{
  "id": 12477143,
  "title": "Green member behind Zionism motion named as 'close friend' of jailed al-Qaeda supporter in court",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/green-member-behind-zionism-motion-named-as-close-friend-of-jailed-al",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-06T21:41:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "BBC News",
    "slug": "bbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckm23709pjz7o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Lubna Speitan, a British-Palestinian artist and member of the Green Party, has been identified in court documents as a close friend of Minh Quang Pham, an individual jailed for allegedly plotting a suicide bomb attack at Heathrow Airport. Speitan proposed a Green conference motion in 2015, which declared Zionism to be a form of racism. The court documents from that year also revealed that Speitan offered to testify as a defense witness in Pham's trial. Pham, a Vietnamese-born British national, was sentenced to 40 years in prison in the US after pleading guilty to supporting al-Qaeda. Speitan, who had a medical condition that prevented her from testifying in person, described Pham as one of the kindest, honest, and most sincere people she had ever known. The Green Party has stated that Speitan holds no official positions and takes allegations of this nature seriously.",
  "summary": "Lubna Speitan offered to testify on behalf of Minh Quang Pham, who was jailed for 40 years after a Heathrow bomb plot investigation.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}