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A Muslim woman who received death threats after appearing on a popular British quiz show has won “substantial damages” and received a public apology from a Conservative politician who wrongly accused her of anti-Semitism, her lawyers said on Wednesday.

The team’s mascot was a stuffed toy, a blue octopus, and Gorgianeh was wearing a multicoloured jacket that was navy blue, orange, pink and green.

Jacqueline Foster, who holds the title of baroness as she’s a member of the House of Lords, took to X after the show was broadcast to claim Gorgianeh was wearing the colours of the Palestinian flag and was responsible for the mascot.

Neither observation was true. The colours of the Palestine flag are black, white, green and red. The mascot belonged to the team of four.

Foster described the octopus as one of the most “disgusting anti-Semitic symbols” and called for Gorgianeh to be “expelled” by her university and “arrested” by the police.

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[–] TheLameSauce@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

... What is antisemitic about an octopus?

[–] Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago

The Nazis had some anti-Semitic propaganda posters with a kraken spreading its tentacles over the world.

Its hasn't been a big deal until now and it's mainly used to hit Palestina supporters because octopuses is really common and nobody knows it's a dogwhiste.

If this was ever a legitimate concern from the Jewish community they would have brought it up whenever Hydra is featured in a marvel movie.