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Remember Lauren Booth?

Jul 6, 2020 10:00 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

Remember Lauren Booth? Of course you do. The one who declared that Gaza was the “largest concentration camp in the world” and later was photographed in a well-stocked grocery store in that same “concentration camp”? She’s the dozy bint, or ditzy broad, the sister of Cherie Blair, Q.C., Tony’s wife. While her sister took silk, Lauren Booth took up the Palestinian cause, became a Muslim, traded on that conversion to provide her with a series of well-paid positions in Muslim-related jobs – which for some reason she kept losing nonetheless – as well as becoming the trustee, along with her husband, of a “charity” she co-founded called Peacetrail. Alas for Lauren, she and her husband were then disqualified from holding any trustee positions, after the Charity Commission could not account for about half of Peacetrail’s income.

In 1997, Lauren Booth began writing the column “About Town” for the London Evening Standard. Two years later, she began writing about politics for the New Statesman, continuing there until 2003. She also became a columnist and feature writer for The Mail on Sunday.

The longest Lauren Booth has worked anywhere is four years. There appears, by the way, to be a gap in her resume, between 2003, when she left the New Statesman, and 2006, when she became a presenter on the UK’s Islam Channel. What gives?

In 2006, she appeared as a contestant on a reality show on ITV called I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!. Meanwhile, from 2006 to 2008 she hosted a program called In Focus on that Islam Channel in the UK. She has also began in 2008 to work with Iran’s state-owned Press TV, on a show entitled Between The Headlines. From 2010 to 2012 she also worked on shows called Remember Palestine and Diaspora.

What a whirlwind of different jobs! A journalist at three different newspapers. A TV reality show contestant (once). A presenter on the UK’s Islam Channel, but for only two years before she ws apparently let go. Then, having left that channel, she starts what has been called a “long association” — that is, all of four years — with the Islamic Republic’s Press TV. She presented Remember Palestine — it’s by far her favorite subject — and Diaspora, not the Jewish one, of course, but the “Palestinian” one. Lauren Booth knows that “the Palestinians are the new Jews.” And she wants you to know it, too.

Between 2012 and 2014 there appears to be a blank in her C.V. Oh dear. Even Press TV appears to have lost faith in Lauren Booth, for it let her go in 2012. Why so many disappointments?

Then in 2014, Booth began a job as presenter of her own show on Britain’s new British Muslim  TV: Talking Booth. In 2014, she became a senior producer at Al Jazeera in Doha, but only lasted a few months. My, that was quick. Her “own series” on British Muslim TV began in 2014, and ended, within a few months, still in 2014. And then so did her second job that year, at Al Jazeera in Doha, where she apparently didn’t come up to snuff, for she was let go only several months after landing the job.

Booth visited Gaza in 2008 and said that it was “the largest concentration camp in the world today,” but photos of her in a sumptuously appointed Gaza grocery painted a quite different picture. While she was in Gaza, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya gave her a Palestinian VIP passport. She went back to Gaza the next year as part of the Viva Palestina “aid convoy” that was set up by the British Leftist George Galloway. She has been back several times since then.

Meanwhile, in 2010, Booth converted. On October 23, 2010 she appeared, hijabbed, on the Islam Channel’s Global Peace and Unity event, and said: “My name is Lauren Booth, and I am a Muslim.” She said she had converted because of her experiences in Palestine. In June 2011, became a patron of Cageprisoners, but this arrangement ended in 2015. The reason why is unclear. Did she fall, or was she pushed? Something not quite right about all these jobs and positions held so briefly.

Booth and her husband Sohale Ahmed, the chief executive of Peacetrail, were disqualified by Britain’s Charity Commission from holding any trustee positions; this was the result of the Commission’s inability to account for about half of their organization’s income.

That’s a bit worrisome. What might have been the problem? Is it just possible that Booth and Ahmed had something to do with the missing money?

We get the picture.

No further questions, m’lud.

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  1. Igor Slamoff says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 10:19 am

    If she has a British and a Palestinian passport, that makes her a dual national, so her British citizenship can be rescinded.

    • maria says

      Jul 7, 2020 at 10:55 am

      Absolutely. She hated Israe land the Jews calling Israel “sh…y little country and Jews were “monsters”
      She is rabiate antisemite and should stay in MENA countries for evr

  2. Phil Copson says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 10:42 am

    This what happens with “booths” – you hand over your money, but you never know what happens to it….

  3. Jayell says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 11:16 am

    Lauren Booth’s father, Anthony Booth, played Alf Garnett’s long-haired layabout socialist son-in-law in ‘Til Death Us Part’ on BBC TV in the 1960’s and 1970’s. If that was a classic piece of type-casting, you can see where Lauren got it from..

    • Chistopher Watson says

      Jul 6, 2020 at 1:57 pm

      Of course the BBC now cannot show it due to our topsy-turvy politics. The ‘left’ think that it’s ‘right’ wing whereas in fact it was one of the most ‘left-wing’ comedies ever. But then the ‘left’ never was gifted with much intelligence. Where do they think Lauren and Claire got their politics from?

    • JMB says

      Jul 6, 2020 at 6:40 pm

      Is this the same Laura who was the wife of a former British Prime Minister? (This could explain an awful lot of what is wrong with (once) Great Britain today)

      • maria says

        Jul 7, 2020 at 10:56 am

        Yes of course she is a sister of Blair´s wife

  4. mortimer says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 12:16 pm

    After visiting Gaza, Booth must have applied all the lessons that the Pallies taught her about graft, syphoning, deceptive bookkeeping and victimology. Maybe the prosecutor will offer a deal.

    Even the name of their organization, ‘Peacetrail’, sounds suspicious. The lawyers are renaming it ‘MONEYTRAIL’ at this moment.

    All British politicians and journalists who are suspiciously pro-Islamic should be forensically audited. Charity fraud is one of the lowest rungs on the ladder.

    Booth seems to have converted to Islam to cash in. Her financiers will now drop her as a non-credible spokeswomen.

    The whole cabal should be exposed. Bribery is normative Islam, since it is the last commandment of Mohammed.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Jul 6, 2020 at 10:18 pm

      “Bribery is normative Islam, since it is the last commandment of Mohammed.”

      The last instruction given by Mohammed was to bribe someone? Citation, please.

  5. Dawne Swift says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 1:52 pm

    Charity fraud. Why has this not been publicised in the MSM and what is the charity commission going to actually do about it? It’s theft and she & her husband should be arrested and tried for it.

    • RichardL says

      Jul 6, 2020 at 3:33 pm

      charity fraud is only prosecuted when it is a right-wing charity. Only they tend to be proper charities. The Clinton “Foundation” spent 1 or 2% on charitable things and the rest went to the Clintons. Children and cigars for Billy and Mao costumes for Her Dumpiness.

  6. jewdog says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    Could it be that she’s unstable, like so many converts to Islam, and therefore hard to work with? Just wondering.

  7. AleX says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    #liberalblondidiot

  8. gravenimage says

    Jul 6, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    Remember Lauren Booth?
    ………………

    I’d managed to forget this useful idiot for a while…

    Here’s more stupidity from her:

    “Lauren Booth claims drugs are to blame for terror attacks”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4573290/Lauren-Booth-claims-DRUGS-not-Islam-blame.html

    • john smith says

      Jul 7, 2020 at 8:51 am

      I have never in my life heard such a load of garbage,it’s just unbelievable the crap she’s coming out with. Even the presenter looked totally uncomfortable, just look at his body language.Well spotted gravenimage.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 7, 2020 at 11:27 pm

        Thank you, John. Pious Muslims will say anything to whitewash Islam and lull Infidels into a false sense of security.

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