LONDON: Interesting story of a Israeli Jew who helped Pakistani British inLondon.
A Jewish lawyer who fought and won the case of a British-Pakistani inLondon against a UK newspaper said he took up the case because as a Jew hecould feel what it was like to be discriminated against.
Defamation law specialist Mark Lewis, who is based both in London andSouthern Isarel, told in an interview that as soon as he saw article in *Mailon Sunday *(MoS) by David Rose targeting Pakistani man Wajed Iqbal, linkinghim with pedophiles and sex crimes, he could tell that the Pakistani Muslimhad been stitched up to create a story.
Three weeks ago the Associated Newspaper Limited (ANL) — the publishers ofthe *Daily Mail, Mail Online* and the *Mail on Sunday* — settled £1.2million case with Iqbal after accepting that the allegations made againsthim in an article published in MoS in August 2017 were false and had nobasis in truth.
Iqbal, speaking to *Geo News,* said he had no doubt that David Rose and*MoS* had picked on him because he was a Pakistani and Muslim.
Lewis, a leading lawyer fighting anti-semitism and prejudice, said, “Thewhole thing about Jewish people is that they know what bigotry is like asPakistani Muslims in the UK do.
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I grew up in northern England, like Wajed Iqbal, where my Jewish cousin whohas no Pakistani background was hurled the slur of ‘Paki’ by people when wewere teenagers and mistook his looks Pakistani youth.
Coming from a Jewish background, I know when there is discriminationagainst a particular community. I choose to stand up for the victims ofprejudice.”
By: Murtaza Ali Shah
