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July 5, 2014

Katie Hopkins has been having fun pointing out some of the inconsistencies in Islam this week, much to the politically correct crowd’s disgust.

Katie Hopkins might be known for her controversial Twitter updates, but it seems as though she has taken things one step too far after insulting the entire Muslim faith.

The former Apprentice star, who has been dubbed the most hated woman in Britain, started her anti-Islam crusade earlier this week after followers of the faith began fasting for Ramadan.

Taking to her Twitter page on Sunday, the blonde tweeted: “Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don’t eat – but I don’t blow things up. Religion of peace?”

And over the past few days, the mother-of-three, has continued her disrespective updates including posting several pictures of offensive cakes to try and tempt those choosing to fast.

One cake was in the shape of a pink rifle while another featured the name of the world’s most extreme Islamic terrorist group, Isis, written across it.

“Happy Ramadan to the Muslim militia – another juicy cake to help you break the fast. #merrychristmas,” she captioned the shot, which showed a red, yellow and green cake with the word ISIS written on it.

Among posting other insults, the newspaper columnist added: “New questions being asked at checking. Did you pack this luggage yourself? Can you recite anything from the Quran? Please stand to the side.”



While another added: “Just when I though Katie Hopkins couldn’t get any more disrespectful, she starts on Islam. She’s a nasty piece of work.”

However, clearly not interested in the upset caused, she later took to her account to thanks fans for their support, writing: “Sometimes it takes a woman to man up and tell it like it is.”

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Old July 6th, 2014 #2
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Would this lady be brave enough to also take a few shots at jews?
 
Old November 13th, 2014 #3
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While the Daily Stormer continues to troll Berger, British TV celebrity Katie Hopkins has been having a bit of fun with Twitter as well, only instead of criticizing the Jews, she has been highlighting the hypocrisy of Islam and bashing the Palestinians, the Mail on Sunday Reports.

She has Tweeted:

Will she be arrested for her tweets, or will nothing happen, because she is not being critical of Jews?

She has also been having a bit of fun with the new Ebola Band Aid single, engaging in clear racist attacks on Africans:

Unfortunately Jews are rather conspicuously absent as targets in her tweets, but they do serve to highlight the selective bias in locking some people up for what they say while leaving others like her alone.

Especially when the difference is that she supports Israel.

John Mann – are you going to stop this woman or what???

She is totally hurting people’s feelings!

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Old November 14th, 2014 #4
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Jesus fucking H Christ.
These daily hitter people get more pathetic every day.
We live in a country that has thousands upon thousands of sex cases running free and they want some bird banged up because she is half way on our side.
 
Old November 15th, 2014 #5
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Bradford West MP George Galloway pulled no punches as he spectacularly laid into Katie Hopkins on his PressTV show.

Responding to a viewer question asking who the six-time parliamentarian would have permanently join the probe Philae aboard Comet 67P, Galloway singled out outspoken Sun columnist and former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins, who came under fire when she tweeted controversial comments on the Gaza conflict earlier this week.



Galloway – a polarising figure himself – branded Hopkins ‘the lowest of the low’ in a damning diatribe that has become a trademark of the left-wing firebrand.

‘I agonised about some of my political enemies, but I came down to someone who not everyone in the world will know – and they’re the lucky ones,’ Galloway said.

‘Her name is Katie Hopkins. She’s a columnist on the down-market, sewer rat newspaper The Sun and she’s been getting down and dirty.

‘This week, she tweeted that it was time that Israel started the bombing of the Palestinian people again, and she described the Palestinian people as “rodents burrowing away underneath Israel”.


‘Now it was a very odd choice of words to describe the Palestinians as rodents when she’s a rat-faced f*** herself.’

Galloway than called Hopkins’ political leanings ‘extreme right, righter than Genghis Khan’ and asked why she had not been arrested for ‘inciting hatred’.


A Muslim in the same position, he argued, would ‘already be under arrest’.

Pro-Palestinian Galloway has faced police investigation in the past after he declared Bradford an ‘Israel-free’ zone.
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A British nationalist Muslim in the same position, he argued, would ‘already be under arrest’.
A rat faced f***! I see Gorgous George has recovered from his beating.
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Old January 2nd, 2015 #7
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Default Ukip leader Nigel Farage blasts investigation into Katie Hopkins’ 'racist' Ebola tweet: 'There's no need for police'

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FARAGE says it’s a “waste of time” and that the public should be the ones judging the former Apprentice contestant.


KATIE Hopkins might have sparked outrage following her tweets earlier this week about the Ebola case in Glasgow, but there’s one person who doesn’t think that her tweets should be investigated by the police and that’s Ukip leader Nigel Farage.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for Hopkins to be arrested following her "racist" tweet, but the Ukip leader insisted that it was just Katie being "rude" rather than racist and didn't warrant the police getting involved.

“There’s no need for police intervention, it’s a terrible waste of police time,” Farage reportedly told the Daily Mail.

“If (Katie Hopkins) wants to behave like that then the public can judge her. There will always be people who will be rude about others, but it’s not a police matter.”


Over 7,000 people have now signed the petition following the original target of 3000 signatures.

"I am pleased to say that we have smashed the original 3000 target, but I’m leaving this open as we are garnering unbelievable support by the minute. Thank you to everyone who has signed," James Gilchrist, who started the petition, wrote on December 31.

It was revealed that police are making inquiries following complaints over a Twitter outburst about Ebola from controversial TV personality Katie Hopkins

Hopkins sparked fury when she tweeted about "little sweaty jocks", adding: "Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket."

Her comment came hours after nurse Pauline Cafferkey was diagnosed with the killer disease and transferred to a specialist unit at a hospital in London.



In a separate message, Hopkins tweeted: "Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville?"

Police Scotland have confirmed they are looking into complaints they have received but they did not reveal how many had been made.

Detective Inspector Glyn Roberts said: "We have received a number of complaints regarding remarks made on Twitter. Inquiries are ongoing into the nature of these tweets and to establish any potential criminality.




"Police Scotland will thoroughly investigate any reports of offensive or criminal behaviour online and anyone found to be responsible will be robustly dealt with."

It comes after more than 7000 people signed a petition calling for Hopkins to be arrested for posting a "racist" comment on Twitter.



Horrified Scots took to social media sites and blasted the TV star for her "disgusting" comments after her post emerged online.

And within hours of the post, James Gilchrist from Glasgow had launched a petition calling for Mrs Hopkins to be arrested on the internet.

He said in the petition: "For years, Katie Hopkins has seemingly gotten away with a string of controversial statements, either via main stream media or social media, without punishment.

"Many of these statements are racist or abusive, and are tantamount to bullying.



"Recently, she has attacked the Scottish people on twitter over the Ebola scare in Glasgow, calling them "Sweaty Jocks" and "Sweaty Glaswegians", before questioning the ability of the Scottish NHS.

"Her comments allude to a notion that Scots are not entitled to the correct treatment in London, by saying that "sending us Ebola bombs is just not cricket".

"Our health service is more than capable of dealing with this: however the victim has been sent to London as part of an emergency protocol, the same as ANY British citizen would have been in the event they contract the disease.

"This is an absolute insult to a human being who was selflessly trying to aid others who are suffering from this horrible illness. She has given up her time, and potentially put her life on the line, to assist others in a perilous state, and does not deserve to come back to abhorrence like this."

Mr Gilchrist stated that the comments were also "hurtful and spiteful" to Scots at a time that the people of Scotland were meant to be assured that they were Better Together to remain a part of the UK.
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Old March 31st, 2015 #8
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jewsign Katie Hopkins Accused Of Making Vile Holocaust 'Joke' About Ed Miliband And His Wife Justine

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Katie Hopkins has been accused of stepping up her campaign against Ed Miliband by making a Holocaust “joke” about his wife Justine.

The Sun columnist last week drew lines in the sand by vowing to leave the UK if the Labour leader, whose parents were refugees from the Holocaust, wins the General Election.
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Old April 16th, 2015 #9
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Post Katy Hopkins on "White Up -- Don't Take The Color Out of Britain"

If I blacked up to to get the young white vote out in Rochdale, how would that go down?

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@KTHopkins they would still hate u :)

@KTHopkins honestly? It would get people talking about it and eventually it would work. Disenfranchised people don't vote.

@KTHopkins If it's ok for them to whiten up I guess it's ok for us to start using the "N" word again.

@KTHopkins This has nothing to do with Rochdale so get off your soapbox. Have you even been to Rochdale anyway?

@KTHopkins @FJ618 but Kate, you have white privilege, you just have to accept what ever shit any other race does, coz you R evil & 2 blame

@KTHopkins You should try being me and going through French customs I wear elasticised trousers now for travelling #Sikh

@KTHopkins what an idiot he is for even agreeing to be in an advert like this.

@KTHopkins You couldn't possibly be hated anymore than you currently are

@KTHopkins @BigLeBowenski no one would be surprised at you 'going down' love. no one.

@KTHopkins they forget the indigenous pop as msm keeps most indoctrinated and trained to hate their whiteness their own culture

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She's not on our political wavelength and has never claimed to be, but I do like Katie. She's one of the great women of the South West. She speaks her mind and doesn't give a fuck.
 
Old April 18th, 2015 #11
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Default Katie Hopkins compares migrants to 'cockroaches' and suggests using gunships to stop them crossing the Mediterranean

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Old April 18th, 2015 #13
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I like her, she's a feisty one.
And boy howdy does she know how to start a shitstorm!
And when she does, she stands and fights, unlike most lefties who whine and cry or run and hide.
 
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Watch her tear the Reds a new one. They tried shouting over her like they do, but Katie was taking no shit from any of them.

 
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Post ?I Don't Care if Migrants Die? Writes British Woman, White Genocide Police Go on the Attack



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April 19, 2015

Journalist and television personality, Katie Hopkins, has unleashed a torrent of liberal hatred by daring to write about how she cares more for actual Britons than she does for invading non-White waste.

Writing in her column in The Sun, the controversial 40-year-old admitted that her concerns lay exclusively with her own people than the non-White human garbage drowning out at sea in their sleazy efforts to invade England.

She even had the fortitude of her convictions to state publicly that she would not even be moved by the sight of “coffins and bodies floating in the water.” She stated that instead her sympathies lie exclusively with the British lorry drivers, who assumedly are suffering as a result of White genocide.

Her comments come at a time when the hand of God has intervened to prevent these future scammers, thieves, rapists and killers from picking over the bones of the once great Island nation of Britannia. Thanks to the almighty’s intervention, instead of occupying luxury housing while old age Briton pensioners and ex-servicemen who pay for their upkeep languish in squalid rat-infested hovels, some 400 dirty refos found themselves drowned amongst the sea shells off the coast of Libya.

Of course, you cannot make that kind of statement in the Soviet Republic of Britainstan without swift and searing condemnation from the PC bureau.

Arch anti-White nonce Piers Morgan soon hopped onto his Twitter account — apparently the latest medium for issuing public statements — with a somewhat flagging rebuttal. It’s as though the old dish rag just cannot muster the appropriate energy anymore, Tweeting simply, “Causing outrage through racism/homophobia/bigotry is very different to expressing provocative opinion.”

This was followed up by raving faggot and walking blubber factory Matt Lucas, star of the remarkably vile and unfunny Little Britain. He Tweeted, “Having read her latest article, it’s hard to think of anything left for Katie Hopkins to do now, other than just kill some people.”

On balance, I'd prefer to turn a gunship on @KTHopkins. http://t.co/P9nuHyYICT

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2015

Having read her latest article, it’s hard to think of anything left for Katie Hopkins to do now, other than to just kill some people.

— Matt Lucas (@RealMattLucas) April 18, 2015

.@KTHopkins to write about immigrants so hatefully you cannot love yourself. Come back to humanity, you must be shattered.

— Russell Brand (@rustyrockets) April 17, 2015

His remark was probably better suited to describing the hordes of Arabs, Indians, Pakistanis and Africans that keep Britain’s penal system flourishing, but who failed to make it onto British soil.

As a nod to Australia’s no-crap policy to human debris that believe it’s their right to enter illegally and then suck up welfare benefits, Katie added the UK should “get Australian” and “threaten them with violence till they bugger off.”

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Do we really think what she writes are her opinions ? And whether she actually believes what she days?

Wonder who's pulling her strings ?...
 
Old April 21st, 2015 #17
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The columnist labelled refugees 'cockroaches' in her piece for the tabloid



Katie Hopkins and the editor of The Sun, David Dinsmore, have been reported to the Metropolitan police for incitement to racial hatred.

It follows the publication of a column by Hopkins in the tabloid on 17 April, in which she described migrants desperate to reach Britain following humanitarian disasters in their own countries as “cockroaches” and suggested the government deploy “gunships” to stop them landing on shore.

The complaint was made by the Society of Black Lawyers directly to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners Office, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, at 4.05pm on 20 April.

It reads:

Dear Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe,

I hope this email finds you well. You will recall that I was an independent member of the Metropolitan Police Authority (2000 to 2008) and Vice Chair for a period of two years during part of your earlier career at the MPS.

As former Chair of the MPS Hate Crime Forum we did on occasions report incidents of incitement to racial hatred directly to the Commissioners Office for urgent action. More recently as SBL we have done so with anti-Semitic and/or racist comments in the football arena.

The recent comments by the Sun journalist Katie Hopkins, authorised for publication by her Editor and senior staff, are sadly some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years. These comments comparing the African migrants fleeing Libya to “cockroaches” , almost certainly all “trafficked” persons facing intimidation, violence and extortion at the point of departure represent some of the most vulnerable people in international law at the present time. Many will have legitimate claims for asylum under the 1951 Geneva Convention.


The use of this term employs a word used with devastating results to describe the Tutsi minority and Hutu moderates during the 1994 Rwanda genocide when they were referred to by those responsible for the genocide as “cockroaches”. This fact is well known to journalists and is a matter of historical record proved by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in several judgments.

The Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) therefore requests that this matter is investigated as a matter of urgency under the Public Order Act 1986. I am aware that this section requires some intention but given the scale of the tragedy currently unfolding, the likelihood some some of these migrants may already be in the UK having fled during previous months or likely to land here in due course these comments can amount to incitement to racial hatred.

We are in the process of writing formally to the International Criminal Court to petition for an investigation into these comments under the provisions of incitement to commit crimes against humanity.

Given the huge circulation of these comments in the Sun and in the media generally, the propensity for racial violence against people of African descent in the UK is obvious. We request that these matters be investigated as a matter of urgency and the case file be passed to the CPS for a decision to be made as to the merits of a prosecution.

We will submit a more detailed letter in the course of this evening but would request that your office makes a public statement about the need to avoid such comments being made by any in the media whilst this matter is the subject of a criminal investigation.

Our complaint is against the journalist herself, the Editor of the Sun newspaper and other editorial staff involved in the publication of this commentary. We would request that you obtain a transcript of her interview that we understand was conducted on LBC radio on Sunday morning, 19th April 2015.

The journalist concerned sought to justify her comments in that radio interview so may provide evidence of her state of mind.

Yours sincerely,

Peter

D. Peter Herbert O.B.E.

Chair Society of Black Lawyers

Hopkins declined to comment on the allegations.

A spokesperson for the newspaper said: “The Sun has not received any communication from either the Met or the ICC.”

The complaint follows a similar report made about Hopkins to Greater Manchester Police by Labour MP Simon Danczuk in March.



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Peter Herbert says The Sun's legal team should have known better

The Society of Black Lawyers (SBL) will report any barrister or solicitor who authorised Katie Hopkins' latest controversial Sun column, in which she compared migrants to 'cockroaches', to their respective regulators.

Speaking to Solicitors Journal, chair of the SBL, Dr Peter Herbert OBE, said it was 'high time' the 'Incitement Law' under section 19 of the Public Order Act 1986 was enforced and, even if it did not result in a prosecution, the fact that there was an investigation and a potential arrest would regulate journalists far better than any 'moral exultation'.

'At the same time,' he continued, 'we're going to write a very detailed letter to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with a view to reporting her and the editor, and one of the things we will consider is, if we find that any barrister or solicitor has authorised [the article] we will make a formal complaint to the Bar Council/SRA. Our net is to catch those people who have a professional responsibility to make sure offence is not caused.'

Herbert reported Hopkins and the editor of The Sun to the police after the tabloid columnist described migrants fleeing to Britain as 'cockroaches' in her latest offering to media mogul Rupert Murdoch's flagship tabloid title.

In his letter, sent directly to the Metropolitan Police Commissioners Office yesterday and first appearing in The Independent, Herbert described Hopkins' depiction of migrants as 'sadly some of the most offensive, xenophobic and racist comments I have read in a British newspaper for some years'.

When asked about Hopkins' right to exercise free speech, Herbert said the Celebrity Big Brother contestant was an opportunist who knew very well what the limitations were, but didn't care.

'This is a Sarah Palin type character who really couldn't care less. Obviously the people who do know better are The Sun and their lawyers who must have proof read [the column] before it went out. There is, I suppose, a very cynical view that actually, in the current climate of UKIP etcetera, we can say what we like about migrants and there will be no comeback or very little.'

Herbert said there was an 'appalling level of support' for migrants in the public domain, and that pre-existing soft racism and xenophobia is being tapped into and given life by UKIP and others. He also added that the issue of settlement and that of Britain's obligation under the 1951 Geneva convention were being conflated.

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In the letter to the police, Herbert wrote: 'These comments comparing the African migrants fleeing Libya to "cockroaches", almost certainly all "trafficked" persons facing intimidation, violence and extortion at the point of departure represent some of the most vulnerable people in international law at the present time. Many will have legitimate claims for asylum under the 1951 Geneva convention.'

Herbert continued: 'The use of this term employs a wor

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An online petition calling on the Sun to sack Katie Hopkins as a columnist had more than 200,000 signatures on Monday after she said gunships should be used to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean, prompting more than 100 complaints to the press regulator.

Her latest Sun column, in which she compared migrants to “cockroaches”, was published hours before the weekend capsizing of a fishing vessel packed with migrants, with the latest reports suggesting the death toll could reach 950.

Ipso has received over 100 complaints since Saturday about the article. The Sun now has 28 days to put its case to the press regulator and then Ipso will rule on whether the column breached an editor’s code that bans the use of racial generalisations among other things. The ruling will take up to a month after the Sun’s response.

The most relevant parts of the Ipso editors’ code of practice are likely to be clause one on accuracy and clause 12 on discrimination.

Hopkins, a one-time contestant on BBC1’s The Apprentice and a frequent source of controversy, found herself under attack from listeners during a guest slot presenting on Global Radio-owned talk station LBC on Sunday.

The petition on Change.org calls on the Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, to “remove Katie Hopkins as a columnist”. By Monday evening it had passed its initial target of 200,000 signatures.

Hopkins wrote in the Sun on Friday: “No, I don’t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.

“Because in the next minute you’ll show me pictures of aggressive young men at Calais, spreading like norovirus on a cruise ship … These two populations are the same. The migrants harassing Brit truckers at the port are the same as the vagrants making the perilous trip across the Med.”

Headlined “Rescue boats? I’d use gunships to stop migrants”, Hopkins said: “What we need are gunships sending these boats back to their own country. You want to make a better life for yourself? Then you had better get creative in Northern Africa.”

She added: “Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit ‘Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984’, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors.”

Presenting a two-hour show on LBC on Sunday, Hopkins was challenged about the article in the wake of the capsizing of the fishing vessel just outside Libyan waters, the latest instance in Europe’s worsening migrant crisis.

One caller, Ronke from Greenwich, said Hopkins was “selling a completely false rhetoric to the nation” which was “disappointing and dangerous, really upsetting”.

When the caller said the solution was to go back to the governments of the countries where the migrants were coming from and “figure out what is going on in the first place”, Hopkins said: “I’m going to shut you down there because to be honest it’s boring the life out of me.

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The UN’s human rights chief has attacked the Sun newspaper for publishing an article by columnist Katie Hopkins, branding her use of the word “cockroaches” to describe migrants as reminiscent of anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda.

In a scathing and extraordinary intervention, the UN high commissioner for human rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, points out that the word “cockroaches” was used by both the Nazis and those behind the genocide in Rwanda, and urges the UK government, media and regulators to respect national and international laws on curbing incitement to hatred.

“The Nazi media described people their masters wanted to eliminate as rats and cockroaches,” said Zeid.

“This type of language is clearly inflammatory and unacceptable, especially in a national newspaper. The Sun’s editors took an editorial decision to publish this article, and – if it is found in breach of the law – should be held responsible along with the author.”

But such language, he added, was typical of “decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion” when it came to the reporting of migrant and refugee issues in the British media.

On 17 April, Hopkins – a columnist for the Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper – wrote that she was resolutely unmoved by the plight of those risking their lives by crossing the Mediterranean.

Hopkins, a former contestant on the BBC1 show The Apprentice, and perennial courter of controversy, wrote: “No, I don’t care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don’t care.”

Hopkins added: “Make no mistake, these migrants are like cockroaches. They might look a bit ‘Bob Geldof’s Ethiopia circa 1984’, but they are built to survive a nuclear bomb. They are survivors.”

The column appeared hours before a fishing vessel packed with migrants capsized off the coast of Libya, with the loss of 800 lives.

A spokesperson for the UK industry regulator, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, said: “We can confirm that there have been more than 300 complaints about the article. IPSO is investigating whether the piece breaches the Editors’ Code and will publish its findings in due course. While this process continues, it would not be right to provide a detailed response on the investigation or the broader issues it raises.”

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Katie Hopkins airs her views on Mediterranean migrants during an LBC radio show on Monday

Zeid said Hopkins’ column was far from an isolated incident, accusing the British tabloid press of consistently attacking and vilifying migrants.

“This vicious verbal assault on migrants and asylum seekers in the UK tabloid press has continued unchallenged under the law for far too long,” he said.

“I am an unswerving advocate of freedom of expression, which is guaranteed under Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), but it is no

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