
An obscure group which called itself Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (Hayi) – The Islamic Movement of the People of the Right Hand – claimed responsibility for the arson attack on Telegram, hours after it happened on Monday morning.
The statement in English included the name “Israel” four times, including one reference to the “Land of Israel” – considered highly unusual for an anti-Zionist Shia group.
“I think there was an initial AI prompt to give an answer in one of the three languages and then it was machine translated into the other two,” Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, an expert on militant groups in Iraq and Syria, told MEE.